Hola Richard Brayshaw: > Hola Marcos > > >> CPU upgraded to PentiumIII (450 MHz) with pre-2000 machine and > >> mobo 192 MB RAM, but I plan to upgrade to 384 MB soon (mobo has 3 > >> slots which only seem to read a max of 128 MB dbl-sided RAM per > >> slot) two 5 GB hard drives Sound Blaster Live! Platinum card > > > > Low CPU specs, but, it depends on what are you trying to do.. could > > you change the CPU? > > I'm not sure if a faster CPU will work on my system. Anyway, the > mobo speed might be the limiting factor, which would make a faster > CPU a bit pointless. I may be wrong and will have to check up on > this. > > On the creative side, I try to keep my recordings as simple as > possible: it's mainly acoustic music with vocals and sparse > percussion, usually no full drum kits and never more than 16 tracks. Fine > I've had a look at Audacity and Rosegarden, but couldn't get either > working (that was before putting in the SB Live! card though). Well, and then? > I've > got Cakewalk Express Gold running on my Windows system; it has it's > limitations, but it's almost perfect for my needs (a simple > sequencer, which allows a combination of MIDI and analog tracks). > > Is Jack essential or would it be possible to set up my system using > Audacity and some basic sequencer? Is not essential, audacity doesnt works with JACK, and you can run timidity, qsynth, hydrogen, zynaddsubfx with Rosegarden without JACK... but, in that case, you will have to record the output of the MIDI software synths with something like audacity and setup you mixer (ie: gnome-alsamixer, etc) to record from _wave_ output, ¿ok? If you use your internal SB chip to load soundfonts (asfxload file.sf2) you have to enable "Synth" output rec (capture), ¿ok? > I've yet to explore the whole > realm of soundfonts as the general MIDI stuff works fine for me. Ok, try with Rosegarden + a little soundfont, not bigger than 30mb, loaded into your soundcard. There is a good Rosegarden tutorial into the rosegarden's web page. > >> How does Musix differ to Demudi? > > > > It's more up to date, and it's easier for newbies, it's a live-cd > > but can update old musix or knoppix HD installations (aldo > > Debian/etch installations) > > Well then I qualify! I'm going through the Musix website now and I > like what I see... I'll have to start working on my Spanish! No! it's almost 99.9% in english ¿why spanish? > I like > the idea behind Linux and Libre software in general, and Musix 0.5 > might be just what I need. > > Anyway, thanks for the reply. That's ok, but I suggest you to get a better CPU, good luck Oh, i forgot, you can subscribe to: https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/musix-users > Cheers4now > > Richard > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please find our disclaimer at http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > <<<<gwavasig>>>> -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode