How I set up a small music studio
I set up a tiny music studio for composing and playing music for my own entertainment. You can too:
Any instrument that speaks midi or that can be recorded via a microphone can be plugged into a Laptop running Ubuntu Linux (free) and some software (also free). There are also flavours of Ubuntu which install all the music software you will need automatically and house it all in an easy to use gui. At any rate, I generally use Rosegarden for recording and editing midi tracks, Audacity or Ardour2 for recording, editing, and sequencing acoustic tracks, and Hydrogen for complex drum tracks. Multitracking with 30 or so tracks this way is easy. I then combine everything together in Rosegarden, and export an mp3 file. Finally, I use Lilypond to automatically notate my musical score. With a bit of manual editing of the score, I am done.
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The software I use is all free of charge. Just use apt-get to download and install from the Ubuntu databases:
A big THANKS! to the open-source community for providing such amazing software.
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