My son uses a music program called Reason on his windows computer. Unfortunately, it crashed and I cannot get the sound to work again (using Windows 2000, common problem). He said he'd go for Linux but he really wants to use Reason. Does anyone know of a Linux equivalent?

Please be aware that we are unliekly to have the slightest clue about this Reason program... why should we know what it does? I went and found the website and it looks like some sort of multichannel music sequencer, so maybe rosegarden is suitable..

Thanks for the reply - of course I know many will not be familiar with this software. I did not mean to send anyone off on a research project. I just thought I could tap in to the vast resources afforded by this forum and hopefully find someone knowledgeable to help me.

I wouldn't say Rosegarden is a linux-alternative for Propellerheads' Reason, but more like Steinberg's Cubase (SX3)

Cubase is an audio studio (including a MIDI sequencer) while Reason is emulating a 19" rack full of different audio hardware.

Maybe Zynaddsubfx would suffice...

http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/

Stupid religious remarks on the site but great name though...

Thanks very much!!

Note: I happened upon a distro based on Kanotix called Musix which is aimed at musicians. Just installed on my son's PC last week... so far, so good.

isn't that bible bashing against the GPL? I used to have a poster of that quote on my bedroom wall at university. When my future wife came back to mine for the first time she thought she'd found a nutter, not a cliched student with too much irony in him!

Cool about your poster but I fail to see how a well educated modern human being plus a programmer, undoubtadly smart, well at least more than average person have in common with church, bible or religion. One denies the other.
This is 21-st century after all.
Nice to believe in something, but please.....forbiding people to use it's software if it is used to produce material against some undefined thing or a dead person, 2000 years dead person, this is most anti GPL I have ever seen, and anti common sence.......Is this taliban programmer or what?
Fsckin religious fanatics...

edit> I have read your post again acid_kewpie and just realised I have missed your point, sory about that.