Re: Music lovers! Cakewalk?
"s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> wrote:
> Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 03:48 +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> > > I've a co-worker I'm trying to convert to Linux. He's a musician, and
> > > his primary app in $REDMOND is something called cakewalk. I've no
> > > idea what that is (I'm not a musician). Is there anything in the
> > > Linux/FOSS world that's equivalent/related/worth looking at?
> > > Suggestions welcome. "apt-cache search cakewalk" turns up nothing
> > > useful (sarge).
> >
> > Cakewalk is (as far as I remember - it's been years) a music
> > notation/midi sequencer program. The closes thing that I know of is
> > Rosegarden and Noteedit - I haven't used either so I can't tell you if
> > it's any good.
>
> Henry, Hodgins, Hans, thanks very much. I'll look into all your
> suggestions. Hans:
>
> > You might also look into Studio64 - it's a Debian based distro that's
> > got all the sound stuff already setup and integrated.
>
> (from the review at www.freesoftwaremagazine.com, mentioned on
> distrowatch):
>
> "So the goal of 64 Studio Ltd. is to create a native x86_64
> distribution with a selected set of creative tools and as much
> integration between them as possible."
>
> ... Specifically for 64 bit systems. I'll have to look into that
> (dunno what he's running yet; still pretty preliminary stages here).
If he is going to install sarge, make sure he installs the alsa-base (I
think) package, in order to use alsa. Alsa is much better suited
(quality, performace) for musicians then oss.
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