On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Neal Sanche wrote:
> Recently however, I've been exposed to programs like SoundForge,
> CakeWalk, Cubase, CoolEdit, and have come to really like them. I don't
> have the time to try and replicate those beautiful programs in the
> Linux environment, and in some cases, I cannot. Lack of Full Duplex
> sound drivers, and stable MIDI support are among the things on my list
> that keep me from doing Music under Linux.
Yup. For so many "user" apps the problem has been lack of documentation, but
here in this department there definitely _is_ a software hole or three as
well. But I swear I've heard talk of full duplex support on the linux-sound
list, possibly for just a handful of soundcards -- most soundcards are not
capable of this, are they? I'm putting a lot of faith in the Linux
UltraSound Project, who have been pumping out free drivers for that
soundcard for a while. Not full duplex (yet), but the drivers are good (and
free). I used to get the impression that something is missing from the sound
drivers that come with Linux, becuase the same company that makes them also
has a commercial version for $20 -- but I think that $20 just means a
printed manual, easier install and tech support.
As for software, check out the stuff at
<http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html>.
Multitrack at
<http://rulhmpc38.leidenuniv.nl/private/multitrack/multitrack.html> is a
cool svgalib mixer program. The problem is that you can't hear as you record
(unless you have full duplex support and/or 2 soundcards).
There are tons of great little programs like
<http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~jams/3MU/> but something that will let you
take this stuff and sequence/edit/combine multiple tracks (sound samples,
not midi) doesn't exist, as far as I know. Something that could do all that
and allow for effects processing as well as synthesis "modules" (like the
GIMP's plug-ins) would change everything.
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