Linux and Audio Production: Simplicity Required (O'ReillyNet)

Linux and Audio Production: Simplicity Required (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Jul 28, 2005 13:55 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
Parent article: Linux and Audio Production: Simplicity Required (O'ReillyNet)

I am no musician, but I liek to play around with this sort of stuff.

Having the hardware be controlled by the application is obviously silly. It may work with windows, but in Linux your going to end up having dozens of applicatoins running at once becuase no single application has the full featured-ness that commercial windows tools are going to provide.

On the other hand all Linux has things like Ladspa and especially Jackd low-latency server as well as the control that alsa drivers can provide.

Also we have a maturing realtime-preempt and such so that latencies are potentionally much better then anything in Windows.

I am thinking that this guy just isn't to familar with the state of Linux audio technology.. it does have some very compelling aspects that other platforms do not offer.

I especially like the nature of jackd audio server. Being able to route sound and midi sequencies from application to application and stuff like that is great.

But like I said I am no real musician, it's just my two cents.

For ease of installation and such there is Demudi distro, a debian-based distro that is specificly designed for making a pc into a digital audio workstation and it's counterpart Redmudi which is based on Redhat.. both aviable from Agnula.

Then there also is a live CD at http://dynebolic.org/ that has is designed to make any computer, even older ones, into usefull audio workstations.

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