On 04/08/12 11:39, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Saturday 07 April 2012 21:04:41 Tony wrote:
Hello!
Is anybody aware of any talented producers who produce their music
primarily on FreeBSD?
Thanks!
Tony
Man, that has been my dream for a good while!
Ardour is a fine multitrack but no MIDI, at least on FreeBSD. And FBSD itself
has lots of issues with MIDI.
Besides that, there is the driver problem with most professional sound boards.
I am going to attempt something a quite bit out of my league which is try to
port the alsa drivers for my echo Gina3G board to FBSD. If I can manage to do
that, then I believe the rest will fall on my lap by gravity.
I hope I don't blow up my desktop.
I'm eager to read the replies to the OP.
I have. Or more accurately my wife and co have, with me behind the
wheel. My wife is a musician and music teacher, and we only use FreeBSD,
so its a given here (and a massive drive for me to find a way to support
it).
We used simple tools: audacity, rosegarden, and hydrogen. We used a usb
yamaha sound board, and a ribbon mic for the vocals.
The biggest problem here is that rosegarden refuses to use jack for midi
transport now, so even though there is a jack_umidi daemon in the ports
it still wont pick it up. I'll have to look at another app like ardour
and see if it is better there. Other than that, all good.
Incidentally, the reason for the emphasis on rosegarden is that it does
midi and audio multitrack; as well as notation editing. Apparently
they're hell bent on only using alsa (God only knows why - must have a
death wish or something...), with marginal support for jack. Hence they
only support midi through alsa, not jack. Madness...
The usb audio was a good call; the uaudio driver worked well in our case
with jack, and given all work was done on a laptop it made sense. These
days I think it makes more sense because of the portability, not to
mention if the power happens to go off in the midst of a take you can
keep going and finish the track ;)
The only other option that would be ideal would be firewire audio - if
that ever comes to FBSD. I think there may be some support through jack,
but I haven't investigated that fully yet.
And dont forget lilypond for notation... :)
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