you might be better of he cosy arms of corporation ! vi is one of the most powerful editor ~ you better start leaning it now if you want to play in linux puredyne would work perfectly for what you want to do - you just need a ounce more of patience and some time aside for learning time.
for sc - you have to make sure jack work for jack to work, you have to make sure alsa is not taking over your sound card (alsamixer is your friend there) It's also easier to get help in the different forum about different software - there are a lot of online help for jack and sc and vim ~ I can help you get started if you are willing to give it a try ;) On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:36 AM, John Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > after years and years of music making on Windows and MacOS I'm ready to try > it on Linux, mainly because Apple is starting to annoy me as much as > Microsoft did before I switched. > > Anyway, here's what I want to do: > > I'd like to use my laptop as a low latency live audio processing environment > (Supercollider, maybe in combination with Ardour which I haven't tried yet > but which looks nice for mixing) > > I'd like to control SC (and Ardour) through a midi/usb interface and > possibly over wifi using OSC. > > Here's what I got: > > - a Thinkpad T42. > - a Dawicontrol dw-1394 pcmcia firewire card with TI chipset (no info about > this stuff on the net). > - an Echo Audiofire 4 Audiocard with midi interface (described as fully > supported on the ffado list). > - an Akai LPD8 midi over usb interface > - an iPod touch > - a Wiimote > > I've downloaded the latest Puredyne live cd, connected and turned on my > Firewire interface and booted the T42. I started Jack which gave me an error > starting up. In the configuration page there was a pulldown device list with > some strange names. Then I opened SC vim and I didn't even manage to type > "{SinOsc.ar}.play" > It was pure frustration. I didn't understand a thing. I heard, Emacs is even > harder to learn. WTF???? Is there a decent text editor for Linux? > (intentional polemic ;-)) > > My questions: > > - Is there a chance I can do what I want with Puredyne or should I just give > up and go back into the cozy arms of corporatism? > - If the answer to the first question is yes, can someone give me some clues > as to how to achieve it? > - Is there a text editor that's actually usable with SC? > - If yes, how???? > > Thanks a lot in advance, > Axel > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
