bonjour de Berlin
Dear all,
i am new to the forum and to Trisquel as well.
I play the guitar (solo and with my group), write and arrange tunes and recently managed to start recording with GNU/Linux.
Cheers
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Hello and welcome to this forum/mailing list! Always great to hear about people using free software. I have a friend who is a musician as well, he writes his music with MacOS however...
Do you think using GNU/Linux as an OS for arranging/writing music gives you some advantages, or maybe disadvantages? I've heard about lots of programs made specifically for professional musicians, but how good are those?
Hai,
thanks!
Arranging/writing music using GNU/Linux is fine.
I do all my writing in Musescore and just started recording with Ardour.
Musescore has some flaws but nothing mayor and i find workarounds so far. The good thing is(appart from that it is libre) that it does not include any of the 8u1l$h!t-features like the commercial score editors do.
In Ardour i am not too experienced but so far it all works fine (as long as the hardware cooperates)
I have been trying for 2 years to get a FW soundcard working on my laptop and i recently found out it did not work due to the wrong FW chipset. On an old laptop it did work but it was too slow so now i bought a new desktop...
Macs are pretty but i do not like handcuffs, the Firewire cards are bad as well.
cheerz :)
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I must confess that I don't know what a FW sound card is. You could perhaps take a look at h-node.org to see if you can find hardware that will work.
A FW sound card is a external DAC which connects to your system via Firewire.
Most professional "soundcards" for music production are firewire "soundcards".
I mean like those audio interfaces:
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.family&ID=FWinterfaces
Exactly, i have this one: http://echoaudio.com/products/audiofire-12
FireWire chipsets by TexasInstruments work fine.
Drivers are developed by http://www.ffado.org
The advantages are:
-more channels
-in/out simultaniously
-better quality AD/DA conversion
External sound cards can be found USB too.
Cheers