Professional musician wants to use Ubuntu

[John Doe]

Not to take away from ubuntu here but your friend may also want to  
consider an apple computer. Apple is unix based so its a lot like  
ubuntu, but apple has a wide range of creative software made for and  
by professionals - something you might not find a lot of with us  
coding nerds in our open source work. LOL obviously you'll pay a lot  
more but if its something he's serious about for the very long term  
the money is worth it. Just a thought.

And I'm not bashing ubuntu by the way. I love open source absolutely  
but in this case it is harder to find professionals that team up with  
an open source tech guy to do the pro Bono work.

All the best.

Sent from my iPod

On Jun 8, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Peter N Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 01:09:49 -0700
> Jacob <jacobchappelle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a number of softwares here that a professional musician would
>> like to try with Ubuntu. He currently uses these softwares on Windows
>> XP Pro (Acid Pro 6, Cubase LE, Live 6, Kinetic and Music Creator and
>> a large number of VST plugins and instruments, and DXi too. I own
>> Kore of NI.), but would like to know if these have ever been run on
>> Linux or Ubuntu as he has had an ocean of problems with Windows.
>>
>> Does anyone out there have any experience with these mentioned
>> softwares?
>>
>> Also can anyone make any recommendations regarding some professional
>> software under Linux for a musician who does all his own mixing,
>> editing, and recording?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in Advance,
>>
>> Jacob Chappelle
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>
> Jacob,
>
> Check out this site:
>
> http://ubuntustudio.org/
>
> It may give you some ideas. As for running Windows programs on  
> Linux, a
> program call Wine can work. But I've made a quick scan of the
> music-related programs what work with Wine, and it doesn't look
> promising. That said, Ubuntu and the software at ubuntustudio.org are
> free, so there's absolutely no rise in trying them. Undoubtedly, your
> friend will have to invest some time in learning to used the programs.
> But I suspect he'd find much of what he needs there.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Pete
>
>
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