Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 03:48 +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > I've a co-worker I'm trying to convert to Linux. He's a musician, and > > his primary app in $REDMOND is something called cakewalk. I've no > > idea what that is (I'm not a musician). Is there anything in the > > Linux/FOSS world that's equivalent/related/worth looking at? > > Suggestions welcome. "apt-cache search cakewalk" turns up nothing > > useful (sarge). > > Cakewalk is (as far as I remember - it's been years) a music > notation/midi sequencer program. The closes thing that I know of is > Rosegarden and Noteedit - I haven't used either so I can't tell you if > it's any good.
Henry, Hodgins, Hans, thanks very much. I'll look into all your suggestions. Hans: > You might also look into Studio64 - it's a Debian based distro that's > got all the sound stuff already setup and integrated. (from the review at www.freesoftwaremagazine.com, mentioned on distrowatch): "So the goal of 64 Studio Ltd. is to create a native x86_64 distribution with a selected set of creative tools and as much integration between them as possible." ... Specifically for 64 bit systems. I'll have to look into that (dunno what he's running yet; still pretty preliminary stages here). -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
