Linux...anybody using it?

[glokraw]

You have no idea of my usage and wants from Linux.

BS... You, and I, and everyone, want a superior stable OS platform, they can
afford, trust and enjoy.

If you had asked me, about partitions, or installing video drivers,
you could have been spared some needless trials, not with expertise,
just some common sense based on experience.

You labelled linux as "one holy clusterf**k", so yes, you did attack developers.

You can candy-coat your epic fail, (that forced a reinstallation)
in educational robes, but how many years do you intend to blame others for
your blunders? I've certainly not yet performed my last blunder,
but when I do, I'll not blame the distro maintainers, the app coders,
the kernel team, or some uncaring forum yokels.

Take note of the helpful and knowledgeable users, regardless
of the OS they use, and communicate, or watch for their online posts.
I go to a maillist several times a week, looking for posts from
Dave Phillips, Paul Davis, Jeremy Jongepier, Fons Adriaensen, Len Ovens, and many many more, because they know what I want to know.

I listed some productive pursuits using linux software. I hope you will
take them on, or use them if already in place.
Cheers

[jeffh]

Ladies, ladies... Calm down, sheesh...

[codec_spurt]

You have no idea of my usage and wants from Linux.

BS... You, and I, and everyone, want a superior stable OS platform, they can
afford, trust and enjoy.

If you had asked me, about partitions, or installing video drivers,
you could have been spared some needless trials, not with expertise,
just some common sense based on experience.

You labelled linux as "one holy clusterf**k", so yes, you did attack developers.

You can candy-coat your epic fail, (that forced a reinstallation)
in educational robes, but how many years do you intend to blame others for
your blunders? I've certainly not yet performed my last blunder,
but when I do, I'll not blame the distro maintainers, the app coders,
the kernel team, or some uncaring forum yokels.

Take note of the helpful and knowledgeable users, regardless
of the OS they use, and communicate, or watch for their online posts.
I go to a maillist several times a week, looking for posts from
Dave Phillips, Paul Davis, Jeremy Jongepier, Fons Adriaensen, Len Ovens, and many many more, because they know what I want to know.

I listed some productive pursuits using linux software. I hope you will
take them on, or use them if already in place.
Cheers

I like it!

I love how we can have a rational chat about the wonders of alternative OSs.

However, it shall be our last.


I could refute your points with proof one by one, however I won't.
I will just do this - I will never post on this thread again and I shall never mention the word 'Linux' at KVR again in any thread.

In the meantime, I will keep helping out noobs at the Linux Mint forum..

You have gone totally off the rails and have become deranged, when I thought that that was my domain, but you have even surpassed my efforts for weirdness.

All the best now.

[StudioDave]

... I will never post on this thread again and I shall never mention the word 'Linux' at KVR again in any thread...

A quick PSA to any & all who read this:

KVR has a Mute Status option, many sites have similar options, by which you can select and dismiss traffic as you see fit. I find it refreshing and restorative to my sanity, and I can always unmute if I want.

The service comes without restrictions. Liberal use is encouraged.

Best,

dp

PS: @codec, Sorry to see you go. Good luck with the Minties !

[glokraw]

... I will never post on this thread again and I shall never mention the word 'Linux' at KVR again in any thread...

A quick PSA to any & all who read this:

KVR has a Mute Status option, many sites have similar options, by which you can select and dismiss traffic as you see fit. I find it refreshing and restorative to my sanity, and I can always unmute if I want.

The service comes without restrictions. Liberal use is encouraged.

Best,

dp

PS: @codec, Sorry to see you go. Good luck with the Minties !

Drama queens never 'go', because they need the attention garnered by
announcing each new act. New costume, new nick, new script,
but the same attitude.

As for linux news, the great Yoshimi 16 part multitimbral synthesizer
is getting jackd Audio-outs for each of 16 tracks, so start snarfing up those
cheap 90's FX racks, Lexicon, ART, Korg, and many others have a lot
to offer. Mad scientist composers, rejoice
And get some extra midi interfaces, e-mu 2X2 is a good start!

[codec_spurt]

... I will never post on this thread again and I shall never mention the word 'Linux' at KVR again in any thread...

A quick PSA to any & all who read this:

KVR has a Mute Status option, many sites have similar options, by which you can select and dismiss traffic as you see fit. I find it refreshing and restorative to my sanity, and I can always unmute if I want.

The service comes without restrictions. Liberal use is encouraged.

Best,

dp

PS: @codec, Sorry to see you go. Good luck with the Minties !

Cheers mate. Didn't know about the mute button. I'm sorry you are sorry to see me go, but it's nice to know I'll be missed.

I hope it won't impact your life too badly, but thanks for taking the time.

I probably shouldn't have posted this but you know, as a drama queen, I just can't help myself.

[StudioDave]

Greetings,

Had a nice day yesterday. The wife took a couple of the grandkids to Toledo to the Imagination Station, and I stayed home with the dog and my machines. I looked forward to the time, I don't get much alone-time these days. So I fired up SuperCollider3, MEAPsoft, FScape, Sequent, and Aspect, then I whiled away the next five hours experimenting with wacky cut-ups from MEAPsoft and SC3, bizarre sonic transformations in FScape, and some really nice random MIDI generation via SC3's awesome Pattern library, piped through Aspect and mangled by Sequent. (The Random Dub effect in Sequent is wonderful.) I used a custom script for ecasound for quick recordings and built a nice little collection of snippets to use in building future works in Ardour. Btw, SC3 now has an excellent IDE (scide) that is a joy to use.

No, none of the noise was EDM, trance, dubschlep, or anything else normal people would enjoy. But I loved it, it was a glokraw kind of Sunday.

SuperCollider3

http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/

MEAPsoft

http://www.meapsoft.org/

FScape

http://www.sciss.de/fscape/

Loomer (Aspect & Sequent)

http://www.loomer.co.uk/

Best,

dp

[glokraw]

I think you just left me in the dust
But what I lack in expertise, I attempt
to make up for with blind luck. Using Razor
as sound for drum-machine, discovered in some cases,
maximizing the 'glide' knob would yield chords
played on some beats, and changing the ratio
and amp levels of oscillators could do similar feats.

Then came MicroPrism's turn, where using the modal slider
was a nice percussion pitch-shifter, on some of the
woodblock/marimba type of sounds. Next, some chop-shop editing,
and loops sent to stacks-of-raks. If I remember when I wake up.
Discovered a 1.5 gig session a few months back, complete blackout as to
when it went down, but there were a couple keepers in the depths
And it's almost the (next) weekend

[StudioDave]

I think you just left me in the dust

Just to let you know, I replaced Aspect (the demo) with Yoshimi. Still fun.

But what I lack in expertise, I attempt to make up for with blind luck. Using Razor...

I checked out some demo recordings of Razor. Holy Fong, some of the basses were fantastic, ditto for some pads I heard. Loved the graphics.

Only 320 partials though.

Then came MicroPrism...

Also very nice. Some of those mallet sounds reminded me of Roland's MKS70, plus gorgeous effects processing. Are you running it under Linux ? I started to put together the Reaktor player, I think it should work, but I didn't have the time to put into it.

And it's almost the (next) weekend

Time's a-wasting, youngster, get up and at it. You can sleep when you're dead.

Best,

dp

[glokraw]

I use linux for the Reaktor Player, it installs ok, and then gets registered
with Service Center. If you load a purchased instrument,
and later switch to a free Ensemble, the player will know it's time
to enter demo mode. There is a file menu widget, the triangle next to
the magnifying glass, and also the Reaktor gui has a disk
browser pane, folders opened place .rkpr files in the panel just below it,
to then be drag/dropped in the main panel.

The full Reaktor demo also works, as well as
a boat load of Ensembles. I think I'll get the full Prism next time
there is a sale, or a voucher appears.

If I find a barrel of spare synapses laying around unguarded,
(although even a pinch would be a huge upgrade!)
I may even read up on the SuperCollider.
What a great name for an audio system Might be a good future topic
for LWN.
Cheers

[StudioDave]

If I find a barrel of spare synapses laying around unguarded,
(although even a pinch would be a huge upgrade!)
I may even read up on the SuperCollider.
What a great name for an audio system Might be a good future topic
for LWN.

Too late:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/sup ... er3-part-1

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/sup ... er3-part-2

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/sup ... er3-part-3

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/sup ... ook-review

That stuff might get you started down the path, but the language has evolved considerably even since those articles were written. Its GUI integration has been far more successful than the same attempts in Csound (though Csound has the greater resources for audio/MIDI synthesis and processing). I'm also a fan of OO-programming in music languages. SC is based on Smalltalk, not exactly Lisp but still a nice language.

You need to prioritize your synapses. Once you've eliminated sleep as a distraction you'll find it comparatively simple to go without eating too. Good luck !

Best,

dp

[glokraw]

Wow! (cleans the reading glasses...swigs coffee...)

and as if it were magic friday,

http://www.getstudio1337.com/

A shinier newer faster better and Reaper ready version!
Cheers

And I read your article and see a Supercollider is part of
PureDyne, so I can maybe take a look, after bailing the lawn.
Monsoon followed by sun, and its two feet tall in seconds

[jeffh]

The release of PyDAWv3 should be coming very soon, there's only a few more issues left to address... To stir up the hornets next a bit prior to then (and to counter the pot-shot that another obviously scared-shitless-of-me project took), I've written a proper explanation of why Jack != UNIX Philosophy:

http://pydaw.org/wiki/index.php?title=U ... t_wrong%29

Now there's no excuse for anybody to ever misunderstand UNIX Philosophy (and how current Linux audio never practiced it) ever again

[glokraw]

The release of PyDAWv3 should be coming very soon

Hi, do you have something like a 4x4 Midisport midi interface? Curious as to
PyDAW being used to host groups of rackmount midi synths, since so many
are on the market at attractive prices. If you're quick on Craigslist,
you could haul in a decent stack of graybeard Korg, Roland, Alesis, and Yamaha,
for $600, on a slow tuesday.

Combined with the built-ins, that could be pretty suite for
bread & butter, as well as more esoteric creations.
Cheers

[StudioDave]

The release of PyDAWv3 should be coming very soon, there's only a few more issues left to address...

Very cool, I was just checking the site for news yesterday. Can we access git yet or should we wait for a release tarball ?

Best,

dp