[Herefordshire] Music software & best distro for it? - request for comments

[Ralph Jones]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 11:21, Matt Rhys-Roberts wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> Does anybody here do any music production (i.e. much WAV and MIDI
> editing operations) under Linux? Which distro do you use, which one/s
> are known to work best or worst, etc?
> 
> I'm on the verge of getting my 1.3GHz Asus Terminator pc going again
> (it woke up yesterday with a stone dead Seagate Barracuda HDD that had
> hardly seen any working life at all - just my bad luck??)
> 
> I wish to stay clear of M$'s depressing stranglehold on software, so
> I'm going throwing all my eggs into a Linux box this time.
> 
> I've heard of "Dyne:bolic" as a recommended audio production suite,
> however I'm open to all suggestions and info on this field.
> 
> Thanks! Have a pleasant weekend
> 
> Matt Rhys-Roberts
> Leominster
> 
> 
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Lo Matt, lo all, 

I don't know whether this is what you're looking for, but have you tried
'sox' yet ? I believe it comes as standard with all GNU/Linux distros.
Try 'man sox'/'info sox' for details.

Regards
Ralph