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Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts
Henry G. writes "Lionstracs of Italy has released the Mediastation X-76 music workstation. It runs Red Hat and KDE 3.1. The base model features a 1.67 Ghz Athlon, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, CDRW/DVD-ROM, 8.2" LCD, and a host of other things. Full specs can be found here and pictures can be found here. To this submitter, it looks more like a keyboardized computer than a computerized keyboard."
Can I run Logic or any of the other industry-standard music applications ? If so, this would seem to be the breakthrough Linux has been waiting for in the audiophile/professional musician marketplace.
Sorry man, you are amazingly disconnected with the computer music scene. Although many of are enjoying macosx now, most of us know and like unix.
Perhaps its while we are using pure-data, or STK or maybe CLAM or by chance audacity
Linking is getting old, but being surronded by computer music, I promise you WE USE LINUX.
Kind Regards,
Rob
First off the availability is slowly but steadily increasing. With projects like Ardour nearing major releases even professional recording studios are starting to take note. Even the home user is finding more useful tools available. And with preemptive kernels there's lots of possibilities.
The future for Linux holds many things. Hackers composing music? You bet.
Quack, quack.
The Germans use H for B (and B for B-flat), that should help. (Thus Bach managed to encode his name into the last fugue he wrote, and it breaks off unfinished soon after he introduces that motif). Even more possibilities occur when you consider that E-flat is written Es, F-sharp is Fis, etc. Dmitry Shostakovich used DSCH (= D - Eflat - C - B) in many of his works.