I just thought of this today so it is still purculating. My thought is of musician on a bus, in a hotel room... doesn't have a music system to tote around but maybe a netbook.
The mic is no good... the pre-amp either. But, usb can be carried easy enough... for that matter even a small pre-amp before the internal card works pretty good. While Ardour seems to work just fine on my netbook, even with ubuntu classic up to 4 tracks or so. Still it might be overly complex for musical note taking though if thats what one is used to... Anyway, something to record sound. A sound to midi app. a midi to notation app? That is beyond me unless there is a midi to cord chart ;-) I don't read music so well. I don't know what a key player generally carries... a usb keyboard? A usb sound card and a small midi kb is more likely, but both or either would need the same stuff. A midi recorder and a genmidi sound app. The midi recorder might be a notation editor as well? hydrogen might be useful as a beat box. I have tried using my notebook to do do guitar efx... with a good usb sound box it might sound better but the speed of things seemed to hold it back... the effect is too far behind the guitar. Anyone else had better luck? If jack is already in there (no problems running jack) then with netjack and qjackctl we can remote control ardour from far enough away that the mic doesn't pick up the fan from my desktop. I've looked for a midi controller...nothing in the packages I can find... three bits of software I could find. Xphat looks nice but from 1998 and uses xforms... not sure I need to try keeping that up to date. Rat could do the job with several instances, but not really what I want. there is one called midi controller that would work. Can set up both sliders and rotary knobs. Uses glade for the gui... is that worth my time learning? Still ALSA and not jack though. Anyway, those are 4 uses that might be unique to a laptop/netbook. Quite honestly, the netbooks are great little computers... this is my new "desktop". The desktop is the music computer. I think they cross over enough to be one workflow. Next to put together a list of applications. My last laptop was a 1997 NEC 366... this atom netbook seems like a powerhouse and I think the apps don't have to be barebones. The processing power is not as important as gui use and real estate. Think ease of use on a small screen. I did also think of adding public display stuff like presenter or lyricue for displaying lyrics or something for displaying music/charts for performance. But I think there are already distros (things made for the church end of things) that cater to that and I don't know how mainstream that would be otherwise. Sing along is not as popular as it should be except at Christmas... Anyone think I should keep working on this? Len -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
