Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:28:27 -0800 From: GothGeek Sysadmin <xyzzy@sysabend.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: We got a mention! Message-ID: <20000229202827.Y61564@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0002291528380.306-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:31:31PM -0800 References: <20000301002313.G31341@cage.tse-online.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0002291528380.306-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:31:31PM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: > > profession (and I in my rare freetime): > > a _decent_ midi-sequencer, harddisk-recording, music destop publishing > > (something like 'coda finale'). > > I forget what the name was, Rosebud or something similiar does > Midi stuff. Even allows for a keyboard input. I belive I installed it > right out of the ports collection, though I don't see it now. I remeber it > being a Linux package though and was increadibly easy to setup. Being a Microsoft-Hater and also a wannabe-musician, I have been fighting with FreeBSD for the last couple months. Running -Current, buying new hardware so I could work around new driver issues faster. Wedging the newmidi driver into this rapidly changing environment. ( Yes, Rosegarden will compile, but it does nothing usefull for me without supporting an MPU401 interface which alas FreeBSD hasnt done out of the box for years ) When I gave up, I even tried linux. Stability and the same changing driver landscape almost drove me to the brink... Seems that people want to support MIDI as being just another chunk of their soundcard. And compared to the commercial software packages, I've tried everything on the 'Sound & Midi Software for Linux' page and they just arnt on the edge where the commercial software is. Even looked at BeOS, but the only package that looks remotely usable is Logic Audio Platinum, which was supposed to be ported last year and still no mention. I love FreeBSD to death. I run on it this laptop, on all my servers, and on a desktop machine at home. But when it came to just wanting to be creative musically, FreeBSD/Linux/etc have just driven me to the edge... So, I'm buying a Mac. ( Hey, I did say I hate Microsoft right? ). I could just throw Win9x on the FreeBSD machine, but I cant bring myself to it. In the last 3 1/2 years I've been using FreeBSD for everything, I've watched it become a very capable *desktop* OS, for everything but the once creative thing I want to work on. *sigh* Sorry for the mostly useless wordage. I've been trying so hard to get that box stable and make FreeBSD usable for me, and its been so painfully frustrating... Its happily running BeOS now not that I'm using it cause the sequencer is horrible, but all the hardware works. Another place to point people looking for Graphics/Audio programs for Linux is http://www.linuxartist.org. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Tom Arnold - "...is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" - Admin Emeritus - Juanita Shrugs. "What's the difference?" - TBI, Ltd - -------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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