From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:464e2f96$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>> What app?
>>
> Cubase SE & Propellerhead reason
>
> Adam
>

There appears to be a Linux alternative for Reason - Wired at
http://wired.epitech.net/

http://jonathanfilbert.com/blog/category/music-technology/
Vmplayer Doesn't Play
In a strange experiment, I decided to boot my windows partition into a
virtual machine using vmplayer (warning: Windows wanted to be reactivated,
various software licenses broke, etc.). Reason would not boot, even after
uninstalling and reinstalling in the virtual environment. For an unrelated
reason I ended up booting into safe mode, and on a whim tried to launch
Reason. It worked - with one catch. There is this thing called latency
(delay). In a virtual machine it is severe. Play note, wait, hear sound.
While Reason retains all of its functionality in the virtual machine,
trying to play along with a preexisting track is nearly impossible. It's
like playing an organ from the back of an orchestra, only worse. It is for
all purposes completely useless. This is no fault of Reason, but rather of
the latency that builds up as you layer computer on computer with the
virtual machine.

Wired On The Horizon
There is hope for GNU/Linux and me in the future. Wired, an up-and-coming
program for GNU/Linux promises a sort of Reason-like feel, with the
addition of live audio recording functionality and an open plugin
architecture. Combined with distributions like the also up-and-coming
Ubuntu Studio, GNU/Linux promises to become a powerful platform for
musicians. Wired comes out of a project at Epitech, the European Institute
of Technology.

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