Re: [Rosegarden-user] The post-PCI era

2014-10-30 Thread ram
New PCI motherboards are still available, and many wholesalers have "new old stock" of what were high end, i.e. extreme gaming, motherboards from just a few years ago. Also many, somewhat older, server motherboards have PCI slots. I've found new(ish) high end motherboards to work extremely well

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The post-PCI era

2014-10-30 Thread Nathan Stewart
I always made sure PCI was a precondition for any motherboard I bought. But I finally decided guitars and monitor/mouse/qwerty don't work well together and bought a Zoom R24. I'm still working out my workflow. When writing I tend to use the zoom drum sequencer. Right now I've imported all my tracks

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The post-PCI era

2014-10-30 Thread Abrolag
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:12:05 -0400 "D. Michael McIntyre" wrote: > My computer started flaking out after running like a top for 6-7 years, > and I decided to use that as an excuse to replace it. I bought my first > ever off-the shelf, big box retail machine. The bright side is I put > more gi

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The post-PCI era

2014-10-30 Thread Greg Lyons
It feels weird to type this, but the interest in music-making on Apple iPads has been good for Linux, in the sense that it seems to have driven more manufacturers to provide truly class-compliant USB audio and MIDI interfaces. If you go to a site like https://www.sweetwater.com/shop/ios/, find a d

[Rosegarden-user] The post-PCI era

2014-10-30 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
My computer started flaking out after running like a top for 6-7 years, and I decided to use that as an excuse to replace it. I bought my first ever off-the shelf, big box retail machine. The bright side is I put more gigas in my hertz, and I can boot from USB sticks now. It has a bunch of so