[TriLUG] Music, Musicians and the Penguin

[Roy Vestal]

I'll have to check into this hardware. I'm fairly comfortable with the GINA
cards from Echo Audio. I haven't played with the Darla's yet.
www.echoaudio.com
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From: "Michael Alan Dorman" <mdorman at debian.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Music, Musicians and the Penguin


> "Roy Vestal" <rvestal at trilug.org> writes:
> > I'm in a local band (http://www.blackeyedsuzy.com - shameless plug)
> > and I want to be able to rip/burn/etc songs from our demos and
> > eventually setup a digital studio with software much like
> > protools. Anyone have any suggestions on software/hardware setups?
>
> For drivers, ALSA is certainly the option being most actively
> developed and supported these days.
>
> For professional multi-channel cards, the absolute top-end are the RME
> Hammerfall/Hammerfall DSPs (www.rme-audio.com), both of which are well
> supported---you can get 24 channels of digital I/O on these things.
> These are totally non-consumer cards, though, so you end up buying
> outboard A/D-D/A converters, etc.
>
> The second, pro-amateur tier of interfaces are predominantly based on
> the ICE Envy24 chipset---the only one I know by name is the M-Audio
> (midiman.net) Delta-1010, but there are others---which gives.  When I
> shake $600 loose from somewhere I plan to purchase one. :-)
>
> For multi-channel recording, the leading app is probably Ardour
> (ardour.sourceforge.net), which will do a frightening amount of
> stuff---add in the large number of LADSPA plugins, and the ways you
> can interconnect it using JACK (jackit.sourceforge.net), and it's a
> heck of an environment.
>
> PlanetCCRMA (www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software) tries to cut
> the amount of pain for RedHat users when it comes to getting all this
> stuff with its myriad dependencies setup and running.
>
> Mike.
> --
> the piano is firewood, Times Square is a dream -- Tom Waits
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