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The drums that I've made (except for hihat that I've borrowed from another drum kit in Hydrogen) are made using ZynAddSubFX.

http://youtu.be/B0C43BOxMpU?t=1m8s

There used to be a Yamaha VL70-m, a sound module that contains nonophonic, physically modeled wind instrument patches in which you can plug in your breath controller and play it. You will need a MIDI to USB controller or an audio interface with MIDI IN for sending MIDI data to your MIDI sequencer, s...

If you have different tastes of text editors, use it. Me? I use vim as I found it easy to work with, even though it does not support the use of mouse, but I am able to get around with using my keyboard just fine. / = find :w - save but do not quit :q! Discard changes and quit. :wq - Save and quit. i...

Yeah. You can build yourself a system with hardware specifications... AMD A10-5800K CPU and CPU in one (APU, or Accelerated Processor Unit) ASRock FM2A85X Extreme4-M Motherboard Crucial Ballistix 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 1866 MHz RAM Seagate Barracuda STBD2000101 2TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive (for $110 in NewEgg ...

If you can keep an open mind, here's one example of how you can make use of a buss track. You can saturate the bass without affecting the original bass track that have effects (if any) in it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDbDeTNHQiQ There isn't an Ardour version of the video, but you can do the sa...

Anything is possible with a synthesizer, such as ZynAddSubFX.

Mine does not sound like a real acoustic bass guitar, but it should be good for a start.

"grep" is "global, regular expression, print." See this Wiki article for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep You'll get used to using command lines as you get familiar with Linux. Have you used a terminal before in your Mac? Mac and Linux are all based in UNIX. Since ...

I don't want to go OT, but I went years before I stumbled across ctrl+r . If you ever do "history | grep something-you-typed-yesterday", you'll love ctrl+r ! Sorry, back on topic. Your reviews are so thorough!!! This will do instead if you don't want to see "grep" in the history...

Wouldn't cadence be able to check to see if Carla is already installed in the system? So if you don't have Carla and try to launch it, Cadence will tell you that you'll need to install Carla, which is separate from an installation of cadence. I'm all for it. Carla's quite a beast and it all makes se...

Compiz is a Window Manager, just like KWin and Mutter. It does the compositing like providing transparency, zooming, window effects like wobbly windows, desktop cube, and any other effects which uses your GPU for rendering your desktop applications in 3D. Well, not completely 3D, except that if you ...

Package 'em up, Falk.

Native VST! Nice.

I have doubts that a Linux terminal (xterm, gnome-terminal, Konsole) can be made to be mouse-friendly. A lot of new users will have a problem with that. Linux terminals date back to the 90s where only keyboards are used. I think that's the reason why I saw the first post to be vague; some thinking t...

As to themes affecting web pages in Firefox, I've never had problems with Google Chrome even when using a GTK theme (chrome:settings -> Use GTK+ theme). As for AdBlock+, CAREFUL with that. Have you read news about the Microsoft's fiasco about enabling "Do Not Track" as the default? If that...

One thing that I'd like to note is if you use the Harrison Mixbus's plugins and display it, you will notice flickering. Maybe because I'm using fglrx with my AMD A10-5700's built-in AMD Radeon HD 7660D? Have a look. DrawingIssuesInHM.jpg If I switch to the oxygen window decorator in KDE 4.9, the onl...

I think you may need to press [TAB] in the terminal and hit "OKAY." Then hit [TAB] again until you see "YES" highlighted and confirm.