From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 22:25:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43E516A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:25:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.eugeneglass.com (64-42-83-115.atgi.net [64.42.83.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCB543D31 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:25:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jakemsr@jakemsr.com) Received: from funk.gsky.dom (64-42-83-114.atgi.net [64.42.83.114]) by www.eugeneglass.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j03MY3em016557; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:33:41 -0801 (PST) Received: from funk.gsky.dom (jakemsr@localhost.gsky.dom [127.0.0.1]) by funk.gsky.dom (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j03MRu1j027182; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:27:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jakemsr@localhost) by funk.gsky.dom (8.13.1/8.13.0/Submit) id j03MRuED029629; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:27:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:27:56 -0800 From: Jacob Meuser To: Michael Nottebrock Message-ID: <20050103222756.GA8911@funk.gsky.dom> References: <20050103195828.GA7399@kender.sians.org> <200501032150.49190.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20050103211452.GC28364@kender.sians.org> <200501032248.03774.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501032248.03774.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: professional sound studio with freebsd, anyone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:25:18 -0000 On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:47:59PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Monday, 3. January 2005 22:14, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:50:44PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > On Monday, 3. January 2005 20:58, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > > > P.S. Currently the studio i've been working in was based on > > > > win/cubase/HALion .. I'd like similar quality.. > > > > > > Not there yet. On any platform. > > > > Ok, then the best one can have using open source. I've heard > > some work of just ecasound, running w/o X in the past and the > > work was quite good. > > Jacob's reply in this thread had a fairly comprehensive list. A substantial > part of that list isn't available on BSD though (and there's no MIDI support > in any recent FreeBSD release to boot), so Linux is indeed the platform of > choice for a strict open source approach to music production. jack is in freebsd ports. does it work? if so, lots of the currently- being-developed software, like ardour, should work on FreeBSD. --