eeepc and music software

[Gert van Santen]

Jay Vaughan schreef:
>>> for sketching tunes?
>>> Hm ...
>> Yeah, and for experimenting with sound a bit. I don't want to use
>> 20 different little progs to work with...
> 
> 
> 
> This is the typical process:
> 
> 1. Open up my EEE PC.
> 2. Start up alsactrl and notice my MIDI interface hardware (emagic mt4  
> works seamlessly, no install necessary).
> 3. Start up seq24, note that it appears in alsactrl as a module.
> 4. Start up zynaddsubfx, amsynth, etc.  These also appear as modules  
> in alsactrl.
> 5. Make the connections from seq24 to my MIDI interface, so I can play  
> MIDI from the piano controller, then make connections from seq24 to  
> all the softsynths I've started.
> 6. Play.  Record new sequences in seq24, edit, mute, cue, etc.
> 7. Close the EEE PC.
> 
> 8. .. come back later, open it up, keep playing.
> 
> Note: its Linux.  You only have to do all of the above once, when you  
> first start up the machine, then just leave it all running for months  
> and months.  That works!  ;)

Great! I almost can't wait.

This mini laptop market is really developing very fast, so I 
think it might be wise to wait a couple of months. OTOH I am so 
very interested in playing with Linux on a mini laptop with ssd 
drive. And these computers are not really expensive...

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