Unfortunately none of these are even usable tools for anything serious. (What we're talking about here is MIDI+Digital audio sequencing, specifically, and I would like to see video editing in here to.) These tools may be fine for doing some simple tunes through your SoundBlaster, but unfortunately they don't help much if you're trying to manage a studio with 128+-channels, lots of instruments, and other hardware.
A couple examples of this are how Brahms insists upon using General MIDI names instead of program/bank numbers. GM is not acceptable. It also seems to crash a lot. Both of these will hopefully be fixed - but both currently make it not a solution.
Beast is also not a tool for a studio.
Rosegarden unfortunately seemed extremely limited, and very willing to crash, last time I checked it out as well. (It may have insisted on GM as well, I honestly forget. It's also not being maintained, which is unfortunate, since it really does have a good start.) I will download and try it again.
These all do your standard linear sequencing, too. Try playing with KeyKit sometime. It took me three or four tries to get "into" it, but I think it's probably one of the most powerful, cool things I've seen for sequencing yet. It is very quirky though, and the license prevents me from taking it an reimplementing it using some other toolkit.
BTW, I've been a violinist for the past 17 years or so, so I read music as well. Sometimes the piano roll editor is more applicable to certain types of music, though, where you're not really working with notes and chords (such as ambient techno). Plus, effective controller use from a score view is near impossible, because you don't have a true view of notes over time. This means you have to switch to a piano roll at least some of the time, or have some pretty incredible AI to do it automatically.
But then, I'd not want to play (or write) a sonata from a piano roll printout.:)
Finally. The one thing Linux needs and is severely lacking is good multimedia studio software. Correction. Any multimedia studio software. The only projects are not really in active development from what I can tell, except Melys, and that's fairly new. KeyKit is pretty cool, although a bit ugly by modern standards, but it has a few problems, especially the license.
As you can see from general searching and The Linux Sound and MIDI page, there isn't much else going on. I don't even see an attempt at a nonlinear video editor.
Also there are some unfortunate driver issues. I requested specs for the Motu MTP AV after purchasing one, only to get a reply that the information wasn't available to the public... so I can't write a driver, and am forced to use it like a cheap MIDI switch. (I'm going to continue to bug them, of course. It would benefit them and the Linux community to at least have open drivers. They sell more, we get software support and better, more capable studios.)
This really is a step in the right direction for the Jazz people, though, since they don't have a lot of regular updates. Hopefully they will use a Free(tm) license like the GPL. I applaud them in their decision, though, this is something I've been hoping for for awhile. Thanks guys!
Hmm, I don't know too much about this, but it rang the little bell in the back of my head when I saw this. I saw an ad for it in the back of the Final Fantasy VIII Official Strategy Guide.
Apparently the concept illustrator for Final Fantasy (?), and this features stuff from Final Fantasy Anthology? I'm not sure, the wording is far from clear, but the one picture they show looks a little like some of the art for FF6, so...
Anyone know if this will actually has some FF stuff there? Too bad I can't be there...
You can have the best mouse in the world, but in the end... it's still a mouse. Since this is MS, innovation is of course out of the question, but I'll stick to my Wacom ArtZ II tablet and Synaptecs touchpad, thanks.
BTW, for those of you still stuck with mice, beware; the constant arm motion between keyboard and mouse could be harmful. A good touchpad isn't near the price of one of these mice I bet; my keyboard has a great touchpad built right in, and cost $60 (one of those split keyboards).
The tablet was of course quite a bit more, but if you're serious about digital art, you're going to have one; if not, you don't need it anyway.
Imagine Linux on a supercomputer like that... mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Plus all the things they could integrate from Irix into Linux... like the `scheduling' system of cellular irix...
Now if only I had a few million to drop on one of these.
I don't know, I haven't actually used one. I would assume given a halfway decent one (read: not the cheap consumer-quality kinds) they come with all the hardware and information you need. I believe there is documentation either with the kernel or with init that talks about this... I believe it was with the kernel... check it out.
The reason you have to shut down is because you have mounted partitions as rw. If you don't need to write to them, you could always mount everything ro and then it shouldn't even fsck on boot. I think. I'm not going to try it.:)
It's obvious you will need to write something, and you might be able to turn off the caching for that particular partition.
It's really too bad you can't buy a UPS. Then you could hook it up to init to shut down the computer when it gets a powerfail signal...
MySQL is hardly Open Source(tm), I didn't know there was any pretense that is was...
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Nope, no reason for Linux whatsoever. Don't need stability after all: we're not talking about serious work here (just movies, simulations, and other nonsense). After all, per-seat licenses won't be anything, really.
We all know how fast NT is, so there's another reason that Linux would be of no value here. Why bother? Portability isn't an issue either, we all know the world runs on Intel.
Guess it's time to pay homage to the Empire.</sarcasm>
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Unfortunately none of these are even usable tools for anything serious. (What we're talking about here is MIDI+Digital audio sequencing, specifically, and I would like to see video editing in here to.) These tools may be fine for doing some simple tunes through your SoundBlaster, but unfortunately they don't help much if you're trying to manage a studio with 128+-channels, lots of instruments, and other hardware.
A couple examples of this are how Brahms insists upon using General MIDI names instead of program/bank numbers. GM is not acceptable. It also seems to crash a lot. Both of these will hopefully be fixed - but both currently make it not a solution.
Beast is also not a tool for a studio.
Rosegarden unfortunately seemed extremely limited, and very willing to crash, last time I checked it out as well. (It may have insisted on GM as well, I honestly forget. It's also not being maintained, which is unfortunate, since it really does have a good start.) I will download and try it again.
These all do your standard linear sequencing, too. Try playing with KeyKit sometime. It took me three or four tries to get "into" it, but I think it's probably one of the most powerful, cool things I've seen for sequencing yet. It is very quirky though, and the license prevents me from taking it an reimplementing it using some other toolkit.
BTW, I've been a violinist for the past 17 years or so, so I read music as well. Sometimes the piano roll editor is more applicable to certain types of music, though, where you're not really working with notes and chords (such as ambient techno). Plus, effective controller use from a score view is near impossible, because you don't have a true view of notes over time. This means you have to switch to a piano roll at least some of the time, or have some pretty incredible AI to do it automatically.
But then, I'd not want to play (or write) a sonata from a piano roll printout. :)
Finally. The one thing Linux needs and is severely lacking is good multimedia studio software. Correction. Any multimedia studio software. The only projects are not really in active development from what I can tell, except Melys, and that's fairly new. KeyKit is pretty cool, although a bit ugly by modern standards, but it has a few problems, especially the license.
As you can see from general searching and The Linux Sound and MIDI page, there isn't much else going on. I don't even see an attempt at a nonlinear video editor.
Also there are some unfortunate driver issues. I requested specs for the Motu MTP AV after purchasing one, only to get a reply that the information wasn't available to the public... so I can't write a driver, and am forced to use it like a cheap MIDI switch. (I'm going to continue to bug them, of course. It would benefit them and the Linux community to at least have open drivers. They sell more, we get software support and better, more capable studios.)
This really is a step in the right direction for the Jazz people, though, since they don't have a lot of regular updates. Hopefully they will use a Free(tm) license like the GPL. I applaud them in their decision, though, this is something I've been hoping for for awhile. Thanks guys!
Hmm, I don't know too much about this, but it rang the little bell in the back of my head when I saw this. I saw an ad for it in the back of the Final Fantasy VIII Official Strategy Guide.
Apparently the concept illustrator for Final Fantasy (?), and this features stuff from Final Fantasy Anthology? I'm not sure, the wording is far from clear, but the one picture they show looks a little like some of the art for FF6, so...
Anyone know if this will actually has some FF stuff there? Too bad I can't be there...
You can have the best mouse in the world, but in the end... it's still a mouse. Since this is MS, innovation is of course out of the question, but I'll stick to my Wacom ArtZ II tablet and Synaptecs touchpad, thanks.
BTW, for those of you still stuck with mice, beware; the constant arm motion between keyboard and mouse could be harmful. A good touchpad isn't near the price of one of these mice I bet; my keyboard has a great touchpad built right in, and cost $60 (one of those split keyboards).
The tablet was of course quite a bit more, but if you're serious about digital art, you're going to have one; if not, you don't need it anyway.
All I've got to say is: WOOOO!
Imagine Linux on a supercomputer like that... mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Plus all the things they could integrate from Irix into Linux... like the `scheduling' system of cellular irix...
Now if only I had a few million to drop on one of these.
I don't know, I haven't actually used one. I would assume given a halfway decent one (read: not the cheap consumer-quality kinds) they come with all the hardware and information you need. I believe there is documentation either with the kernel or with init that talks about this... I believe it was with the kernel... check it out.
The reason you have to shut down is because you have mounted partitions as rw. If you don't need to write to them, you could always mount everything ro and then it shouldn't even fsck on boot. I think. I'm not going to try it. :)
It's obvious you will need to write something, and you might be able to turn off the caching for that particular partition.
It's really too bad you can't buy a UPS. Then you could hook it up to init to shut down the computer when it gets a powerfail signal...
MySQL is hardly Open Source(tm), I didn't know there was any pretense that is was...
Nope, no reason for Linux whatsoever. Don't need stability after all: we're not talking about serious work here (just movies, simulations, and other nonsense). After all, per-seat licenses won't be anything, really.
We all know how fast NT is, so there's another reason that Linux would be of no value here. Why bother? Portability isn't an issue either, we all know the world runs on Intel.
Guess it's time to pay homage to the Empire.</sarcasm>