KVR Audio

EKen · Post by **EKen** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:49 pm

I missed the VST part. Very, very cool. I saw Studio to Go reviews before but did not realize they had the VST capability.

You can take a $50 motherboard/cpu combo with built in video and turn it into a Fantom, Motif, or Triton with more sounds, more effects and more sampling power.

Very cool - thanks for the info

Improv · Post by **Improv** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:58 pm

EKen wrote: I missed the VST part. Very, very cool. I saw Studio to Go reviews before but did not realize they had the VST capability.

You can take a $50 motherboard/cpu combo with built in video and turn it into a Fantom, Motif, or Triton with more sounds, more effects and more sampling power.

Very cool - thanks for the info

I've been using trying Linux for several years now, so I more or less know my way around. But when it comes to music, I want to be a music geek, not a computer geek, ya know?

That's why the Studio to Go concept is so appealing-pop in a cd adn go-that's it! That and the fact that Rosegarden is done by the same devs.

I'll stay with windows for audio for know, but will keep track on Linux audio progress.

RTaylor · Post by **RTaylor** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:42 am

http://muse-sequencer.org/

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:37 am

Muse Sequencer doesn't appear to use VSTs, only Lapsda plugs.

I'd never give up my Lost Tech, let alone the 1000+ plug-ins I've learned to use.

Improv · Post by **Improv** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:11 am

runagate wrote:Muse Sequencer doesn't appear to use VSTs, only Lapsda plugs.

I'd never give up my Lost Tech, let alone the 1000+ plug-ins I've learned to use.

Uh..Lost Tech?

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:17 am

Lost Technology VST effect.
It's brilliant.

icelizarrd · Post by **icelizarrd** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:19 am

I'm really curious about audio with Linux. I don't think I could give up the programs I'm accustomed to, but if I ever happen across a decent laptop, it would be fun.

Maybe I'll give one of those Live CDs a spin.

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:34 am

Careful though- while most stuff Just Works with desktop Linux Distros, this is certainly not the case with audio-oriented stuff. It's not hard or anything, it just requires some work to be done. It's a matter of pacience and paying attention, I guess.

Groet, Erik

PS: not saying this to scare people away from it- on the contrary, it's exiting and fun. Just don't be disappointed when stuff doesn't work out of the box.

icelizarrd · Post by **icelizarrd** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:49 am

By the way, does anyone know how the licensing works out with commercial Linux distros like this Studio to Go? I thought under the GPL, anything made using Linux code has to be distributed for free, with the source code available.

RTaylor · Post by **RTaylor** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:15 am

runagate wrote:Muse Sequencer doesn't appear to use VSTs, only Lapsda plugs.

I'd never give up my Lost Tech, let alone the 1000+ plug-ins I've learned to use.

http://www.muse-sequencer.org/wiki/index.php/Tour

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:18 am

RTaylor wrote:
runagate wrote:Muse Sequencer doesn't appear to use VSTs, only Lapsda plugs.

I'd never give up my Lost Tech, let alone the 1000+ plug-ins I've learned to use.
http://www.muse-sequencer.org/wiki/index.php/Tour

That's weird. I went to their wiki, searched for "VST" and turned up nada. That'll be fun to read though. Thanks.

*edit*

Muse Seq Wiki wrote:VST/Instruments (Windows binaries)

First of all MusE can connect to make use of VSTi and not to VST plugins(this is coming in v0. for audio processing. What VSTi plugins are supported so far you can find out here:

So no VST fx yet, no Lost Tech and everything else I love.

I'll keep an eye on it, though.

cannam · Post by **cannam** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:45 pm

[quote="icelizarrd"]By the way, does anyone know how the licensing works out with commercial Linux distros like this Studio to Go? I thought under the GPL, anything made using Linux code has to be distributed for free, with the source code available.[/quote]

The executable binaries don't have to be distributed for free -- you can charge what you like for them -- but yes, the source does have to be freely available. (Check the FAQ on the Studio to Go! site for a link to the sources for Studio to Go!.)

Since the source is available and there are other distributors for the binaries, it's very much up to you whether to pay for the product or not. If the whole package seems like something it would be hard to assemble yourself and the support offering appeals, then you might; otherwise, you won't.

For this reason, prices for binaries of GPL software tend to be either very low, fairly high for certain niche products with tiny markets, or else zero. Studio to Go's price, like that of any other paid-for Linux distribution, reflects the effort put in to assembling, testing and supporting the package and is not at all related to the work involved in writing all the software in it.

Studio to Go! was born out of frustration at the difficulty in doing the same thing with a mainstream Linux distribution, and perhaps a majority of our customers are Linux users who have already tried to do the same thing and found it too tiresome. A similar kind of situation exists with Windows: there's a market for PC hardware distributors selling Windows-based audio PCs, whose value is as much as anything in the testing they put in to make sure the PC actually works nicely for audio.

Chris
Fervent Software

fake · Post by **fake** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:29 am

First, welcome, second, nice to see you post here.

I purchased Studio to Go although I have a DeMuDi setup, tried it and it works "out of the box" so it is easy for a newcomer to Linux and music.

Thanks for Rosegarden, the dssi-vst wrapper and also for the new Sonic Visualizer which is fun.
In fact Rosegarden alerted me to the fact that the DeMuDi kernel timing was set at 250hz, didn't know that!

Cheers.

fake

Mo Verdigast · Post by **Mo Verdigast** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:52 am

Improv wrote:
EKen wrote:... but a lot of users could benefit from a preconfigured VST/Linux distro.
Did you see my post at the top of this thread? That's exactly why I recommended Studio to Go. It's not perfect, it has a long way to go, but it is a useable-right out of the box-zero config- start for a ready to go vst/Linux.

I'll second this emotion and say that I was able to get something musical out of Studio to Go in less than an hour and I'm definitely not a Linux music guru. Music is a little harder to figure out on Linux because Jack (the audio system) has to be configured, but it is preconfigured for Studio to Go.

Go for it if you want to learn more about Linux and music!

toddyjoe · Post by **toddyjoe** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:51 pm

Audio on Linux is fun. I use a customized version of Puppy Linux with a low-latency kernel that I made just for audio work. If you want to try the new Rosegarden with DSSI support and are not adverse to giving Puppy a try, I made a binary package for the new Rosegarden which you can download over at the Puppy Linux forum. There are also about forty other binary packages I made for other programs that you can download, including Muse, Ardour, JACK and Qjackctl, JACK RACK, TkEca-Ecasound, Hydrogen, Specimen, Vkeybd virtual keyboard, a DSSI VST host, sample and Soundfont players and editors including Swami and Fluidsynth-Qsynth, a ton of synths and drum machines including Hexter, Spiral Synth and ALSA Modular Synth, etc. Have fun!

Rosegarden 1.4 how do you like it?