Viraj's Weblog

I haven't been practicing guitar as much as I'd like, but every now and then I spend a few hours attempting to play. Generally what I enjoy is trying to just guitar solo over some song played from my ipod.

This weekend I played with 2 open source tools: Hydrogen, a drum machine, and Ardour, a recording tool similar to Pro Tools. I'm using them on Mac and unfortunately some of the support is lacking. However I was able to record a tune. I created everything from scratch and I have to say I really love these free tools. I had the displeasure of using Pro Tools and just thought the whole thing was a racket intended to get people spending gobs of money on the software and training.