I second what Dan S said about gedit.... just looked it up and the plugin is called "Sced" and it is installed on puredyne (9.11 atleast).
That being said, I have to point out that you said you were "ready to try" on Linux. I understand the frustration, but if you are ready to give up after not being able to understand vim your first try, you won't last long =) What was the error message in JACK? Copy/paste the error from the window message... Did you have "firewire" selected as your driver? Also... reading this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=740385) doesn't make your situation look very good. This was posted in June 2009 so it may be different now, but it looks like a hassle setting this card up in Linux. That being said post the Jack error and make sure "firewire" driver is selected. Tyler On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dan S <[email protected]<danstowell%[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi Axel (or John?) - > > > 2011/1/3 John Schmitt <[email protected]>: > > 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. > > Yeah I know - I was on Apple for years, but I'm really getting to the > point of being embarrassed to still have some Apple equipment. > > > > 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. > > I don't know much about firewire interfaces I'm afraid since I don't > have fw here - but check the archives, there's been some useful > conversation about getting fw audio working nicely. e.g. > http://lists.goto10.org/pipermail/puredyne/2010-April/003661.html > > But it's really worth saying what the error message *was* - someone > might understand it and know what to suggest. > > > 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 ;-)) > > Well both vim and emacs are genuinely very good, but neither of them > is immediately obvious since they use keyboard commands that won't be > familiar to people at first. For example, your vim issue was probably > that you didn't know that you press 'i' to go into insert mode > (allowing you to type text) and Escape to go out of insert mode. Vim > and emacs are the choice of many power-users - you can take that to > mean either that they're probably worth learning, or maybe they're > just geeky enough to earn geek cred ;) > > If you want a text editor that's more like the msword-type mainstream, > look at gedit. It's nice, and it also has a supercollider "mode", so > it might be right up your street. Personally I use scvim so I don't > know the exact details in gedit, but you do something like choose the > supercollider plugin once you've started gedit. (In puredyne it should > be installed already) > > HTH > Dan > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > http://www.mcld.co.uk > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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