The first LINUX-based sequencer

Lionstracs released the Mediastation X-76, a next generation music workstation & performance keyboard based on Linux and AMD’s 32bit Athlon or 64 bit Opteron CPUs in 2004. This isn’t news but nevertheless it very interesting device:

The sound generation system is based on a combination between DSP and software synthesis: a total of 256 voices provided by DREAM DSP chips to provide GM/GS sounds. Besides hardware DSPs a an additive/subtractive softsynth is provided for synthetic sounds and a software sampler that can stream multi Gigabyte samples in GIG format directly from disk.
The architecture is completely open and most of the software empowering the Mediastation X-76 will be released under the GPL open source license which allows for royalty-free third party developer contribution and extension of audio libraries and applications. Customers get free automated software upgrades delivered by connecting the keyboard to the internet through a LAN cable.

The price of X-76 is about €2990.