From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> "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
>>
>

Thanks. I'll see if I can convert him to LMMS etc  & also I'll try to
get it to run under wine....It's tedious because he's crossplatform for
everything else...

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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