Musings From Studio Dave (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Dave Phillips starts a blog about Linux audio software. "I use Linux exclusively here at Studio Dave. I have a modest home studio that I use for music composition and recording, but it's also a central component in my teaching practice. Students are introduced to ear-training with Tom Cato's wonderful Solfege, they learn how to capture audio and manipulate it with the Audacity soundfile editor, and they read scores in standard notation beautifully rendered by the LilyPond music typesetter. They also see and hear the sophisticated control systems (e.g. XMMS, MPlayer, xine) I use to play their CDs, DVDs, and MP3 collections."

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Musings From Studio Dave (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 10, 2006 17:44 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

I think Linux has a lot to offer in terms of audio applications. I think that you can get a full featured digitial audio workstation for very low bucks and if you want to put some money into your computer it can be as high performing as anything else.

The major barrier to most people, however, is that in order to get everything workin g you need to have a pretty high knowledge of Linux/linux-isms. Especially with some sound cards it can be very frustrating. And using jack to control input output between many multiple programs is very cool, but it's kinda confusing were people came from a background were you had one big program do everything vs in Linux were you have lots of little programs.

There are a veriaty of live cdrom images for audio work, but this one is interesting to me.
http://www.ferventsoftware.com/
But only because of their hardware compatability lists. It's nice to have something like that when your buying new hardware. Otherwise it's a bit of a crapshoot.

Musings From Studio Dave (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 10, 2006 21:18 UTC (Mon) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

One fine music product I am missing from the article is Rosegarden. It includes a complete sequencer, can export to lilypond notation, and lots of other nifty stuff. I haven't really learned to use everything yet .. :)