From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 1:48:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F67A37B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B7543E81 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tapeworm@insekta.org) Received: from [12.246.25.94] (helo=shiva.insekta.org) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 17pm7g-0001a3-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:48:20 -0700 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:46:16 -0700 From: erk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-Id: <20020913014616.74ffb393.tapeworm@insekta.org> In-Reply-To: <006501c25ada$c0286b80$0a00a8c0@groovy3xp> References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> <20020912192929.B829F480C14@pfepa.post.tele.dk> <006501c25ada$c0286b80$0a00a8c0@groovy3xp> Organization: the insekta organization X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 00:05:09 -0400 dfolkins wrote: > > [snip] > > But Windows is better? ... what am I missing out on? well, for your uses, you aren't..but, for guys like me, who do heavy-duty audio work, freebsd *is* lacking. i use it as my main desktop, but if i want to do much electronic music work, i have to switch over to windows for it. spiralsynth, audacity, etc are great programs, but there's a serious lack of apps like native instruments reaktor (a fully-patchable, virtual modular synth) or absynth, or even step-sequencers like fruityloops. someone will probably jump up here and say, "yeah, but there's dap and ecasound and etc!" sorry, that doesn't cover all my bases.. i'm hoping to write some stuff down the road, but i'm just barely getting started programming.. it's going to be a long while before anything substantial shows up from my end. i just hope there are a few other people lurking around here with an interest in that sort of thing. maybe a couple ports of linux audio stuff will happen, or better yet, some native freebsd audio software. i'd love to see a step-sequencer that supports little more than ladspa plugins and .wav/.ogg/.mp3 formats, and has it's "features" as individual channel ADSR, oscillators, and filters. load up some plugs, about a dozen samples, and spiralsynth, and you could do some very cool stuff. err..i think i got off my point here. sorry :p - erik, wondering if any other freebsd users want to be able to use it for electronic music. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message