> I wanted to see if there's a way to set up a home recording > mini-studio using Linux. In Windoze, there's things like Cubase, > Ableton, Reason, Wavelab, etc... What's available in Linux for that > purpose (recording, sequencing, mixing, sound effects), and which of > those does Gentoo have in the Portage tree?
besides the things gerrit aalready mentioned, it's important to understad that you need a low latency soundserver: JACK. At first become familiar with JACK and then try to run only JACK enabled applications. ardour, rosegarden, muse, hydrogen and qjackctl are. Even recent versions of Audacity can be run on top of JACK. JACK cannot (yet) transport MIDI, so for MIDI use the ALSA sequencer instead of the outdated OSS devices /dev/midi*. The ALSA sequencer allows arbitrary MIDI connections between hardware- and software ports. BTW: THe advantage of JACK is not only low latency audio but allowing arbitrary audio connections as well. For support I recommend to join the linux audio user mailing list. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
