professional sound studio with freebsd, anyone?

[Jacob Meuser]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:47:59PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Monday, 3. January 2005 22:14, Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:50:44PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > On Monday, 3. January 2005 20:58, Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
> > > > P.S. Currently the studio i've been working in was based on
> > > > win/cubase/HALion ..  I'd like similar quality..
> > >
> > > Not there yet. On any platform.
> >
> > Ok, then the best one can have using open source.  I've heard
> > some work of just ecasound, running w/o X in the past and the
> > work was quite good.
> 
> Jacob's reply in this thread had a fairly comprehensive list. A substantial 
> part of that list isn't available on BSD though (and there's no MIDI support 
> in any recent FreeBSD release to boot), so Linux is indeed the platform of 
> choice for a strict open source approach to music production.

jack is in freebsd ports.  does it work?  if so, lots of the currently-
being-developed software, like ardour, should work on FreeBSD.

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