when you say mainstream acceptance, it seems you're really talking about end-users and open source being embraced on the desktop. desktop users often expect a certain functionality and polish from software they use regularly. it's tough for free software to compete. ..but nonetheless the idea has caught on in the sense
I bought one of the fry's thizlinux $200 specials and am beating away with it. I got jack working on it even, but I know I need to tune it more. CCRMA works great. I love trackers, too, buzz has been a source of great joy for me.
I like fruity's piano roll better than cubase's, but I have sent large amounts of CC any further than my own computer.
No disrespect to fruity, it's amazing and _very_ versitle for experimental work, especially with all the great/unique/weird vsts and vsti's. for me it's just that the idea of scripted audio mulching has become a very fascinating subject, bordering on a perversion. all credit due to the makers of fruity, I would love to see such an interface developed for linux audio software- with the culture surrounding it, I believe it would be many times more versitile.
I still use fruity for experiemental work in collaboration with a friend of mine, but am starting to supply the project with samples generated on my linux box. My solo work in development is being done with linux.
It's true fruity is a simply amazing program, but to reference the original poster, there is *no* way I will move to XP for audio stuff and eventually, someday, 2000 will not be supported by fruity. so now I'm putting in time with linux because it's something I believe in... and hydrogen is much like the very early fruity, have some fun and jackrack it- record the wavs into ardour and go. what's been really interesting me now is the ecasound perl module... yummy audio processing scripting. PD is great and don't forget Csound is LGPL now! if you ever had an interest in audio development, linux is the platform.
for me in a way, fruity became too easy. maybe I'm a masochist, but it seemed like some of the sweat I was having to put in to music with I first started with external MIDI gear and Cakewalk for DOS really made my work edgy. don't get me wrong, I still use fruity, and it's great (the _best_ UI), but find me on my spare time and not on the 'clock' so to speak, and I'm all about gettin' freaky on linux trying to code algorhythmic beat slicing.
I use nearly that exact setup for my commercial work now, but for experimental music, I've used Planet CCRMA to move my setup to linux. Ardour is shaping up nicely and compares favorably to the wave editing capabilities of Cubase (minus a few features which I'm sure will be added as development continues), and jack is like having low latency ASIO and rewire wrapped into one (with a sophisticated and well implemented patchbay functionality). Give hydrogen LADSPA effects on individual channels and it will be like fruity a few versions back. The progression of linux audio software is fantastic and it's really hitting the threshold of accessibility to industry professionals with all the turnkey systems available.
It takes some work to get everything functioning properly, but the time you are investing in free software ultimately means that you are supporting software that everyone can enjoy and learn from. NOW is the time to get on board with linux audio software. ..already there is enough to keep an experimental and technically minded person busy for hours, but it won't be long until UI refinements make it friendly and practical for everyone - but only with the help of artists who get involved and express their needs to developers.
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when you say mainstream acceptance, it seems you're really talking about end-users and open source being embraced on the desktop. desktop users often expect a certain functionality and polish from software they use regularly. it's tough for free software to compete. . .but nonetheless the idea has caught on in the sense
I like fruity's piano roll better than cubase's, but I have sent large amounts of CC any further than my own computer.
No disrespect to fruity, it's amazing and _very_ versitle for experimental work, especially with all the great/unique/weird vsts and vsti's. for me it's just that the idea of scripted audio mulching has become a very fascinating subject, bordering on a perversion. all credit due to the makers of fruity, I would love to see such an interface developed for linux audio software- with the culture surrounding it, I believe it would be many times more versitile.
I still use fruity for experiemental work in collaboration with a friend of mine, but am starting to supply the project with samples generated on my linux box. My solo work in development is being done with linux.
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for me in a way, fruity became too easy. maybe I'm a masochist, but it seemed like some of the sweat I was having to put in to music with I first started with external MIDI gear and Cakewalk for DOS really made my work edgy. don't get me wrong, I still use fruity, and it's great (the _best_ UI), but find me on my spare time and not on the 'clock' so to speak, and I'm all about gettin' freaky on linux trying to code algorhythmic beat slicing.
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It takes some work to get everything functioning properly, but the time you are investing in free software ultimately means that you are supporting software that everyone can enjoy and learn from. NOW is the time to get on board with linux audio software. . .already there is enough to keep an experimental and technically minded person busy for hours, but it won't be long until UI refinements make it friendly and practical for everyone - but only with the help of artists who get involved and express their needs to developers.
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