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Using a Linux-based home recording studio (NewsForge)
Dave Fancella makes some
music in a Linux-based home recording studio on NewsForge. "Open
source software has been available for multi-track recording for some time,
but only in recent months has it finally matured to a point where it can
handle both entry-level and production-level tasks. In the past you had to
spend thousands of dollars to be able to record, which put recording demo
tapes, extended play records, and long play records well beyond the budget
of a hobbyist or struggling band. Nowadays we have good quality open source
software for recording and the Internet as a distribution mechanism. The
cost to record is literally the same as the price of your computer and the
time spent recording."
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Using a Linux-based home recording studio (NewsForge) Posted Oct 22, 2004 19:05 UTC (Fri) by jimi (subscriber, #6655) [Link] If you are really going to do recording, use ardour (http://www.ardour.org). I'm using it currently for all my recording (connected to an Alesis adat via an RME HDSP9652). Pretty amazing setup. Ardour uses all the same LADSPA plugins as audacity and other LADSPA apps. Plus JACK is awesome - it is how computer audio should be done. Now if only I had dual opterons, multiple GB of RAM, and dual displays...
Using a Linux-based home recording studio (NewsForge) Posted Oct 22, 2004 21:58 UTC (Fri) by achitnis (subscriber, #20) [Link] I recently plunked down a ton of cash for recording equipment for a home studio. I made doubly sure that everything is supported under ALSA and stuff, so I am kind of raring to go on this project.
Ardour interests me, but I wish the website was reachable (it hasn't been, at least to me, for a while).
Also, past attempts at installing were frustrating - no drop in packages (RPMs, whatever) available then. While I have no issues compiling a tarball or two, when it comes to applications like these I prefer spending my time working with the app rather than fighting dependencies and compilers!
Note - I compile my OpenOffice.org from ground up, so any comments about my being a weenie are out of place :)
Using a Linux-based home recording studio (NewsForge) Posted Oct 22, 2004 22:17 UTC (Fri) by cliffman (guest, #13144) [Link] "Ardour interests me, but I wish the website was reachable (it hasn't been, at least to me, for a while)."
They have moved recently, have you tried ardour.org ?
Using a Linux-based home recording studio (NewsForge) Posted Oct 25, 2004 9:57 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link] Now if only I had dual opterons, multiple GB of RAM, and dual displays... Who needs those with a name like that. ;-)
Using a Linux-based home recording studio (NewsForge) Posted Oct 23, 2004 8:10 UTC (Sat) by frazier (subscriber, #3060) [Link] In the past you had to spend thousands of dollars to be able to record, which put recording demo tapes, extended play records, and long play records well beyond the budget of a hobbyist or struggling band.I've watched in delight (and sometimes impatience) as digital powers have worked their way downstream. Sometime around 1995 my favorite band King's X broke off from their major label deal and were able to release on a smaller budget thanks to digital recording. A year or so ago a less-than-tech-saavy friend of mine recorded a nice sounding release on dedicated proprietary standalone digital recording hardware. I'd be a little surprised if he had over $2k in recording equipment. A GNU-based offering is the next logical step in this evolution.
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