Hi Ray, I didn't really read every line, but your orientation towards music and the fact that you're pursuing the use of Linux as DAW really caught me. So I'm saying Hi back to you. Though not a full time musician, I'm a blues music enthusiast and have my own band "Chicken Shack Revival", you can hear some of our rehearsals at http://www.soundclick.com/chickenshackrevival Great to know that there is someone pursuing Linux DAW too. I've been trying out Ubuntu for a while and find it to be quite user friendly to install. Yet pretty enough that my wife take a second look at it :). Mainly wanting to use it as a replacement for windows to do multitrack composition. But these days don't have much time for it. Hope to someday setup a full linux studio that really kicks ass!
Anyways great to know someone in SG who has similar interest as me. The rest of you DAWers should own up too. Maybe can get together some time. Louis "Chicken Shack Revival" ----- Original Message ---- From: Ray Rashif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LUGS <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 16:43:08 Subject: [Slugnet] Introduction: Ray Hi I thought I'd type up a little (but long) "hi-hello" since barging in on discussions all of a sudden may be sending the wrong signal (read: rude). I'm not good with such things anyway - in both virtual _and_ physical reality. We'll all get to know each other better through time and events (I'll try my best to attend them), so I'll keep this Linux- and OSS-oriented. I never knew SLUG was this active, or even _active_. I'd always believed there was close to 0 activity in Singapore with regards to Linux, though I knew there'd be commercial and corporate entities backing up these software to some extent. My participation was - and still is - as far as the HardwareZone, VR-Zone and www.sglnx.com forums. I conclude that most local enthusiasts are born out of work or graduate studies where Linux is used fairly a lot. I for one, got into it due to interest, solely (you may call it passion). Not exactly "new" to Open Source, I _am_ to the local scene since I've yet to attend any sort of meetup. It hasn't been that long either since I first mounted an "ext3", I would say, almost 2 years according to http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showpost.php?p=19072341&postcount=64 (pardon the entire content of the post; it's foolish) and here's something to laugh at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202626 Basically, I was and am an average teenager with strange interests; computers, among others. I really (honestly) don't know why I thought of Linux but most of it was due to a machine which failed to abide by my rules, as far as I can remember. Initially found Ubuntu via Wikipedia's list (or was it just an article?) of "free as in free beer" GNU/Linux distributions, and from the LiveCD experiences I ultimately decided on installing Kubuntu. To this day, I still am of the camp which says Ubuntu (GNOME) is - in cosmetic ways - archaic. Anyhow, after a few trial sessions of both the distributions I planned to submit to Fedora. I was, yet again, unimpressed. Eventually, I ended up back with Ubuntu for some reason. It remained that way for a while until I met Sabayon Linux, from which I had come to appreciate Gentoo for being what it is. Along the way I managed to "try" Freespire, Dreamlinux and eLive. I'm a big fan of the latter for being extremely good with old hardware, so I've religiously followed each and every release while donating to download the images. In short - I love Qt, KDE, Enlightenment, Xmonad, Nano and Kwrite. Early 2007, I deployed a Gentoo system in hopes of transforming it into a Digital Audio Workstation. I'm not a prominent musician, nor am I that well-versed in any instrument. I had a few gigs, shamelessly appeared on the papers a number of times, and worked at Yamaha for a while but that's about it. Primarily a hobbyist without much dough, I just wanted a value-for-money DAW with which I could produce amateur music. Unfortunately, I never did get it right. Stability is key for any such platform, and my "ricer" characteristics slowly took over. From wanting a DAW, it seemed like I changed my mind into wanting something which "doesn't work". I don't know much coding besides scripting in Bash, though I'm in the process of falling in love with Python. I hope to get comfortable with Qt design, Perl and C++ programming soon. Strangely, I find no interest in Java or Ruby. This is where I end my story, with Arch Linux. Indirectly introduced to by a person going by the alias "Balto" in various forums, I'm greatly thankful that my journey was completed with a huge wall in front bearing the message, "This is Arch Linux - where YOU stop." Stability meets power, enough said. As you can probably guess by now, I haven't used that many distributions. In fact, I wouldn't be joking if I said there were less than 5. Whatever it is, I'm not going any further. Arch Linux is where I am, and hopefully will be, until something unexpected occurs. So yes, I'm now back to getting a working DAW up and it's looking good (you can find me preaching about Linux in www.soft.com.sg forum). When the time comes, you will all have a listen ;) Like I mentioned, I'm a hobbyist. Professionally, I do freelance computer repair/administration, traditional (macabre) art, and audio production in the form of sequencing drum tracks and software synthesising - nothing fancy or worthy of mention. I love to write too, even have some leftover copies of novels which I intended to complete when I was much younger. None of them even reach chapter 1. I wonder, though, why I've yet to put up a blog. Maybe I just don't like the act of blogging or find it pointless. I have a few online aliases, namely "schivmeister", "maxhurt", "aeto" and "gutturalpiss" - all of them portraying different personalities to distort perception. Oh my, whom am I kidding with? P.S: You know, you didn't have to read every line of this. Regards Ray Rashif Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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