Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
> Hello..
> 
> I would like to know if anyone here has set up a
> professional-quality music studio based on open&free software.
> Please let me know what you have used, software, OS and
> hardware..
> 
> I'm an openbsd user, ive used freebsd quite a lot in the past
> but i have no more than a month's experience with linux.
> (And minimal with netbsd, though i'd feel much more 'at home'
> than with the linux solution)
> I'm thinking of freebsd, netbsd or gentoo linux as an OS.
> I saw some ports (like rosegarden) lagging behind in both freebsd
> and netbsd.
> 
> Please share your experience with me.
> 
> P.S. Currently the studio i've been working in was based on
> win/cubase/HALion ..  I'd like similar quality..
> 

On the sequencing front, Rosegarden and MuSE are the only real
candidates. Unfortunately they both rely on ALSA, the poorly documented
system that is now the preferred audio and MIDI architecture under
Linux. Unless someone comes up with an ALSA emulation layer I can't see
these two applications being ported to a BSD. I don't think LADSPA, the
popular Linux plugin architecture works on BSD based systems either.

Chris