Re: home recording to computer

timbo wrote:
On 2008-03-22, Susan <sjd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris wrote:

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Since you're a Linux user, you might want to check out 64 Studio - http://64studio.com/ . It's a distro optimized for sound.

i'm using that! debian based, so it's pretty much a standard linux distro,
but with all the audio software pre-installed for you. not bad.

It's also optimized for low latency, with a realtime kernel, unlike the
stock Debian kernel. Plus the audio software is more up to date than in
Debian, though Free, the lead developer on this project is also a Debian
multimedia developer, so it all gets into the main project eventually.
Plus the guys running the project are really into hearing what users
want, and they're musicians themselves. The head of the project and the
guy who writes the documentation are bass players. Very cool people all
in all!

next on my list of things to buy is a couple of behringer ada8000 mic
preamp/adat interfaces & take the whole setup out live & record the band. be
fun & a nice learning experience as well, & who knows, we could get a few
decent tracks out of it to stick on the end of the next studio cd...

I've just been thinking of getting a laptop with firewire and take that
and my Presonus Firepod over to my drummer friend's house and see how it
all works with the fancy gear he has. (Especially if Rich joins us on guitar!) I'm not terribly inspired to record anything for public consumption here at home, in my living room all by myself with my stupid headphones on. Though it is fun to learn how it all works.

played with hydrogen a bit, that's a pretty cool little drum machine.
there's some nice sounds installed by default, they almost sound like a real
drummer - but they're in time...

Tehehehe, actually, hydrogen has a "humanize" feature to fix that! :-)
But I'd agree, I do think the drums sound pretty good. I was kind of
floored the first time I did the drums for a song I'm learning. And you can import other drumkit sounds too.

dragged out some old 4-track stuff to play with recently, good fun re-mixing
& editiing all that old stuff, although there is some awful stuff i recorded
8 or 9 years ago.. here's a song we roughed up a bit in the rehearsal room
for your enjoyment - this is probably the pick of it all - how many of you
can handle an ogg file?

http://www.number26.org/mp3/big_wheel.ogg

Nice song! I wonder if any of the Windows players handle ogg.

cheers,

timbo.

Good to meet a fellow 64 Studio user on the group.

Cheers!

-Susan

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