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Well... they do have some good software for Mac. But I hate all the 
dongles and piracy and stuff... I reckon BSD's a great OS but there's 
one piece of software I really need which is Linux only - BPMDJ. It's 
amaaaazing. Kicks the living shit out of Traktor, I think. Other than 
that, I use Ardour for multitracking and Hydrogen for beats. Also 
LADSPA, of course... All my synth stuff is done on outboard kit because 
I don't think the Linux synths can compete, yet. I would be very 
interested to know if anybody can recommend a good, live playable 
sequencer (I'm thinking something like Akai's MPC sequencer) I can 
actually compile. Seq24 is ideal but hasn't been friendly to me in the 
past in that respect.

Rx

Steve Roome wrote:
> Thanks for the interesting info, it's good to know that not everyone
> has decided to (stupidly :) ) buy a mac for audio!
>
> What other software on Linux are you using for audio stuff, some of it
> I've found (on FreeBSD) to look nice but crash a lot. Not having a lot
> of luck with that bit myself. (bad choice of OS probably.)
>
>         Steve
>
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:06:56AM +0000, Raymond Brooks wrote:
>   
>> This is kind of a cross post from BBLUG but I thought it might be of 
>> interest to some parties on this list, also.
>> Big love and New Yearz greetz,
>> Ray x
>>
>> Guys and girls,
>>
>>  Just thought I'd update any interested parties with my audio exploits.
>> Finally plumped for the Firewire PCMCIA card option after reading about
>> freebob (freebob.sourceforge.net). Freebob is a driver for the D1000
>> chipset which powers a lot of Firewire based pro audio cards. The card I
>> finally plumped for (tried the M-Audio Audiophile first but that totally
>> refused to work and just sat there flashing angrily) is the 10-in,
>> 10-out Edirol FA101.
>>  After several days of struggling, I have finally managed to get the
>> damned thing working and it sounds great! I found this blog post to be
>> very helpful... took me 90% of the way:
>> http://parumi.wordpress.com/tag/ubuntu/
>>  The final 10% took 90% of my time. I discovered that my soundcard
>> (raw1394 over PCMCIA) does not like to be ACPI managed and although the
>> driver will load, discovers the ports and appears to be loaded and
>> functioning, nothing plays on the card and I could find no documentation
>> as to why this may be. It seems that as soon as you turn off APCI PCI
>> power management, it starts working like a charm. (I have an IBM R40 and
>> as such, it comes with IBM's own BIOS so this problem may even be
>> restricted to this make or even model, I just don't know). I don't know
>> why this may be (read something vague and hand-wavy about IRQ routing)
>> but frankly, if it works now I really don't care...
>>  The distribution I settled on is Ubuntu Feisty, which I have found to
>> be very well put together and fast. Feisty has the advantages of being
>> super up-to-date (for an alpha it's surprisingly unbuggy) and therefore
>> has very good multimedia support. The other obvious choices were FC6
>> (always been a redhat boy but I really think I could change, now. FC6
>> wasn't as slick as I was hoping and not as nice as Ubuntu) and Planet
>> CCRMA (although this is more out of date as their latest distro is based
>> on FC5).
>>  Hope this helps anyone considering a Linux pro audio set-up. See you
>> down the front :)
>>
>> Rx
>>
>> Raymond Brooks wrote:
>>  > Hallooo...
>>  >  I know some of you lot do audio stuff and was wondering if I could
>>  > ask for some advice. I'm after an external sound card for my laptop
>>  > and have been looking into the various options available to me. The
>>  > laptop has USB 2 but no IEE1394. As far as I can tell, my options are
>>  > as follows:
>>  >
>>  > 1. Buy a USB 2 sound card
>>  > 2. Buy a PCMCIA IEE1394 adapter and a Firewire soundcard
>>  >
>>  > Ideally, I would like as many analogue I/O ports as possible. I've
>>  > looked at various M Audio cards (Audiophile & 410) and the Edirol UA101.
>>  >> From my research, the M Audio boxes look good but as I have no
>>  > experience with FireWire on Linux I'm slightly wary of spending the
>>  > cash then finding the devices won't talk. From what I've read, the
>>  > UA101 will not work at all due to Edirol choosing a proprietary USB
>>  > audio implementation, which sucks as I quite like their things. Has
>>  > anyone used M Audio kit under Linux? Are there any other devices
>>  > bblugsters would recommend? All wisdom forthcoming re: PCMCIA FireWire
>>  > would also be very helpful.
>>  >
>>  > Thanks all,
>>  >
>>  > Ray
>>  >
>>
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