Recording software for Linux?

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Anyone know of a good recording software for Linux? I have a computer I recently converted to Linux (I now have a WinXP system and a Mandrake Linux system, 2 separate computers).

Anyway, Cakewalk doesn't come in a Linux flavor. What's a good recording software that does? I have a 40GB and a 50GB hard drive in the Linux machine, with either 256MB or 384MB RAM (I forget which), and a Celeron processor @ 733MHz.

My windows box has a 120GB Hard drive, 3 GHz processor, and 1GB of RAM.
 
Is there drum functionality similar to that of Cakewalk?
 
Browsing through the features....It says "Ardour is a fully-featured digital audio workstation, similar to other software like ProTools, Nuendo, Sonar and Logic, and capable of replacing analog or digital tape systems"

However it does go on to say :

"Ardour is not:
a sound file editor
a MIDI sequencer (though that is planned)
a loop-based music system "

So the answer is...um....maybe ? :)

Sorry man can't help you more than that....

Wouldn't hurt to try it.
 
In Linux you can have different pieces of audio software (Ardour, drum machine, midi sequecers) running in sample perfect sync as Jack audio server clients. You can even route audio and midi data streams between different programs as you will. It's very flexible system as you can have for example Ardour, Hydrogen the drum computer and Rosegarder the midi sequencer running together and route drum computer's and sequencer's outputs thru Ardour's mixer channels same way as if they were audio tracks Ardour was playing back from disk.
 
mjr said:
Anyone know of a good recording software for Linux? I have a computer I recently converted to Linux (I now have a WinXP system and a Mandrake Linux system, 2 separate computers).
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http://linux-sound.org/

Since you're running a Mandrake system, pay particular attention to the link"Thac's rpms" in the "Linux Audio Bundles & Distributions" section. You should be able to find the major apps packaged for Mandrake there.

For your faster system, you might also want to check out the link to AGNULA in the same section. They offer a bootable CD (which you can download and burn), which will give you an install-free linux audio system to work with. Everything runs right off the CD and ramdisk. Naturally, this one likes a fast system with plenty a RAM.
 
PeteHalo said:
In Linux you can have different pieces of audio software (Ardour, drum machine, midi sequecers) running in sample perfect sync as Jack audio server clients. You can even route audio and midi data streams between different programs as you will. It's very flexible system as you can have for example Ardour, Hydrogen the drum computer and Rosegarder the midi sequencer running together and route drum computer's and sequencer's outputs thru Ardour's mixer channels same way as if they were audio tracks Ardour was playing back from disk.
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Hi Pete

I just DLd the new DeMuDi Live 1.1.1 ISO and tried it out. My C-Port sound card was detected on boot up and I was able to multitrack in Ardour.

However...
There is a flaw in this distro that screws up the install via knoppix-hdinstall script. I have DLd a supposed fix.

Ardour shipping with the DeMuDi live 1.1.1 seems way old compared to the Ardour home page so I DLd the latest tarball.

Also got ALSA-tools for the envy24 mixer to control my C-Port at the hardware level.

As a guy familiar with windoze only, I am a bit at sea trying to simply navigate around and use the Konsole command prompt to install these various upgrades. My messages on several Linux message boards have gone un-noticed. You seem way more familiar with Linux and I would appreciate any suggestions you might offer to help me get this configured on my PC.

I'd like to bid adieu to windoze and Linux offers the promise of letting me get my audio work done on that platform.
 
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