On 3/6/09, johnbs <johnbs@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everybody, > could somebody please give me the load down on recording quality > music with Fedora 10? What programmes should I use, etc in fact > everything! My friends tell me I would have to quit Fedora and go to > Windows : an idea which does not please me. Thanks a lot. Motto: "God save me from my friends; from my enemies I can protect myself." (Voltaire?) The furthest you _may_ have to go is a realtime kernel and/or an audio-oriented linux distribution. Certainly not windows. Install audacity and, if that guitar you want to record is electric, rakarrack (though with rakarrack you're better off compiling the latest version; but that can wait). audacity is for recording and mixing audio tracks, and rakarrack is a guitar effects processor. rakarrack may be a jack-only application, which means that you also need to install jackd and qjackctl (the latter is not absolutely necessary, but it's a simple way to connect jack applications); but if you're into audio, you'd have to do that sooner or later anyway. If you want other instruments to go with your guitar, install hydrogen (drum machine), qsynth/fluidsynth, and rosegarden (sequencer and notation editor). mma is very capable accompaniment-generator (not packaged for Fedora, but very easy to install). Join the linux audio list (http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user); listen to this beautiful "linux only" song by Dave Phillips http://linux-sound.org/audio/springof23.ogg and ask your friends if windows could make it sound better :-); have a look at his articles in Linux Journal; and see if you still consider moving to windows for audio recording. Disclaimer: I've been dabbling in linux audio for 2 months or so, so I'm not an expert at all. (Still, I'm having pretty good results with stock F10). Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
