A Recording Junkie Goes to College

The last album I made was in 2013 on a MacBook using Logic Pro and Massive, a setup that cost a couple thousand dollars. Since I no longer have that machine and the software was proprietary, I no longer have access to all of that work. This has sparked a great interest in searching for a replacement digital audio suite, one that would provide a comparable workflow but also offer longevity, the ability to archive my work in a format that can be shared across platforms and improved upon. An artist should demand nothing less! What if a painter had to stop working on everything because they didn't want to use canvas from a certain company, and then none of their brushes or paints would work? That's what is actually happening in today's creative landscape, but with software. Whatever program I use must, above all else, use a standard file format for music encoding, which is usually MIDI but there are others. That way none of my work is dependent on any specific piece of ...

sudo apt-get install python3-pip sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl sudo apt-get install dosbox sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-jdk sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility sudo apt-get install leafpad sudo apt-get install libreoffice Emacs - do whole video on this. Leiningen - save lein script to /bin/lein, then: sudo chmod a+x /bin/lein lein sudo apt install emacs24 git clone https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d .spacemacs config: (setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '((clojure :variables clojure-enable-fancify-symbols t))) vim/fireplace (do whole video on this): sudo apt-get install vim git clone https://github.com/ctford/vim-fireplace-easy.git .vim ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc.vim ~/.vimrc vim -c "helptags ~/.vim/bundle/vim-fireplace/doc" -c "q"

Get retropie-4.3-rpi2_rpi3.img from  https://retropie.org.uk/download/ Flash it to your sdcard, boot and press F4 to exit to shell. Install graphical desktop: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg sudo apt-get install xinit sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods sudo apt-get install -y rpi-chromium-mods sudo apt-get install -y python-sense-emu sudo apt-get install -y python-sense-emu-doc sudo apt-get install -y realvnc-vnc-viewer sudo apt-get install lxde Your best friend: sudo raspi-config There you can do all kinds of stuff, I recommend changing your password and enabling ssh in the interface options. Set your appropriate locale (mine is en_US.UTF-8), keyboard layout - English (US, alternative international), and wifi country. Use the spacebar to select/deselect. Type startx to load lxde.