Jimmy Sjölund

I have never created beats myself being an analog, stringbased music maker so no good advice in that department. Perhaps http://libremusicproduction.com/ have any articles covering sequencing?

Way back I had issues with my laptop and Debian so AV Linux was not a choice for me then, while Ubuntu worked fine. Today it would be a viable option, but nowadays I configure my own "studio" environment in Debian modeling just the things I want instead of using a prepared studio distro or repos. Mac has always been a preferred option for musicians, but also an expensive option that was never available for me. Now the price comparison between mac and pc are getting closer to each other but for my own part I'm too involved in open source to tie into a closed system again. I could run Ardour and other applications in on a Mac but I experience more freedom to tweak my system on a Linux machine. Also there's the whole philosophy behind using open source which is a big part of who I am these days.