re: easy linux stuff, for the upcoming XT2 :)

[jens]

I have three computers that will run it quite happily, sitting in storage right now. I just might have to cluster them with Dynebolic, and start broadcasting subversive media!!!

I bet he would like that.

PS: Hydrogen DOES work on Windows. There is a windows version of one of the sound drivers that it uses, and windows binary of Hydrogen; I have had it working quite nicely.

didn't know this (but no vst probably, right?) - thanks for the hint.

[fake]

@Fake:
how's about a tutorial on how to use phrazor on linux? I would certainly love that!

It's fairly easy, you need to install fst and wine and use it to run the Phrazor dll, it don't work well in dssi-vst.

http://archive.64studio.com/pool/main/f/fst/

It's a deb package but should work on any debian system, maybe. Install it and then get the demo of Phrazor which needs installing with wine, make sure it installs into your vst dir.
Make sure jack is running and then in a terminal
fst /(vstpath)/Phrazor.dll

Connect up in jack, pick a vsti and play away. This is one that I will be buying as it seems to work very well in Linux and cheap too.

Now, when XT2 comes out..............

fake

[DarkStar]

you fliping geeks!!

i only want the fliping linux tool


honk honk!!

[Winstontaneous]

dyne:bolic 2.0 has just been released!


http://www.dynebolic.org/

Funny, I just started downloading dyne 2.0 a half hour before I found this thread. Since discovering Linux 1-1/2 years ago I've been trying to use it as much as possible. I use it for most of my desktop needs (writing this from within Vector Linux, a Slackware-based distro) but keep XP on another partition.

I have tried a number of distros for music and find Planet CCRMA http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ to be the best for my needs. It's maintained by Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Musical Acoustics and comes configured with optimized real-time low latency kernels and the latest drivers.

I've found it to be better maintained than the other Linux music distros I've tried (including mediainlinux, dynebolic, Agnula Demudi). It's well documented, stable, and up-to-date. If you are a Linux/UNIX expert you could of course compile/maintain your own optimized kernels/programs but IMO Planet CCRMA is the next best thing--informative website, very helpful mailing lists. If you want to do music on Linux, I think you're better off using an optimized distro, rather than adding a bunch of stuff onto a desktop distro like Ubuntu.

I just discovered EnergyXT a few months ago and have started to use it in conjunction with Tracktion2 in XP...VERY excited to see that EXT2 will work on Linux!!! Ardour and Rosegarden are OK but not yet ready for primetime compared to most Win/Mac DAWs.

[MartynM]

I have tried a number of distros for music and find Planet CCRMA http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ to be the best for my needs. It's well documented, stable, and up-to-date.

Are you using Fedora core 5 with your version, or an older one? I've been using the Fedora core 3 planet ccrma package for a while now but am finding that there are a few apps I can't seen to find for it. I'm using 90% Linux apps on windows now, especially for graphics, the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus apps are getting REALLY interesting if you're in the publishing neck of the woods. I can't install the latest versions of them in Fedora 3 though, can't seem to anyway, I'm still very green where Linux is concerned.

It says on the CCRMA site that there is a version for Fedora5 but it's not classed as stable yet. I'd be interested to know what you're running.

[undef]

dyne:bolic 2.0 has just been released!


http://www.dynebolic.org/

just found out that dyne:bolic is RASTA SOFTWARE -

guess i'm going to download it and when xt2 is out i can tell all my frends that i'm producing ragga-jungle on an original rasta os.

....a bit childish, i guess

[fake]

Hi MartynM.

Thats the problem I had with ccrma and fedora 3, it's not current enough and a lot of new programs or updated programs will not work on it.


If you like grafix then have a try at some flash vector grafix in linux,

f4l, flash for linux
ktoon
Synfig studio

There is also a new build version of the Bristol synth engine with added synths, now 18 in all and all work in jack.....

Sorry jorgen for being off topic but IMHO it's about time kvr had a dedicated Linux sticky!

fake

[MartynM]

Hi MartynM.

Thats the problem I had with ccrma and fedora 3, it's not current enough and a lot of new programs or updated programs will not work on it.

Ah, that's what I thought. They do have a Fedora 5 version up there now but I'm not sure how stable it is. To be honest, I'm not interested in 75% of the apps bundled with it either, it's the low latency kernal that I'm interested in.

Speaking of open source graphics, has anyone seen the results of Studio Orange's Blender project

http://www.elephantsdream.org/download/

All done using open source software, the modifications they made to Blender are going to end up in the next release too, and all files used in making the movie are available under the creative commons licence. I highly recommend downloading the high quality version, it really is gobsmackingly good, they'll be turning a few heads with it for sure.

Cheers

M

[sirTUXalot]

Dual booting is really easy. Most distros allow you to select multiple OS's in the install menu, and if you install manually, like I do with Slack, you just need to add a couple of steps to grubconf or liloconf, whichever you prefer. (If your install of XP has a recovery partition, make sure you boot into the right one! (Usually /dev/hda2)Oh, and install grub/lilo to the MBR if XP is installed first.

-n8

Ubuntu was easy to set up, but it took a LOT of extra tweaking to get the music stuff right. This place helps a lot, but as you can see it takes a bit of work to set it all up right.

I couldn't get my Midiman Midi-USB adapter OR my PODXT to work after weeks of struggling, so I haven't booted in Ubunto for months. Those 45 GB I set off for a Linux partition are looking awfully tempting now. I've even started up Partition Magic a couple of times, but I don't dare just yet in case the dual boot utility gets f**ked.

I'll wait until my next computer arrives (probably like February or something) to bother with this. XT2 should be in the early stages of Beta testing by then, don't you think?

[Kyran]

I'm kind of new to this linux thing. So I might have a stupid question:
will it be possible to load vst plug ins in the linux version of ext2, or is it really necessary to load it up in this jack thing and do some complex, interprogram routing to get them to work?

[VitaminD]

If you like grafix then have a try at some flash vector grafix in linux,

f4l, flash for linux
ktoon
Synfig studio

very nice.. all very beta.. but very nice.

[Lump]

Suse 10 (opensuse): NICE! This is one of the slickest distro's out there. Super userfriendly, very attractive visually (thanx to KDE3, among other things) and vastly improved (since i last tried it) YaST package / installation / system manager. It is brilliant. Feed it a bunch of the numerous third party package repository addresses, and it is at least as good as APT. Yast does a whole bunch of other things; it is an excellent and really user-friendly way to manage your whole system. No command line stuff at all is necessary with Suse10 :D:D
And, there is a 64 bit version too; I never knew just how f-ing fast my system was until i installed SuSE 10 amd64!!! Lightening broke a sweat trying to keep up
If you are a newbie, this is THE SYSTEM to start with, IMHO.
cons: Ardour is not installed by default, but I have had no problems installing Muse, Rosegarden, Audacity, Hydrogen, ZynaddsubFX, DSSI, and a bunch of others. Also, Kernel is not pre-patched, but i didn't bother; playing synths with my MIDI keyboard (Oxygen8 - which it automatically recognized, BTW ) there was no noticable latency; it felt like playing a hardware synth.

From my sight of view SUSE needing some improvements for proAudio, like change the kernel to a audio realtime one etc. So there is www.jacklab.net, a community which cares about that things and offers latest software builds.

[jazzride2006]

Hi
personaly have Sonar + Samplitude under XP. But changed for linux + Fervent software/Studio to go because = high performances under linux, Ardour becomes a great soft, can use vst and vsti under linux + wait for Ext under Linux = perfect solution. 2nd choice: Mac os X/ But win can't match mac os x or linux for "pro" music applications. regards

[Z3R0T0N1N]

oh boy... here we go.

win can't match os x??? or linux??? for pro audio....

ouch.

[jazzride2006]

oh boy... here we go.

win can't match os x??? or linux??? for pro audio....

ouch.

a bit tired
for pro audio : my opinion: mac or linux, never win...
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