Hi. I just bailed out of the windows world in January. So far, I've bounced between Debian and Ubuntu Studio. Recently toyed with 64Studio but it wouldn't install. I've got the Live CD for giggles.
I am mostly a guitar-strummin' folk musician, but I've been hanging out in the electronic music crowd lately and wanting to branch out. I'm also getting popular as a performance poet.
So I guess I just need to do the same thing I did with Cubase LE and wreck my computer several times getting over the learning curve. I want to use everything.
Sort of Newbie from Calgary
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studio32
Re: Sort of Newbie from Calgary
Hi I'm Back! 
@Studio32 - Netherlands, eh? I was actually at the Oval here after the '88 Olympics for some tribal social purpose - a family friend was an athletic dilettante who rode Tour de France, then a triathlon, and trained for the Olympic skeleton team. Kinda crazy.
I'm still a born-again pantheistic Linux evangelist, but now I've switched to Puredyne because I got a netbook and that works better on it, in addition to the famous struggles that Ubuntu Studio has had with Gnome - it's almost all Gnome. Made some good discoveries as a result - MyPaint and Zim desktop wiki are a couple of my favorite new toys.
I've also done a fair amount of live audio now, using both analog gear and Yamaha digital stuff - M7CLs and LS9s. My current push is for LivePA based on SooperLooper with a little bit of AMSynth and Hydrogen thrown in.
I've remixed and mastered parts of my first recording which a friend did in Sonar, and recorded several songs on my own in cartoonish home-recording style (a contest at a local bar last year used a cartoon for the poster). The remixes sound like a sleeping bag being lifted off the speakers - mostly because I'm getting my brain around compression and proper mixing. Calgary has literally squished me onto the road, so I'm trying to see how close I can get to putting my entire rig into my gig-bag.
I have a blog and a Reverb Nation profile where the best parts of the story get told:
http://sodasound.blogspot.com ,
and
http://www.reverbnation.com/themorleyt
@Studio32 - Netherlands, eh? I was actually at the Oval here after the '88 Olympics for some tribal social purpose - a family friend was an athletic dilettante who rode Tour de France, then a triathlon, and trained for the Olympic skeleton team. Kinda crazy. I'm still a born-again pantheistic Linux evangelist, but now I've switched to Puredyne because I got a netbook and that works better on it, in addition to the famous struggles that Ubuntu Studio has had with Gnome - it's almost all Gnome. Made some good discoveries as a result - MyPaint and Zim desktop wiki are a couple of my favorite new toys.
I've also done a fair amount of live audio now, using both analog gear and Yamaha digital stuff - M7CLs and LS9s. My current push is for LivePA based on SooperLooper with a little bit of AMSynth and Hydrogen thrown in.
I've remixed and mastered parts of my first recording which a friend did in Sonar, and recorded several songs on my own in cartoonish home-recording style (a contest at a local bar last year used a cartoon for the poster). The remixes sound like a sleeping bag being lifted off the speakers - mostly because I'm getting my brain around compression and proper mixing. Calgary has literally squished me onto the road, so I'm trying to see how close I can get to putting my entire rig into my gig-bag.
I have a blog and a Reverb Nation profile where the best parts of the story get told:
http://sodasound.blogspot.com ,
and
http://www.reverbnation.com/themorleyt
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Re: Sort of Newbie from Calgary
welcome fellow Canadian. Calgary, land of the Flames.. I'm down here in Toronto. 
nice blog. More info on linux, the better.
nice blog. More info on linux, the better.
Re: Sort of Newbie from Calgary
Hi Chippy,
I took your advice.
I took your advice.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_mu ... dID=178805
These are professional stunt fingers. Do not try this at home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX2LUwG2CwU Windy & Warm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoHY_RtI7k Don't think Twice
These are professional stunt fingers. Do not try this at home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX2LUwG2CwU Windy & Warm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoHY_RtI7k Don't think Twice
Re: Sort of Newbie from Calgary
Nice to see you here Slacker.
Gather everything up that you have and post it into Software and Sequencers or the hardware category.
I think that will do it.
Thanks and nice to have you aboard good ship Linux.
Gather everything up that you have and post it into Software and Sequencers or the hardware category.
I think that will do it.
Thanks and nice to have you aboard good ship Linux.
Slacker G wrote:Hi Chippy,
I took your advice.