[gentoo-user] GarageBand

[gentoo-user] GarageBand

[Ian K]

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Hi there,
My friend who is new to Linux is wondering if there is a program like
Garageband
for Linux. The big thing he would want is the ability to play different
instruments
on an on screen keyboard.
Any thoughts?
Ian

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Re: [gentoo-user] GarageBand

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   Take a look at Rosegarden-4, Muse & Ardour. None of them duplicate
Garage Band but they probably represent the most mature of the Linux
'major' audio apps. A fun app, but very different from Garage Band,
would be Free Wheelin'. You can play it from a keyboard, and create
fun looping patterns.

   Your friend is not alone in his desires. For the 4 years I've been
doing Linux based audio I've wished, cajoled & begged for something to
replace Acid Pro. There is interest but no developer who'd been
willing to take up the mission and go make it happen.

   Hope this was of interest.

Cheers,
Mark

On 8/26/05, Ian K <omega_2_1@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi there,
> My friend who is new to Linux is wondering if there is a program like

Have fun,
Mark
> Garageband
> for Linux. The big thing he would want is the ability to play different
> instruments
> on an on screen keyboard.
> Any thoughts?
> Ian
> 
> 
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] GarageBand

[A. Khattri]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:

>    Your friend is not alone in his desires. For the 4 years I've been
> doing Linux based audio I've wished, cajoled & begged for something to
> replace Acid Pro. There is interest but no developer who'd been
> willing to take up the mission and go make it happen.

Hey Mark, have you checked out Agnula?

(Do a Google for "Agnula GNU" ;-)


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Re: [gentoo-user] GarageBand

[Mark Knecht]

On 8/26/05, A. Khattri <ajai@bway.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> >    Your friend is not alone in his desires. For the 4 years I've been
> > doing Linux based audio I've wished, cajoled & begged for something to
> > replace Acid Pro. There is interest but no developer who'd been
> > willing to take up the mission and go make it happen.
> 
> Hey Mark, have you checked out Agnula?
> 
> (Do a Google for "Agnula GNU" ;-)

Yes, I've followed it for 3-4 years although I never ran it. I ended
up running PlanetCCRMA for about 2 1/2 years since I start with Redhat
anyway. It works really well for the audio apps they provide, but when
you decide you want access to other non-audio apps RPM distros get too
difficult to manage.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

This is a painless way for Linux newbies to get lots of audio apps
quickly. An FC3 install is about 45 minutes and the apps are loaded
within an hour, including initial system updates. The Planet is really
well supported out of Stanford and the guy who runs the whole thing
(Fernando) is really great. However, in the end it's no where near as
stable as Gentoo and I actually get really good latency from the
standard Gentoo kernel so I'm quite happy here.

- Mark

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