Re: [Rosegarden-user] MIDI CC -- how to add ruler for ones list?

2019-03-16 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 4:56 PM Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > How can I add a ruler for an arbitrary CC# -- for instance, I am sending > > MIDI to an external sample player that has CC#2 available for playing an > > ornamented note. How can I send this from Rosegarden (aside from using > > Event Edi

[Rosegarden-user] MIDI CC -- how to add ruler for ones list?

2019-03-16 Thread Brett McCoy
In the "Add Control Ruler" menu in the Matrix Editor, there are only these CCs listed 10 Pan 93 Chorus 7 Volume 91 Reverb 64 Sustain 11 Expression 1 Modulation How can I add a ruler for an arbitrary CC# -- for instance, I am sending MIDI to an external sample player that has CC#2 available for pl

Re: [Rosegarden-user] USB/Midi

2013-03-01 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Johan Vromans wrote: > Do we have a list of USB/Midi interfaces that work well with Linux and > Rosegarden? Best place to start is here: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com ---

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tying two notes across a barline

2013-02-27 Thread Brett McCoy
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:27 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 02/27/2013 09:03 AM, Jaap Winius wrote: > >> But, selecting these two notes first seems not to be possible. > > I can't even compile 10.04, so there is no way for me to confirm or deny > whether it had a strange selection bug. There

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tying two notes across a barline

2013-02-27 Thread Brett McCoy
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Jaap Winius wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:48:24 -0500, Brett McCoy wrote: > >> I don't know the answer to your issue, but I will recommend upgrading to >> the latest version of Rosegarden ... > > So, do you think this may not eve

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Tying two notes across a barline

2013-02-27 Thread Brett McCoy
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Jaap Winius wrote: > My setup consists of Rosegarden 10.04.2 running on Linux (Debian squeeze). I don't know the answer to your issue, but I will recommend upgrading to the latest version of Rosegarden before continuing and possibly your version of Debian, Rosega

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden friendly distros

2013-02-26 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Thomas Sattler wrote: >> Ubuntu Studio 3? Must have been a very old version > > Uh no, that's not what he wrote. He wrote that he tried Ubuntu Studio, > and he tried it three separate times. If I read it correctly. Yep, you're right, I misread it. -- Bret

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden friendly distros

2013-02-26 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:46 AM, David Tisdell wrote: > I am glad to hear that the networking problem seems unusual. I tried > UbuntuStudio 3 separate times and had networking issues every time which > didn't exist with the same version of regular Ubuntu. That experience > steered me away from Ub

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden friendly distros

2013-02-25 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:13 AM, David Tisdell wrote: > I have tried Ubuntustudio before but have had lots of issues with > networking. Seems like there are few if any network drivers enabled in the > Ubuntustudio Kernel. This is why I installed straight Ubuntu and added the > music programs I us

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Audio Distros

2013-02-21 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:31 AM, David Tisdell wrote: > I use Rosegarden to teach composition to middle school students. For a long > time, I used Studio64 but it wasn't being updated and I was running into > driver issues on new hardware installations. In August, I installed XUbuntu > and added

Re: [Rosegarden-user] clicking piano roll doesn't send any midi events anymore

2013-01-04 Thread Brett McCoy
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:42 PM, si...@mindsnack.net wrote: > I was using rosegarden for years now, and liked the feature, that you could > click on a note of the > piano roll in the matrix editor, and hear that note over a midi device. Or > the same for using the pc- > keyboard as a piano-keyboar

Re: [Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 12.12 RELEASED

2012-12-12 Thread Brett McCoy
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 10/12/12 21:07, Brett McCoy wrote: >> I've seen that and they generalyl sound OK, but it has very few >> articulations and next to nothing for chromatic samples (they say to >> use pitch bending to get

Re: [Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 12.12 RELEASED

2012-12-10 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:13 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 12/10/2012 01:48 PM, Henry W. Peters wrote: > >> I just downloaded 12.12 from SVN. Installed it... An "upgrade" from >> previous version, & voila, RG won't recognize my midi/audio device... >> Qjackctl does... (& it (RG) did before)

Re: [Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 12.12 RELEASED

2012-12-10 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Holger Marzen wrote: > You can find the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra at > http://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/download.html I've seen that and they generalyl sound OK, but it has very few articulations and next to nothing for chromatic samples (they say to use pitch

Re: [Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 12.12 RELEASED

2012-12-10 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Holger Marzen wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Brett McCoy wrote: > >> Just for fun, here's a little musical score I developed this weekend >> for an animated trailer (still in production)... composed with >> Lilypond, sequenced with Ros

Re: [Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 12.12 RELEASED

2012-12-10 Thread Brett McCoy
Symphonic Orchestra (hosted on a Windows machine with Reaper) https://soundcloud.com/brett-mccoy/pied-piper-trailer/s-RtqBC I used latest SVN trunk for this, BTW. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:39 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > == ROSEGARDEN 12.12, codename "Glenfiddich" RELEASED == &

Re: [Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 12.12 RELEASED

2012-12-10 Thread Brett McCoy
Great stuff! I've been using SVN trunk for a while, stability has been much improved! On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:39 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > == ROSEGARDEN 12.12, codename "Glenfiddich" RELEASED == > > The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 12.12 of > Rosega

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crescendo/Decrescendo on audio tracks?

2012-12-07 Thread Brett McCoy
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Holger Marzen wrote: > with MIDI-tracks there is no problem doing some automation with e.g. > volume control messages. Can I automate the volume of audio tracks > (fade-in, fade-out) with Rosegarden? Maybe with MIDI-capable plugins? I don't think Rosegarden suppo

Re: [Rosegarden-user] New version?

2012-11-29 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, david wrote: >>> What is the latest stable version, anyway? I haven't done a MIDI export >>> for quite awhile. >> >> 12.04 -- "Freedom" > > Thanks, that's what I have. Is the export fixed in svn version, I wonder? I haven't updated svn in a looong time -- B

Re: [Rosegarden-user] New version?

2012-11-29 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:43 PM, david wrote: > On 11/29/2012 05:49 AM, dusthillresid...@netscape.net wrote: >> Hi guys, I was wondering if you had any plans for releasing a new >> version soon. The latest stable version has broken midi export, and >> midi export is perhaps the most important fea

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Default to "fixed" for old documents

2012-05-22 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:58 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Monday, May 21, 2012, Brett McCoy wrote: > I'm thinking the idea is you'd set up your default studio however is > appropriate for your rig, and everything you do from that point on would have > sensible

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Default to "fixed" for old documents

2012-05-21 Thread Brett McCoy
Thanks! I can give the new code a quick test tomorrow, I think. A global "set channels to fixed" would be a good thing to have... imagine having 30 channels of orchestra (I've some pretty big pieces that were this big) and having to change each one! On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM, D. Michael McI

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Sequencing problems with 12.04

2012-05-21 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Brett McCoy wrote: >> You can probably get rolling again by going in and changing a lot of stuff >> over from "auto" to "fixed" in the instrument parameters boxes. > > Ah, didn't think about the new dynamic stuff (it

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Sequencing problems with 12.04

2012-05-21 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:46 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Sunday, May 20, 2012, Brett McCoy wrote: > >> ...After the upgrade, I started getting strange sequencing issues, some >> tracks seemed to be sending MIDI but nothing was playing back > > The most likely

[Rosegarden-user] Sequencing problems with 12.04

2012-05-20 Thread Brett McCoy
I upgraded Rosegarden tonight because it kept crashing when I tried to add expression data (CC11) :-( Unfortunately, after the upgrade, I started getting strange sequencing issues, some tracks seemed to be sending MIDI but nothing was playing back (maybe corrupted data???), other times all tracks w

Re: [Rosegarden-user] [Rosegarden-devel] Fwd: Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-14 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Chris Cannam wrote: > On 13 May 2012 23:56, Cláudio Pinheiro wrote: >> Rosegarden needs broad visibility by potential users, so it can generate a >> critical mass that would attract developers that would maintain a sustained >> growth and (even) better codebase an

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-10 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Holger Marzen wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2012, Richard Bown wrote: > >> Ok so a quick trawl of emails turned up some names perhaps that could >> contribute to new website/direction/developments. >> >> Just to say that this is just a quick scan and I may have missed

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:31 AM, David Tisdell wrote: > I agree on the "More bang for the buck" on a Windows port but JACK already > runs on OS X as do some JACK aware apps. Percentage  of the user base wise, > the Mac has historically more people creating content (Don't know if that is > true to

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, David Tisdell wrote: > Perhaps as a starting point we could "shake the tree" for developers on > Linux audio user lists, wikis, etc. since Linux is the platform of origin. > The core work should begin here and ports created as new features are worked > out. As a m

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Thomas Sattler wrote: >>  Notation can be done with Lilypond, > > Uh ... no, it can't.  Oh, you might be able to enter notes and get sheet > music out of it, but I have never heard of anyone who begins with a finished > composition. *raises hand* I've done many pie

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-07 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:13 PM, david wrote: > I sometimes use the event editor. I never use the matrix editor. I think > RG could profitably get rid of the matrix editor. ;-) As far as MIDI composing goes, the matrix editor is the single most important feature. Notation can be done with Lilypon

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Pitch-bend ruler broken?

2012-02-07 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > This is on version 11.11.42 > The pitch bend ruler in matrix view seems heavily broken. Placing a > point at position in time it gets placed in randomly different places, > deleting points is not awlays possible and doing it erratically dele

Re: [Rosegarden-user] MIDI card for Linux

2012-01-02 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Christopher Howard wrote: > I know this isn't a Linux support forum, but are any of the Linux users > happy with a particular sound card that provides incoming MIDI support? > I have an old CASIO keyboard with standard IN/OUT MIDI ports, and wanted > to try streamin

Re: [Rosegarden-user] My opinions on Rosegarden

2011-12-31 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 5:27 PM, wrote: > Some other things which has changed for the worse are the volume and > pitch bend rulers. It used to be possible to click and drag them > around, select multiple at once and delete them, or right click and > select 'clear ruler'. Now you can't really do

Re: [Rosegarden-user] controlling attack?

2011-12-15 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Christopher Howard wrote: > I'm not much of an expert on MIDI or on Rosegarden yet, but if you'll > humour me... Currently I am working with Rosegarden 11.11 (on Linux) > with FluidSynth and the FluidR3_GM sound font from fluid-soundfont-3.1 > package. There is on

Re: [Rosegarden-user] [Rosegarden-devel] ROSEGARDEN 11.11, codename "Edelweiss" RELEASED

2011-11-05 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:48 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > == ROSEGARDEN 11.11, codename "Edelweiss" RELEASED == > > The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 11.11 of > Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. > A long time in

Re: [Rosegarden-user] post-FAQ problem: selecting instrument

2011-11-02 Thread Brett McCoy
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Christopher Howard wrote: > However, when I go to select an instrument (right clicking on a channel, > or from the Tracks -> Set Instrument menu) it lists only 16 instruments, > and they are all listed only as Acoustic Grand Piano. (Except 10) I can > go into the e

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Ubuntu oneiric 11.10 and kernel v3

2011-10-18 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:34 PM, david wrote: > Abrolag wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:09:32 -1000 > > david wrote: > > > >> And here I think the Unity interface sucks, and much prefer XFCE. You > >> might check out LXDE, it's light but a bit more polished than XFCE. > > > > Another possibili

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Ubuntu oneiric 11.10 and kernel v3

2011-10-18 Thread Brett McCoy
LXDE is very nice and brisk. I have moved over to using that in Ubuntu Studio 11.10 On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Abrolag wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:09:32 -1000 > david wrote: > > > And here I think the Unity interface sucks, and much prefer XFCE. You > > might check out LXDE, it's light

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Ubuntu oneiric 11.10 and kernel v3

2011-10-16 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Ian Gardner wrote: > Unless I'm alone in my experience with previous vanilla kernels and > rosegarden, and you've all been happily using vanilla kernels and rosegarden > together for years, in which case ignore me and carry on as you were :-) > I've never had

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Extra Notes Joining Segments

2011-10-02 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:29 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > I can't repeat it with my current development tree that will become 11.11 > shortly, but then I tried with 10.02 and couldn't repeat it with that either, > so I might not be performing the steps correctly. > > Anyway, you've figured ou

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Berklee Certification

2011-09-26 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Abrolag wrote: > Only had time for a relatively quick skim through so far. There are some > really > nice tracks here. I especially like 'Drowning on Dry Land' Thanks for listening! Rosegarden has been a staple of my composing since the early days of the X11 ver

[Rosegarden-user] Berklee Certification

2011-09-26 Thread Brett McCoy
ndle networked MIDI and ADAT via Lightpipe & S/PDIF for the return audio). I have a good deal of my music from these classes on Soundcloud now: http://soundcloud.com/brett-mccoy -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Quartertones in Rosegarden

2011-08-16 Thread Brett McCoy
. I've ended up having to manually insert pitch bend events into the event editor. Luckily, they are specific values for half-sharp, half-flat, etc. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Brett McCoy wrote: > A rebuild and removal of the conf file fixed the problem > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Quartertones in Rosegarden

2011-08-16 Thread Brett McCoy
A rebuild and removal of the conf file fixed the problem On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:26 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Tuesday, August 16, 2011, Brett McCoy wrote: > >> I think we went through this exercise before... not seeing anything in >> the right-click menu. What el

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Quartertones in Rosegarden

2011-08-16 Thread Brett McCoy
I'll figure something out, thanks! On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:26 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Tuesday, August 16, 2011, Brett McCoy wrote: > >> I think we went through this exercise before... not seeing anything in >> the right-click menu. What else is there in

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Quartertones in Rosegarden

2011-08-16 Thread Brett McCoy
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:31 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: >> How do I invoke the pitch tracker on a segment? > > It's just another editor.  You can open it in an assortment of ways, but one > of them is to right click on the segment, and choose "Open in Pitch Tracker" > from the context menu.

[Rosegarden-user] Quartertones in Rosegarden

2011-08-15 Thread Brett McCoy
Hi, I have a task this week to sequence some Penderecki, which involves lots of quartertones. Can the new pitch tracker be used for this kind of thing? How do I invoke the pitch tracker on a segment? I found the configuration dialog under Preferences but can't find anywhere else to use pitch tracke

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Syncing Rosegarden 11.06 with the Jack Transport

2011-08-06 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Sean Beeson wrote: > It seemed that when I used Rosegarden 1.7.3 I had better luck syncing with > other jack applications. Rosegarden 11.06 seems to not like the Jack > Transport. Perhaps I am missing something. I have scoured the internet and > the user manual and

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Pitchtracker...

2011-05-29 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:56 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: >> How does one invoke the Pitch Tracker in 11.06? I don't see any menu >> options to invoke it... > > It should be in the same places as all the other segment "Open in" options, > called "Open in Pitch Tracker." > > It seems like the op

[Rosegarden-user] Pitchtracker...

2011-05-29 Thread Brett McCoy
How does one invoke the Pitch Tracker in 11.06? I don't see any menu options to invoke it... I found some old documentation on the microtonalism site but it's for the forked version... the menu options illustrated there don't seem to be available in 11.06. Is there a compile-time option I need to s

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Ubuntu 11 + Rosegarden 10

2011-05-29 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:59 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > In general, I suppose it's possible that some problem has developed along the > way, since I am still using an old LTS version of Ubuntu, and haven't upgraded > in a long time.  This does not seem very likely, as Rosegarden is a Qt > a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Question about Fermatas and MIDI

2011-05-25 Thread Brett McCoy
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Darcy Kahle wrote: > I have a question with regard to Fermatas and MIDI.  In Rosegarden, are > Fermatas merely a decoration, or is there no capability for exporting > them to MIDI?  I use Rosegarden mainly to enter the accompaniment for > pieces my Church Choir si

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden crashes other apps and jack when quiting

2011-04-19 Thread Brett McCoy
Rosegarden doesn't crash jack for me, but it always causes xruns. This isn't a big deal, since I am usually not recording or mixing at the same time, but might be something related. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:38 AM, bart deruyter wrote: > Eur... nobody with an idea here? > > http://www.bartart3d.b

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Lilypond - misformatting PDF issue

2011-04-18 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Dave Dozier (Verizon) wrote: > I carefully checked the RG project in which the problem existed (on exactly > one of 7 tracks of that project). Unfortunately, I did not find any extra > rests. I checked the event list; nothing apparent (everything seemed sync'd > a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Lilypond - misformatting PDF issue

2011-04-18 Thread Brett McCoy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Dave Dozier (Verizon) wrote: > I have a multitrack Rosegarden score, for which I want to print the lead, > treble, and bass staffs. Viewing the score notation for these three tracks > works perfectly. However, when I try to preview/print them, what I get is a > si

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Real-time Linux needed?

2011-02-26 Thread Brett McCoy
And like I said earlier, most current mainstream distros (especially the multimedia ones like CCRMA and Ubuntu Studio) have kernels that support this without needing to recompile the kernel. Rosegarden 11.02 + Jack work out of the box on Ubuntu Studio 10.10, for instance. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4

Re: [Rosegarden-user] no sound with timidity

2011-02-25 Thread Brett McCoy
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Stefan Thomas wrote: > Dear community, > since 2 days I hear nothing, when I use the timidity sythesicer in > combination with the rosegarden sequencer. Did you tell Rosegarden to use Timidity under the MIDI Studio settings? As an alternative, you can try using F

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Real-time Linux needed?

2011-02-24 Thread Brett McCoy
There are PPAs also available of you need kernel-rt for Ubuntu, or you can just get the vanilla source and build your own On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:34 PM, steve conrad wrote: > Artist-X comes with a real time kernel and is based on Ubuntu, if you > really want to have Ubuntu and kernel-rt togethe

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Real-time Linux needed?

2011-02-24 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:27 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > Since Ubuntu Studio is no longer shipping with a -rt kernel, you don't have > any sensible options.  If I were you, I would just ignore it and go on. > Ubuntu Studio will sort this kernel business out eventually if they want to > stay

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Real-time Linux needed?

2011-02-24 Thread Brett McCoy
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Ken Resander wrote: > > What is the effect on Rosegarden of not having real-time? > Would it matter for beginners like us? > > Ken > P.S. The PC is an oldish 1.8GHz AMD Athlon with 512MB DRAM that was quite > literally gathering dust until I gave it a last chance

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Fave studio distro

2011-02-18 Thread Brett McCoy
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Dave Serls wrote: >  May I solicit everyone's favorite studio distribution, particularly >  those 'live' USB-stick versions? Pretty happy with Ubuntu Studio here. -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com -