Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts 184
Henry G. writes "Lionstracs of Italy has released the Mediastation X-76 music workstation. It runs Red Hat and KDE 3.1. The base model features a 1.67 Ghz Athlon, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, CDRW/DVD-ROM, 8.2" LCD, and a host of other things. Full specs can be found here and pictures can be found here. To this submitter, it looks more like a keyboardized computer than a computerized keyboard."
Looks just about right (Score:4, Insightful)
Man.... (Score:0, Insightful)
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Do Musicians care about Linux? (Score:5, Insightful)
With software synths (Reason, Reaktor, plus the various VST and DXi synths available) gaining in popularity, a laptop and a small USB keyboard are all many electronic musicians need to get going. Factor into this the low cost (since downloading of MP3s is killing small/new artists more than it harms anyone associated with the RIAA), and the fact that even electronic musicians are not highly technically savvy ("Yo, mate, I plugged my 'board into the Insert Jack on this Mackie, becuase I want to Insert the sound, right?"), musicians will tend to go with what everyone else is using because then support is easy to find. Unless some new device offers some unique and killer sound with a dirt simple or intuitive user interface, it's just another box destined to fade into obscurity.
Re:Do Musicians care about Linux? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Do Musicians care about Linux? (Score:1, Insightful)
Musos also care about drivers and unfortunately Linux doesn't deliver on this like Windows does.
Re:Do Musicians care about Linux? (Score:2, Insightful)