Rosegarden 1.4 how do you like it?

[runagate]

Have you Linux people tried this out today?

I've been stalking your threads reading about this Linux world and am not afraid to jump into learning a mountain of info just to get away from using freakin' MS.

I didn't know how what a sequencer or adsr was 2 years ago was so I figure as long as I have reason to believe that my VSTs will still work and I can still score on a piano roll with 1/128th note resolution I'd love to switch to Puppy.

Is the experience of making music as straightforward on Rosegarden now as it would be in my weird little FL/Audacity world?

My only problem thus far is that I've no way of simply trying it out myself prior to diving in headfirst.

[Improv]

Have you Linux people tried this out today?

I've been stalking your threads reading about this Linux world and am not afraid to jump into learning a mountain of info just to get away from using freakin' MS.

I didn't know how what a sequencer or adsr was 2 years ago was so I figure as long as I have reason to believe that my VSTs will still work and I can still score on a piano roll with 1/128th note resolution I'd love to switch to Puppy.

Is the experience of making music as straightforward on Rosegarden now as it would be in my weird little FL/Audacity world?

My only problem thus far is that I've no way of simply trying it out myself prior to diving in headfirst.

If you want a simple way to do all the above,
try downloading the demo cd of Studio to Go!

http://www.studio-to-go.com/index.php?o ... &Itemid=86


(They also are the Rosegarden devs.) Burn to cdr, then you can try it out by running from cd-no install, all set up and ready to go.

Later if you buy Studio to Go, (60 GBP) you can use it off of cd or install to hard drive.

I'm not sure if they have the new Rosegarden in the demo or not-might want to email the devs at the link I gave you above.

[runagate]

So it's like a Linux boot-disk plus a host?
What a cool idea.
I just learned from google that GBP = British Pound.
So that's about 113 USD.

It's tempting, very tempting, to throw XP in the trash.
I only switched to PC so that I could play with VSTs.
Long, long ago I used to be a Mac tech. I even fixed Mac Classics in 1995 or so lol. Not that I have any great love for Apple, either.

I will indeed try this, Improv, and thanks for the suggestion.

[kenn]

So it's like a Linux boot-disk plus a host?
What a cool idea.

Here's another Linux music distro: Musix
http://www.musix.org.ar/en/index.html

... it too is a CD-ROM image that boots completely from the CD-ROM, and you can also install to harddrive later.

.. it has recent versions of Rosegarden, and Ardour and JACK and many other Linux music/audio apps, already configured and ready to use.

... and it's free.

[runagate]

Fantastic!

I believe I'm going to get myself into some trouble with this tonight!

[runagate]

I've got the torrent thing loaded into Azureus.
Glad I finally figured out how to do this crap from
the Sampletorrents site, though I think I screwed up
me, vurt and funky lime's album torrents somehow since
now they seem to be downloading instead of uploading.

It's a good thing these damned computers can help me make music
otherwise I'd probably burn the frustrating thing >:}

[sushishiva]

Its offtopic but interested to know if anyone works with PlanetCCRMA on Fedora Core 5? >> and what are you're experiences with it..
http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/planetccrma ... wosix.html

[LBN]

AGNULA/DeMuDi is another free Linux distro aimed at music/media production.

[fake]

The only way you will get the new version of rosegarden is to compile it yourself as it's not yet available as a package.

I have just compiled it with dssi enabled so I can use vst's in it via the dssi-vst wrapper and wine, the same way as "Studio to Go" does.

Although I have used it before I can't tell much about this new version as I have not had much time with it and to be honest I don't sequence much.
There are some improvments and a lot of small bug fixes and it seems very stable and easy to use.

However, to get the best out of it you need a low latency kernel and one that runs at 1000hz, a lot run at 250hz which is not very good for midi timing.

A quick sreenshot from a few mins ago.





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[runagate]

Interesting, fake.

I've just been given Usine as a present and I'm buried neck-deep in that so Project: Throw XP In The Trash is on the backburner for the moment.

I did finally get the bootable CD to download, though, so I will at the very least discover how much I have to learn about Linux today

[grymmjack]

Have you Linux people tried this out today?

I've been stalking your threads reading about this Linux world and am not afraid to jump into learning a mountain of info just to get away from using freakin' MS.

I didn't know how what a sequencer or adsr was 2 years ago was so I figure as long as I have reason to believe that my VSTs will still work and I can still score on a piano roll with 1/128th note resolution I'd love to switch to Puppy.

Is the experience of making music as straightforward on Rosegarden now as it would be in my weird little FL/Audacity world?

My only problem thus far is that I've no way of simply trying it out myself prior to diving in headfirst.

linux is a blast. it's a deep and dark and mysterious os with tons of cool features and hella performance to be had when configured properly.

i'm ashamed to say i haven't really done much with linux lately. last thing i did was try to get freespire to boot on my notebook (via live cd - no dice, notebook is too weak and doesn't meet the reqs) -- however i did at one point try DeMuDi a debian audio distro. there are others too but i didn't have much luck with the live cd flavors for audio stuff in linux.

jack wasn't working right on the live cd stuff in demudi and i didn't have the patience to f**k with it enough to get it to work (yes i know i should be ashamed - that is the very spirit of linux (to challenge and learn))...

anyway, have you tried demudi?

[Reverse Engineer]

Best of luck to you with linux if you can't even figure out a bittorrent client. j/k

[runagate]

Best of luck to you with linux if you can't even figure out a bittorrent client. j/k

Well, I am a PC tech.
The degree to which I can be bothered to understand something is propotional to whether or not it's going to have anything to do with music. I didn't know how to open a program on Windows when I first saw Fruity Loops if that tells you anything.

[EKen]

Whoever distributes a preconfigured VST ready Linux (maybe free if you buy a book) could have a following. The receptor which you see advertised here runs on a 2400mhz AMD and is faster than most Pentium systems twice as powerful because it runs on Linux. They wrote a very nice host and network protocol which is not freeware, but a lot of users could benefit from a preconfigured VST/Linux distro.

Some plugins do not work because of the security. The other problem is that none of the VST on Linux groups have had success with multi-core or 64/bit.

[Improv]

... 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.