Browsing Freshmeat tonight, the premier online Linux software repository, I came across to these two great (and brand new) applications,
ReBorn and
ReZound. Reborn, a Rebirth clone that will soon become open source according to the developer, provides a software emulation of three of Roland's most famous electronic musical instruments. It got me thinking as to how much more viable Linux is today as a professional (or semi-professional) audio platform than it used to be two years ago.
Update: On a related multimedia notice,
WinAMP 3.0 for Windows was released yesterday.
According to their store, they do not sell the Linux version via it (can't find it anywhere). I found an updater for Linux, for an older version of Maya though, and that's all I could find for it. The new version, that also distributes freely as "personal learning edition" is only available for OSX and Windows. Not sure what is the deal with Linux and Maya these days. They do not seem to be proactive anymore about it.