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[Fabio FZero]

Hey, I have a home studio too! I tried to use Linux to make music
several times, but while there's definite progress, the best word to
describe the experience is still "painful".

Simple audio editing, multitrack recording and even mastering are easy
enough, but using sequencers and virtual instruments it quite tricky.
There are lots of interesting things that you can do if you're into
weird controllers and glitching up samples (PureData FTW!), but for
"regular" music making the setup time can be so long that you'll
forget what you were trying to do in the first place.

Anyway, as I said, things are getting better (slowly). Meanwhile I
switched from Windows to Mac. I was starting to feel really annoyed
every time I had to leave Linux to make music. On the Mac I have a
*nix environment and some of the good things that were originally
developed for Linux (JackOSX is really brilliant). I also have sox,
lame, flac and ffmpeg to automate some file conversion tasks, so it's
win-win.

I plan to have a netbook running Renoise alongside my main notebook on
future gigs, but I have to wait a bit to do that - after all I'm
moving to Toronto in march.

[]s
FZero

PS: You can check out my productions at www.geradorzero.com - I even
have an EP named #!/bin/bash (http://binbash.geradorzero.com).

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Mr Chris Aitken <caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
<snip>
> Good memory. I actually tried a couple of years ago to get Audacity to work
> with an E-MU 1212 pci card until I finally figured out that the linux driver
> didn't have 'capture'. Then I found that 'capture' means record. So, I had a
> soundcard with which I couldn't record under linux. Aargh! Disgusted and
> nine months late starting a project because I was trying to remain
> Windows-free, I bought a used Windows computer and started using Nuendo. The
> E-MU crapped out and I got an Audiophile 192 which did funny things under
> the used DELL, so I got a used IBM which would run the Audiophile at all, os
> I got an NRV10 firewire mixer.
>
> I try not to use my Windows box for anything but music recording (it's not
> even on the Internet). That's why I'm doing my daughter's .mp3 stuff on the
> linux box. I must admit I finally broke down and got an .mp3 player.
>
> It will be a while before I try linux with music recording again.
>
> But I'm happily doing everything else in linux: spreadsheets for my piano
> tuning business, printing, Internet, playing music for private guitar
> students (sometimes from CDs but mostly youtube). Linux rocks. maybe I'll
> plug my NRV10 into it and see what grief I can get into.
>
> ;)
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