<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Many thanks for your replies.</span></div><div><span>Sorry for being impatient!<br></span></div><div><span>I wouldn't call myself a linux expert, i am more into music production. I'm not sure how much time i have to dedicate to learning about linux but there is obviously something inside me which wants to learn.<br></span></div><div><span>I have had a lot of success with ardour 2.8.6. i think it's fantastic and highly useable!<br></span></div><div>Best,</div><div>Nick<br><span></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Paul
Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Nick Ramm <seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Tim Westbrook <iondiode@yahoo.com>; "ardour-users@lists.ardour.org" <ardour-users@lists.ardour.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 30 September 2011, 13:00<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ardour-Users] Fw: can't get midi to work<br></font><br>On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Nick Ramm <<a ymailto="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk" href="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk">seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> Ok, so what's the drill for a linux dumbo who wants to do use ardour 3 +<br>> midi, like me?<br><br>ardour3 hasn't been released yet. unless you're planning on being an<br>active part of our beta testing group, i'd just leave it for now while<br>you think about the
distribution question.<br><br>i try not to make distro recommendations, other than "not ubuntu if<br>you want to do pro-audio or music creation stuff". plenty of other<br>people have their preferences for ... Arch, AVLinux, Gentoo, Fedora<br>etc. etc. the point is not whether any of them *can* be used - all<br>Linux distros can. the question is how much work will you have to do<br>to get it usable.<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>