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June 12th, 2008
03:29 pm - MIDI support in Linux (using a Creative sound card)
It's harder than it really should be to find information on how to get Linux to play midi files. You might well ask "Why would I want to play midi files? They're shit!" And you'd be right, but just in case anyone does want to listen to them, here is some information that I've managed to glean from various sources.
This information applies to sound cards that use an emu10kx chip. I think these are Creative cards - I'm not sure if any other cards use that chip. This includes emu10k1 models (SoundBlaster Live! series) and emu10k2 models (Audigy series, though Linux will list it as emu10k1. Don't worry about it.) It might also be useful for older AWE32 and AWE64 cards. I don't know if it will be useful for X-Fi cards (which use an emu20k1 chip).
( Geekery )
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December 15th, 2007
09:03 pm - If music was spelled with totally different consonants, Linux music would be a palindrome.
It's quite old (four years, which is probably a couple of decades in computer years) but here's an interesting article on music production in Linux. If the take-home message of that article is what I think it is, then I need no longer worry about being tempted away to Mac just to make music. The more I can do without Windows, the better. I think it wasn't then, and isn't now the case that Linux is as good as those other systems. But that'll come.
I really like the idea of a Linux distribution dedicated to music production, but even if I can get some half-decent software for my current Linux setup I'll be in a better position than I was. In fact, if I can do that, Windows will be reduced to my gaming platform, and Cedega's threatening that position, too.
I think I need a new soundcard, too. One dedicated to music production would be better than the Creative I'm using right now. I'm playing games less and less (apart from FretsOnFire, obviously) and have less and less need of a gaming sound card.
(Now I just need to figure out why my external drive is being mounted as read-only in Linux all of a sudden and, more specifically how to fix that. It says the volume is dirty, whatever that's supposed to mean.)
One thing that really thrills me is the idea that I could, in fact, put some music production functionality on The Mother of All Wristwatches. Think of a cool melody on my way to uni and I'd barely even have to slow my walking!
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December 5th, 2007
01:06 am - Hooray!
I got my sshd working!
At least I think I did. I ssh'd out to the computing science computers and ssh'd from there back to my own computer. So basically I was logging in remotely to a local computer... BUT if I can remember my IP address I should be able to actually log into my home computer from uni, now. Which means I have no more excuses for "forgotten" homework. Bugger.
I also changed my window manager to use XGL, so now I can... well, see what ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lonely_minotaur did with it:-
I haven't quite got it there yet, but I've got it doing nice things. It's pretty.
I didn't actually do anything I meant to do tonight, though.
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October 28th, 2007
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