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Steven Coté wrote: > There are lots of packages that I expect aren't in the repositories but > only because I am interested in making music. > > > Ah yes, music production. This is a dark path that I've just recently > started venturing down. In fact, I was playing with the tutorial in > Hydrogen (a wizz-bang drum machine) just last night. > > Well, to reiterate what I was saying before, I'd be surprised if many of > the programs you're looking for can't be found in the repositories. I > know Ardour is for sure. > > With music production software, my experience has been that there's a > lot of variation in terms of user interface between windows and linux > applications. So much so, that it's hard to pick out obvious work-alikes > sometimes. Having said that, I haven't found anything that I could do on > windows that I can't accomplish on linux. Mind you, I am still pretty > novice at all this. > > > If you're looking at building a proper DAW, have you seen dyne:bolic? > http://dynebolic.org/ > > It wasn't for me, because I need my workstation for more than just being > a DAW, but if you don't it might be worth taking a look. > You may also want to have a look at Ubuntu Studio which I believe is aimed more at music/video production, and I'm pretty certain there's a debian variant too (not sure why but 64Studio rings a bell). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html