[SOLVED] Sound inspired distro?

ejspeiro · 11-29-2011, 02:07 AM

Hi guys!

I have a friend who basically posted a thought regarding the difficulties of executing some composition software on Linux and he thought on writing a Linux Distro specifically tuned for sound-related composition.

His issue was specifically related to Wine's random flaws in executing certain pieces of musical composition software, such as Sibelius!

Any thoughts or comments?

I ran into: http://linux-sound.org/distro.html

But what about any other hints?!?

Thanks in advanced folks!

cascade9 · 11-29-2011, 02:21 AM

Running Sib under linux/WINE, or other windows software, its not suprising that there are problems.

Better to use linux native software.

There is linux native score software, see here-

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20...cNotation.html

menno8472 · 12-25-2011, 05:29 AM

You might want to try musix (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/), which is a knoppix-based audio-oriented (?) distro, endorsed by GNU. I've never used it, but its supposed to be good. It should have some packages for composition software.
Audacity is pretty good for multi-track audio editing and it's native to linux, but you can only edit the actual sound waves.
hope this helps

JimBrewster · 12-27-2011, 08:16 AM

Do a full install of Slackware-13.37, then surf over to slackermedia.info and learn how to build a custom media system.

ejspeiro · 02-12-2012, 03:23 AM

Hey guys, sorry the long time on replying to this!

I showed the thread to my friend and he really found the suggestions interesting, and off course, so did I!

I will label it as solved!