[A6] Re: off-topic: linux audio

[Chris Pickett]

Will Yardley wrote:

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>If you're serious about this, I would do some googling around
>  
>

Thanks for the links.  It's funny how different people find different 
things with google.  Tim Kugel also sent me some stuff.

It turns out my sound card manufacturer released ALSA drivers for my 
pcmcia sound card, so that's fine.  My Edirol UM-880 MIDI interface has 
some lines supporting it somewhere, 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/alsa/alsa-kernel/usb/usbmidi.c?rev=1.3 
but I really have no idea if it will work.  No other useful googlable 
information on that one.  Apparently on Mac it runs on some generic 
USB-MIDI driver for CoreMIDI or something, so if it works on generic 
Linux support for USB-MIDI that could be okay.  In terms of sequencers 
... I don't have a lot of money nor patience for upgrade-ware that 
doesn't easily do what I need it to, nor money for a $3000 computer at 
this point.  Rosegarden and Ardour and Jazz look okay.  At the very 
least basic things like getting a MIDI filter set up to convert NRPN's 
to CC's and back again should be relatively easy (I mean, how hard can 
it be to write filters that do that???), whereas in w2k it really seems 
to destabilize everything (see previous posts about MIDI-Ox and MIDI-Yoke).

You know ... mostly it's because I'm thinking about putting Linux on my 
laptop already for other reasons, and I was just wondering if I'd be 
okay.  Sounds doubtful, and I'll keep a dual-boot system for a while I 
suppose.

Cheers,
Chris