Sound studio

[hunter_ace]

Ok here goes am hopeing to get a little help on this issue. I am working with a friend to setup up a sound studio for recording. Mostly local bands that need to make cheap demo's or would like to distribute their music free online via bittorrent. I have been looking at some of the M-Audio solutions but all the software is OS-x or windows based.

I know all the software is out there and i have been working on locating it which is not that big a deal.

but id like to know if anyone has something similar already setup and any recomendations as in what professional cards are the best supported. He is useing a debian based distro called xandros i have played with some and it seems to be a ok distro (disto can change if needed thats not a problem).

any help here would be greatly appreciated

thanks (oh on side note there really isnt a budget for the card but id like to keep it under $1500)

 

[hunter_ace]

I have been playing with the debian based agnula distro. anyone got any other recomends for me to check out?

 

[CCMCornell]

I don't know anything about music recording, but I did stumble across some stuff while trying to enable sound on my Linux system at the ALSA home page. The Linux Audio Users' Guide seems to give help on setting up some recording systems. You can find it here:

http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php

The main ALSA page is:
http://www.alsa-project.org

 

[jheine]

Can't really help you out on the M-Audio cards, though something in the back of my head vaiguely remebers it being Linux compatable. I think I saw it on the same page that told me I couldn't use my MOTU 828 in Linux because they won't develop drivers or release specs for their firewire based hardware. I'll post the page if I can find it again.

As for another distro, keep an eye on Dyne:Bolic. The current release is 1.4.1. It's a live cd that allows nesting of just the /etc and /home directories to a HDD or USB drive; docking, which allows you to use the distro without keeping the cd in the drive by copying the /dyne folder to a HDD drive (still need the CD for bootup), and automatically configures itself as an OpenMosix Cluster node. It's a bit rough around the edges, but they're currently working on Dyne II, based on Linux From Scratch, which sounds really promising.

Jarrett

 

[linux_0]

Ok here goes am hopeing to get a little help on this issue. I am working with a friend to setup up a sound studio for recording. Mostly local bands that need to make cheap demo's or would like to distribute their music free online via bittorrent. I have been looking at some of the M-Audio solutions but all the software is OS-x or windows based.

I know all the software is out there and i have been working on locating it which is not that big a deal.

but id like to know if anyone has something similar already setup and any recomendations as in what professional cards are the best supported. He is useing a debian based distro called xandros i have played with some and it seems to be a ok distro (disto can change if needed thats not a problem).

any help here would be greatly appreciated

thanks (oh on side note there really isnt a budget for the card but id like to keep it under $1500)

Great suggestions so far :-D

Software wise you might want to check out http://freshmeat.net/ and run a search for different audio tools.

This might be a good start:

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=audio+recording&section=projects&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

Here's an interesting article:

http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/linux-audio.ars


Here's the OSS compatible sound card list:

http://www.opensound.com/osshw.html

and the ALSA compatible sound card list:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=All#matrix


This might be a little dated ( 2004 ) but might help:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:fKPGUfE3F9oJ:www.linuxjournal.com/article/7205+professional%2Bsound%2Bcard%2Blinux&hl=en&lr=&strip=1


Sorry the site wasn't loading for me so the google cache was the way to get to it.

For streaming check out icecast http://icecast.org/

Good Luck :-D

 

[jheine]

Another thing to avoid, unless they did something to greatly improve, is Via systems. The Ardour system requirements has a link to this article, showing the latency downfalls of the Via chipset, especially on ITX (Epia) systems. This really bummed me out, as I was thinking of getting a couple, along with the single space rack case that holds two ITX systems, for use in the cluster. They also recommend M-Audio and RME Hammerfall series audio interfaces.

Jarrett

 

[linux_0]

I would recommend a Socket 939 + nForce4 + a sound card from the compat lists above with hardware audio acceleration.