I'm so happy to find this site

[Michael Z Freeman]

Hello,

I'm in Lancaster, England.

I have been making some music - http://myspace.com/djbarney24 - but it's been a while now as some major upheavals in my life interrupted the music making. I am now working on a new set up that I need to allow me to DJ as well. For some reason I need to be making music to allow me to mix with my decks, the two work together.

I was using an ad hoc setup on windows using Rebirth, Jazz midi sequencer, Buzz and an mp3 mixer. I would mostly play instruments live and use drum loops and samples without any prerecorded midi sequencing. I find it an interesting way to work as I tend to get bored very quickly editing lots of midi tracks. It remains to be seen if this way of working will survive in Linux. I already have started becoming familiar with Jack, and have Mixxx and jack rack setup on my EeePC - would you believe that it's possible to route the output of my mixer into my Asus PC jack rack effects and then out to the mixer again ? I even built a PAD to be able to convert my mixer line out into the Asus EeePC mic in.

I am using another machine for the actual studio - the Asus is just for mixing FX. I have started setting up UbuntuStudio on it - at least following their Ubuntu wiki help page for my normal Ubuntu install. I would like to use some VST synths I have, but I wonder if even better things await for me on Linux.

DJ Barney

[studio32]

Welcome! This is a place for a broad area of artists, from hip hop, to DJ to classical to funk to punk to pop to electro to jazz to ....

try first what linux got for you and after that you test your VSTs

[Michael Z Freeman]

Thanks. Wish me luck !

[Yeri]

Welcome !
One thing that has always attracted me from DJing is scratch. It seems that Mixxx / xwax permit to scratch audio files with a timecode vinyl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAqI4HAcQi4. Have you tried it ?

Good to have you here

EDIT: Hey, I like the music in your myspace ! .. it reminds me of trip-hop

Gerard.

[Michael Z Freeman]

Thanks ! Glad you like what's on the myspace site - did you listen to the DJ mix tapes or my tracks ? Any feedback or ideas is appreciated.

Yes, I bought a Serrato record ! I have not tried it yet but I think my Asus EeePC is a bit too slow. It needs very good latency. However I may get a faster laptop in the future.

I managed to get VST synths to load at the command line with dssi vsthost. I can't get them to appear in Rosegarden yet and my realtime kernel seems to have gone up the spout refusing to even boot. But I seem to be on the right track now. I have a dual boot system so I can use Linux for sequencing and good software. If I really need to do something with one of the VST synths I can dual boot into Windows XP for that and record what I do there and use it as a sample or whatever when I boot back into Linux. Something like that anyway.