Is Rosgarde campareable to Garageband

[Vlaves]

Hallo together,

I hope I could get here some suggestions from you. In the past I used to use Garageband, but since my old Mac is broken :( I'm
now considering of installing Ubuntustudio 8.04 on my Asus P1-AH2.

Are the Applications installed with UbuntuStudio compareble with Garageband and is it possible to use my USB-Midi Keyboard? :confused:

If someone could tell me more about that stuff it would be great, thanks.

Regards
Vlaves

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I haven't used Ubuntu Studio myself but I'm pretty sure your midi keyboard should work fine. You can run Ubuntu off of the cd without having to install it to see if everything works and does what you want and I'm assuming this is the same for Ubuntu Studio. Just be warned, everything will be a lot lot slower running from CD.

[thorgal]

in principle, rosegarden should be similar but you may find it is not the same thing. I think there are other projects that may look more like garageband, for exemple LMMS. I don't know how good it works, I don't use it. I only use rosegarden from my drum sequencing together with a drum VSTi as the sampler. I know some ppl use it for full song compositions but I cannot speak for them. Try LMMS : http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
There are other projects as well : energyXT2 (http://www.energy-xt.com/ but you have to pay for a user licence although a free demo exists), Renoise (http://www.renoise.com), etc.

[prismatic7]

I haven't used Ubuntu Studio myself but I'm pretty sure your midi keyboard should work fine. You can run Ubuntu off of the cd without having to install it to see if everything works and does what you want and I'm assuming this is the same for Ubuntu Studio. Just be warned, everything will be a lot lot slower running from CD.

UbuntuStudio does not have a LiveCD distribution. It is the 'alternative' installer only, on a DVD.

in principle, rosegarden should be similar but you may find it is not the same thing. I think there are other projects that may look more like garageband, for exemple LMMS. I don't know how good it works, I don't use it. I only use rosegarden from my drum sequencing together with a drum VSTi as the sampler. I know some ppl use it for full song compositions but I cannot speak for them. Try LMMS : http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
There are other projects as well : energyXT2 (http://www.energy-xt.com/ but you have to pay for a user licence although a free demo exists), Renoise (http://www.renoise.com), etc.

The closest to Garageband in terms of interface and functionality is Jokosher (http://www.jokosher.org/), which is in the repos. I've played with it a bit, and it's got a lot of the simplicity and power of Garageband, although it lacks some of the niftier features.

Rosegarden is more akin to Cubase...

[Vlaves]

UbuntuStudio does not have a LiveCD distribution. It is the 'alternative' installer only, on a DVD.



The closest to Garageband in terms of interface and functionality is Jokosher (http://www.jokosher.org/), which is in the repos. I've played with it a bit, and it's got a lot of the simplicity and power of Garageband, although it lacks some of the niftier features.

Rosegarden is more akin to Cubase...

Did you test LMMS, is this maybe comparable to Garagebend, since
Jokosher doesn't suppport loops or is this feature now availible?

Thanks for any reply...

Regards
Vlaves