Somewhere between Live and Reason?

jksuperstar

It's only at Beta 0.11, but looks very good. I'm in the middle of bringing this up...

mosc · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject:

This looks very promissing. Please keep us up to date as you get some experience with this. If these guys want a user or developer forum, please let them know they can have them on electro-music.com. Idea

jksuperstar · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject:

Howard (any anybody),

There is a Live CD distrobution called "Mediainlinux" (www.mediainlinux.org) which has Wired bundled. That will boot your system without installing linux, and give you an idea of how this works (as of the build date of mediainlinux).

To help, you might look into ALSA (the linux audio driver system) and Jack (Linux's version of Rewire). You'll need to know how those systems work to get sound properly. To help with that, "lspci", "lsusb" and "modprobe" are system utilities that help identify what hardware you have (on the pci or usb bus), and to load the appropriate drivers for it, if the automatic hardware detection doesn't detect your particular audio card. The windowing system this live CD uses is called "fluxbox", if you boot up and find yourself not knowing what to do next. That can be found here: [url]fluxbox.sourceforge.net[/url]

I have not run Wired on mediainlinux yet, because my hardware has limited support, and I have to do some heavy configuration. However, if you have a high-bandwidth connection, it only costs you the time to down load & burn an .ISO image to CD. The whole LiveCD thing is so cool.

Also, this liveCD has "FreeJ" and "EffectTV", real-time video programs (I know your interested in that!), and lots of other video goodies. The mediainlinux site lists only three or four video/audio programs, but the CD has hundreds (literally).

mosc · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject:

I'm so totally absorbed with the electro-music 2005 event that I can't take this course at this time. My soundcard it a MOTU 828 MKII and my MIDI interface is a Unitor8 on a serial port. I suspect these aren't the best choices for a quick and dirty Linux music box.

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:48 am Post subject:

I think the 60 USD M-Audio 2496 Audiophile card is well supported. I have that card myself. I have installed it in one of the old macs I use for virtual instruments. It is pretty decent.

nescivi · Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 94 Location: Montreal

MOTU is not very nice. They don't want to give the Linux Audio developers details about their hardware, so the developers can't write a driver for it...

I don't know about the Unitor8...

mosc · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:04 am Post subject:

I would probably build a new machine for a Linux musicbox, complete with more friendly audio card and midi interface.