





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."
Can I run Logic on it ? (Score:4, Interesting)
Website design: -1, Non-Intuitive (Score:3, Interesting)
The focal point is a picture of a keyboard, with these "helpful" navaids:
Wow, that's clear. I always think "Demo" when I look at the bottom left corner of a keyboard at Best Buy.
It's a computerized keyboard, which implies a computer-human interface. Let's hope that the design team responsible for the web site wasn't allowed anywhere near the actual prodcuct. "Click on the penguin's right toe for MIDI Configuration!"
Re:Can I run Logic on it ? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Do Musicians care about Linux? (Score:4, Interesting)
Sorry man, you are amazingly disconnected with the computer music scene. Although many of are enjoying macosx now, most of us know and like unix.
Perhaps its while we are using pure-data [pure-data.org], or STK [stanford.edu] or maybe CLAM [iua.upf.es] or by chance audacity [sourceforge.net]
Linking is getting old, but being surronded by computer music, I promise you WE USE LINUX.
Kind Regards,
Rob
Answer: Some.. (Score:4, Interesting)
The future for Linux holds many things. Hackers composing music? You bet.
Movie industry key in bringing linux audio to life (Score:2, Interesting)
1. Drivers for at least one professional audio card need to be written for linux. I would expect to see multi-channel recording, midi, and ASIO 2.0 drivers at the very least.
2. Applications like Cubase, WaveLab, Sonar, and Reaktor need to become available for linux.
We've still got quite a long way to go before this becomes a reality, but if hollywood keeps using Linux for movies then eventually they might start demanding it for their scorers. The movie industry is key in making professional Linux audio a reality.
Re:A piano keyboard for input? (Score:4, Interesting)