Producing digital music with RISC OS is still possible, says artist Antius, who this month told drobe.co.uk that he’s finished recording his latest album, in which RISC OS played a considerable part. Conceived under the hEgelian diAlectics project, the album is due to be mastered at Eevolute, although no specific release date can be given.
Digital music creation with RISC OS
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I wonder how well RiscOS performs latency wise, this is great on Windows with ASIO drivers and OSX with Core audio.
BTW, that must be one of the most ugly desktop environments I have ever seen!
Some RISC OS users do pick some “interesting” icon sets – the screenshot on Drobe isn’t the standard GUI.
There are plenty of good or bad (depending on your taste) screenshots here:
http://www.iconbar.com/desktop/screenshots.html
Personally I don’t think you can beat the standard RISC OS 5 design – neat, consistent, and a careful use of colour. Check out the screenshot here:
http://www.iconbar.com/newsarchive/324/
Latency probably isn’t much of an issue if he’s not using realtime instruments/effects.
Also, from the article-
“Antius mentioned that he will be using an Apple Mac at some point in the future, so is it curtains for his RiscPC”
I think once he is accustomed to the integrated nature of a host/plugin type environment, then yes.
This is the only forum on OS news without a flame war. It is nice that the Risc OS community is refraning from calling every one else a bunch of retards (yes that was an actual post from today).
The Arm Cpu’s arent the most powerful out there, but with a clean efficient interface and well coded programs, I wouldnt think you would miss the extra power.
I agree, the community does seem to have it’s head screwed on, only have to look at the way the major dispute over rights was sorted.
I used these heavily at school and still miss them dearly, I still remember doing DTP with photos in 2MB easily and wish……