Here I am :-)
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:03 pm
Hi all,
I'm a kid of 46 years
I'm not a musician but I've always been curious about how to produce music. When I was a young boy I was fascinated by music of Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and many other groups that made extensive use of electronics. When I was 18 I've found an old Farfisa VIP 400 combo keyboard in the basement of a friend house and asked him if he could lent it to me.It required a little 'maintenance but nothing serious, cleaning the contacts, potentiometers and some welding for connectors. "Played" for a while with this keyboard and two tape recorders. During the last year of college I got a computer to write the thesis. It was a pentium 90. I bought a sound blaster with wavetable synthesis and a Roland PC 200 Mk2 master keyboard and I enjoyed a lot playing with some sequencing program that ran under Windows. I'm not able to play an instrument,
when I write "play" I mean that it was a game, nothing serious. After the end of my study I had to change town several times to find a job and I had not time to cultivate this hobby. 3 years ago decided to use LINUX for my home computer. By the time I had available my old master keyboard and a sound card Echo Mia MIDI I had sold from one of my co-worker and I tried to install Ubuntu studio but after several attempts I gave up because I could not get any results, only a flurry of XRUN in jack. At night when I came home from work I was too sleepy to look on the internet to find solutions to problems, and properly configure my system
Last year surfing on the internet I found an ad for the sale of some-called "vintage" equipments. I bought from a young guy who was not satisfied from the unit because it was too obsolete and complicated , a KORG M1 R EX rack. After changing the battery and re- upload presets with a utility for windows I connected it directly to the master keyboard with a midi cable and trying out the various sounds, it came back the desire to try again to use linux and some simple program for multi-track sequencer.
I hope to find on this forum useful tips to realize and optimize my workstation.
Now do I have a motherboard with 64-bit quadcore AMD processor and an SSD drive. I do not understand why I should not be able to do the same things that I did with an old Pentium 90 and an operating system like win 3.11
Maybe I should choose the right distribution and reinstall the operating system
I hope I have not bored you with my story.
Good night.
WurlyCat
I'm a kid of 46 years
I'm not a musician but I've always been curious about how to produce music. When I was a young boy I was fascinated by music of Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and many other groups that made extensive use of electronics. When I was 18 I've found an old Farfisa VIP 400 combo keyboard in the basement of a friend house and asked him if he could lent it to me.It required a little 'maintenance but nothing serious, cleaning the contacts, potentiometers and some welding for connectors. "Played" for a while with this keyboard and two tape recorders. During the last year of college I got a computer to write the thesis. It was a pentium 90. I bought a sound blaster with wavetable synthesis and a Roland PC 200 Mk2 master keyboard and I enjoyed a lot playing with some sequencing program that ran under Windows. I'm not able to play an instrument,
when I write "play" I mean that it was a game, nothing serious. After the end of my study I had to change town several times to find a job and I had not time to cultivate this hobby. 3 years ago decided to use LINUX for my home computer. By the time I had available my old master keyboard and a sound card Echo Mia MIDI I had sold from one of my co-worker and I tried to install Ubuntu studio but after several attempts I gave up because I could not get any results, only a flurry of XRUN in jack. At night when I came home from work I was too sleepy to look on the internet to find solutions to problems, and properly configure my systemLast year surfing on the internet I found an ad for the sale of some-called "vintage" equipments. I bought from a young guy who was not satisfied from the unit because it was too obsolete and complicated , a KORG M1 R EX rack. After changing the battery and re- upload presets with a utility for windows I connected it directly to the master keyboard with a midi cable and trying out the various sounds, it came back the desire to try again to use linux and some simple program for multi-track sequencer.
I hope to find on this forum useful tips to realize and optimize my workstation.
Now do I have a motherboard with 64-bit quadcore AMD processor and an SSD drive. I do not understand why I should not be able to do the same things that I did with an old Pentium 90 and an operating system like win 3.11
Maybe I should choose the right distribution and reinstall the operating system
I hope I have not bored you with my story.
Good night.
WurlyCat