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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] New To List

Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 4:01 am

Hi Mark,
Thanks for the info. I've already had a look at Planet CCRMA. Once I get

Red Hat up and running it'll be my first port of call!
Cheers,
Chris
At 01:31 PM 8/20/03, Mark Knecht wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 20:20, Chris Share wrote:

quoted text> > Hi,

>

>Welcome

> >

> > After reading an article about Linux and music in Sound On Sound recently,

> > I thought I'd take the plunge and begin moving my music studio to Linux.

> > Currently I'm using an Athlon XP-based PC and a PowerMac 7600/200. The PC

> > contains a Hoontech DSP24 Value card and an MPU-401 style MIDI interface

> > that I put together myself. The Mac contains a Yamaha SW1000 card and an

> > Opcode MIDI interface. My main music software is Cubase, although I've

> used

> > tons of other music software over the years.

>

>Sounds familiar!

> >

> > The main programs I'm interested using are Rosegarden and Ardour, although

> > I'm also interested in looking at some of the softsynth stuff too.

>

>Great programs to start with. Having shosen them you seem to know about

>Jack at this point, so that's good.

>

> >

> > I work as a technical writer and have written some music software for Mac

> > and PC (CS1 Background Edit) so I'm fairly computer literate. However, I

> > have no experience with Linux.

> >

> > Initially, I installed Debian on my PC, however it didn't get along

> with my

> > TFT monitor. I've since bought Red Hat 9.0. Which I'm just about to

> > install. Hopefully it will be a bit easier to use!

>

>Much easier, in the sense that you have a really great resource at your

>service - Planet CCRMA - totally easy to bring up all of these apps in a

>single evening using the service that Standford and Fernando provide.

>

>http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

>

> >

> > Before I begin the installation I was wondering if someone could fill

> me in

> > on the current state of ALSA. I've had a quick look at some of the How-Tos

> > however I'm not clear on how up-to-date they are.

>

>Alsa will be installed for you under the Planet flow. Fernando keeps it

>quite up to date.

>

> >

> > I'm currently looking at getting a new soundcard--the Hoontech was really

> > only a temporary measure to get sound out of the PC. Unfortunately, it

> > seems that the SW1000 won't ever be supported so it's not much use.

> >

> > I'd like a card with balanced 24-bit analog I/O and SPDIF I/O. The MiaMIDI

> > card seems to have these features. Does anyone have experience with this

> > card on a Linux system?

> >

> > I also thought that a Delta66 would be suitable too.

>

>I'll let others help you there. I'm using RME cards, but I use external

>A/D-D/A

>

>Best of luck. It's a fun, but brave new world.

>

>Cheers,

>Mark