professional sound studio with freebsd, anyone?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:47:59 +0100
Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net> 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.

You may want to look a bit at this list. From I remember some one
posting some patches to add midi back in, for some chipsets, awhile
back.