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(DIR) Post #B4xbCtaRH7pA6oc772 by mntmn@mastodon.social
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do you make music on Linux, and what's your favorite software to work with? and what do you miss the most from Linux music/audio software that exists on other platforms?
(DIR) Post #B4xbQykuqzvUC7EJ96 by cinap_lenrek@hj.9fs.net
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yes, having lots of fun with lmms 1.2.2
(DIR) Post #B4xcja5at4b39IKsdM by mntmn@mastodon.social
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@cinap_lenrek fun fact, i first included BSD and plan9 in my post but then edited it out again to focus :D
(DIR) Post #B4xct6rsNzmlPtSlns by mntmn@mastodon.social
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@aud @aeva unfortunately no arm64 support in linux bitwig
(DIR) Post #B4xcvxNW7nfgqzcWYa by eighty@metalhead.club
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@mntmn Yes, Ardour, third party support.Relying on yabridge and some special wine versions isn't fun for professional work.
(DIR) Post #B4xcyzhXwbOovYRAsS by cinap_lenrek@hj.9fs.net
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dont worry. the tools dont really matter. 9front has a very active music scene š
(DIR) Post #B4xczUTRX5XOMn4qhM by thomasjwebb@mastodon.social
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@mntmn @aud @aeva this has bothered me for awhile and I was hoping that somehow Apple's move to their arm would somehow make it easier for them to make a Linux/arm64 build of Bitwig.
(DIR) Post #B4xd1l7Kckd8Z2ogJE by ruben@friendship.quest
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@mntmn@mastodon.social Bookmarking this because Iām very interested in the responses!Iāve tried and failed so far, but i want to keep trying. (So far tried reaper and ardour). What Iām missing:ā Audio device predictability: something about my setup means opening these daws will sometimes kill my wireplumber session in a way I donāt know how to recover without a reboot, and not repeatable enough that I know āwhat not to doāThe rest is around specific plugins, which I hope the responses provide some good recommendations.
(DIR) Post #B4xdXV0e32dHsCp876 by mntmn@mastodon.social
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@cinap_lenrek hehe yeah the tools matter a little bit to me :D if i constantly have to fight the thing, i'm not making music
(DIR) Post #B4xdxDfX8sSzccDI9I by nash@labyrinth.social
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@mntmn I do & my favorite music software is Renoise, although I also use some software I made myself (Pebble Music Engine).Switching to Renoise on Linux from Renoise on Windows, I did lose access to a bunch of free plugins I had collected, but I haven't really missed them all too much tbh
(DIR) Post #B4xeMMhYhDPusM9QFU by agafnd@www.librepunk.club
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@mntmn there's a lot under the domain of "making music" ā & different tools for different things. off the top of my head i use musescore for writing out scores, audacity/tenacity for making rough edits to audio & transcribing things, reaper (ardour in the past as well) for more serious recording work, renoise for midi-controlled synth sounds & programming.biggest problem you can run into i think is plugins. there are a lot of linux native plugins, some of them very good, but most commercial VSTs are mac or windows only. you can sometimes get windows VSTs working through wine (yabridge) but it's a pain and may not work.i don't use a computer much in my professional music work so it's all good enough for me.
(DIR) Post #B4xeczfPajImMG4lXc by Undercat@mastodon.sdf.org
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@mntmn I tried with Reaper but found I missed FL Studio too much. I wish ImageLine would make a Linux version.
(DIR) Post #B4xeoK1gEkEMgbtSiG by fabio@cosocial.ca
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@mntmn I used Bitwig on Linux a few times. Itās not open-source and a lot of people take issue with that, but itās a fine piece of software
(DIR) Post #B4xfEN3zZCgVdSOc2C by lykso@tiny.tilde.website
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@mntmn I've gotten comfortable with Ardour.
(DIR) Post #B4xfuWkBxs2Vp1Ei5Q by Lynx@ohai.social
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@mntmn I have been trying to make music on Linux for around 20 years now. I've worked with Ardour, LMMS, Reaper, Non, and various trackers. So far my favorite (and most productive, despite me having only released 3 songs so far) is SunVox, which is free but closed source. I really wish Neil would compile on modern systems; I may hack at it at some point.
(DIR) Post #B4xgjx5LmvDaHpecfg by uint8_t@chaos.social
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@mntmn bespokesynth is good fun for jams
(DIR) Post #B4xhPZLASerSo0tgWG by CeptKabane@piaille.fr
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@mntmn I did very little music on linux, and I us Reaper with vst. Reaper is really really really great for audio montages.
(DIR) Post #B4xhXoPmIbAzsHz59M by fstateaudio@mastodon.sdf.org
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@mntmn I've been a happy Reaper user for many years, so very cool that I can still use it on Linux. Surge XT has become my go-to "super synth," and I'm using Cardinal for a lot of what I used to use Biome for (modular fx processing). The main things I miss are Sound Forge and Reaktor.
(DIR) Post #B4xi4XM2kWmkWGqFWa by Jmvars@mastodon.social
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@mntmn i used to use FL Studio on Windows but I have yet to find a good alternative on Linux. It does not really matter though since I never made music seriously, just messing around as a hobby.
(DIR) Post #B4xj9uHX2A4p1rr7uC by murdock@mastodon.sdf.org
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@mntmn orca (using pilot as the sound engine) and milkysynth are the two tools I've been using.
(DIR) Post #B4xjZgxHCkyLE5g1pY by tom@social.huginn.uk
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@mntmn I use Ardour, Guitarix, and Hydrogen, all tied together with Jack. I've not used other OSs for music production, so can't really comment on what's missing.
(DIR) Post #B4xk1eI6heLx4XkdOq by the_art_of_giving_up@mastodon.social
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@mntmn mixxx is fun! No experience with other dj software
(DIR) Post #B4xlkMjUvlNHbNRvcm by SpotlightKyd@musicworld.social
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@mntmn I use Ardour, still running JACK as the audio system, and a bunch of FLOSS plugins and hardware synths and acoustic instruments and I don't really miss anything, except maybe sometimes a good pitch correction plugin.
(DIR) Post #B4xmWhRNF8drj31Gxk by computersandblues@post.lurk.org
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@mntmn https://plugdata.org/ is very fun, and https://tidalcycles.org/ or https://nudel.cc are, too.
(DIR) Post #B4xniNKDxP9Glgo412 by bonkers@nerdculture.de
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@mntmn too busy doing work on Linux... and I suck at music :))
(DIR) Post #B4xnqvRez40suEMUBk by vimja@tooting.ch
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@mntmn sort of kind of trying to...I use Orca + LMMS
(DIR) Post #B4xo1PTECnUCvK5usK by shaadra@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@mntmn Yep!I've enjoyed LMMS the most.I miss the ease of using Logic on macosx from 10+ years ago
(DIR) Post #B4xotamAO7UhclmyEy by rayotron@mstdn.social
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@mntmn I've tried almost all of the software mentioned here and finally gave up and went with 15 year old Macs. The software for them is free now. Logic Pro 9 still has more features than any Linux DAW, IMHO. The latest version of Reaper runs well on my 2009 Mac mini! I have well over 100 free VST and AU plugins.I'm going to try Linux again using Reaper with the Carla host for VSTs, AUs, etc. If it works well I'll start using Linux for music again.
(DIR) Post #B4xub84SyN1D6tvaNs by aud@fire.asta.lgbt
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@mntmn@mastodon.social I feel like tagging @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place here (in case you don't follow each other?) since I know she works on both OSes... and writes her own stuff, too.I haven't done anything more serious than just having 'play sessions', rather than "let's make a song!" sessions so my insight probably isn't as valuable as others, but I like Ardour as much as I think I can get comfortable with any DAW and I enjoy using Helm and https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/ for various software synth stuff (they have a plugin you can).I enjoyed playing around with the Bitwig Studio demo but I don't know how good it is for stuff. But the synth options were pretty awesome and easy to use for someone who isn't overly familiar with a lot of the standard types of levers to manipulate, so to speak
(DIR) Post #B4xub8P1jvSu8fY0Qq by aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@aud @mntmn my favorite Linux music software is #mollytime, but I'm biased because I wrote it.Rosegarden handles realtime playback completely wrong, but it is ok as a MIDI editor. I've been using Tenacity for simple edits of recordings and to converting WAVs to other formats.I don't really use Windows for music (beyond keeping the windows version of mollytime more or less at parity), and I've never used Macos for music.
(DIR) Post #B4xub8eGpFestwgBBw by aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@aud @mntmn fwiw I actively dislike most music software in general, which I guess is the sort of thing that usually motivates people to write weird music software instead
(DIR) Post #B4xub8rk1AQxZiywBk by aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@aud @mntmn to save you time, mollytime also does not support arm64 at the moment (for lack of a suitable device to test it on)
(DIR) Post #B4xub97L5AuWM6HOV6 by aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@aud @mntmn I don't see any reason on paper that would prevent mollytime from running nice on a MNT Reform or Pocket. My current minspec is a desktop I built in 2012.
(DIR) Post #B4xub9K6Jj7QzgFaOO by aud@fire.asta.lgbt
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place @mntmn@mastodon.social would a test build on a pi-like device be a good test for getting support running? I wouldn't mind trying that out myself, honestly, if it would lead towards MNT Reform/Pocket support.
(DIR) Post #B4xub9Tfk8m7TMjEJM by aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@aud @mntmn the RPI-400 i have on hand only has 4 GB, which makes the device very infuriating to use for normal tasks like "opening websites in firefox", so I haven't tried to use it for much of anything else. I tried to use it to tide me over when my laptop broke a while back, and it was so bad I ended up buying a steamdeck instead. In theory 4 GB should be significantly more than enough to actually run mollytime. I don't remember what the clock speed is on the device.
(DIR) Post #B4xub9fj1KPs4kMr68 by aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@aud @mntmn supporting arm64 (and riscv) is something I want to do eventually as libre software running on libre hardware is a niche that is near and dear to my heart
(DIR) Post #B4xub9tCDFBwkWfc5w by mntmn@mastodon.social
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@aeva @aud mollytime looks cool, i hadn't come across it yet! can try to build/run it on our hw soon
(DIR) Post #B4xufXMItaUyhHNBaa by mntmn@mastodon.social
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@fabio yeah, i had a license once, a long time ago, but unfortunately they didn't make an arm64 linux version
(DIR) Post #B4xvMPpGmJ0PmpMqlE by mntmn@mastodon.social
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@shaadra me too @ logic!
(DIR) Post #B4xvZ0lNGwwjouYGcS by aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@mntmn @aud This is where the source currently lives https://github.com/Aeva/mollytime "excelsior" is the main branch. README.md walks through the basic installation instructions, BUILD.md documents everything necessary to build it and what all the mollybuild.py wraps (as well as what dependencies you may need to install yourself), and BUILD-linux.md contains some additional notes. iirc most of the dependencies are automatically cloned from upstream repositories by mollybuild.py
(DIR) Post #B4xvpya4dgzFyVM63k by milagemayvary@mstdn.social
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@mntmn I do not make music, I do toy around audacity to produce clips & the such.But I I know someone who does.Calling @amadeus He runs the website:https://linuxaudio.dev/
(DIR) Post #B4xzarA6L8c2RFFjiC by screwlisp@gamerplus.org
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@mntmn I use libsndfile-dev for personally touching sound and ffmpeg cli for muxing.#bonkwave -rs?
(DIR) Post #B4y0RCf9e4ZgBFjr8K by threadpanic@mastodon.social
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@mntmn Just simple things like effects and cropping in Audacity.
(DIR) Post #B4y1JjIMXEH31e4tVY by jn@boopsnoot.de
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@mntmn BespokeSynth, for a modular softwade synthesizer
(DIR) Post #B4y2uQOzqENp6BF5sW by chiraag@mastodon.online
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@mntmn @ardour
(DIR) Post #B4y7AcKle9i4YRF0Ou by tlhunter@mastodon.social
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@mntmn I do a lot of FL Studio v12 via Wine but for goofing around I enjoy SunVox (which has a bunch of ports).
(DIR) Post #B4yCMVyraqso60UK7k by tgm@fosstodon.org
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@mntmn i use fl studio 2025 thru wine (soda v9), and the thing i miss the most is being able to crack plugins like serum 2 or phaseplant. wine wont run keygens at all... im hoping this changes sometime soon as im sick of using windows for more intricate electronic stuff :,)(i pay for small devs' work! just cant drop hundreds in USD on big company product licenses. unemployed moment)
(DIR) Post #B4yDurJyr7pK5BJ1nc by FeloniousPunk@beige.party
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@mntmn @somcak Longtime Logic user here, recently switched to linux. Iām using Reaper at the moment but sure do miss my Waves plug-in collection. I also canāt use my Universal Audio interfaces which is a bummer. Iām going to sell them to get RME I suppose.I had intended to keep using a Mac for music but, my MBP died and forced my hand. Iāll be DAMNED if I give the boot lickers another dime.
(DIR) Post #B4yG72GiBCtXPzi8O0 by amadeus@mstdn.social
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@mntmn I produce music on Arch Linux using Bitwig Studio and native audio plugins. You can find a full list of the gear I use on my website: https://amadeuspaulussen.com/info/gear.There are still a few tools I miss on Linuxālike audio interface software, speaker measurement software and an audio editor similar to Acoustica (though a native Linux version of that is in the making).Aside from that, I feel incredibly well-equipped with the Linux based DAW setup I have already.
(DIR) Post #B4yUYlubz7ji9kUfGi by decibyte@social.data.coop
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@mntmn @fabio I recently asked for it and the idea wasn't completely rejected. Maybe if enough people ask for it?
(DIR) Post #B4yXOYc0sXr1sEcCwK by chiraag@mastodon.online
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@ruben @mntmn Use ALSA unless you need muxing at the stream level, honestly.
(DIR) Post #B4yXOYpq38ugZ75FUO by ruben@friendship.quest
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@chiraag@mastodon.online @ruben@mastodon.online I havenāt been able to get any sound out of ALSA in my current setup
(DIR) Post #B4ynPNVzDowB0qD41Q by chiraag@mastodon.online
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@ruben@friendship.quest @ruben Oh weird. Are you using an external mixer/sound card?
(DIR) Post #B4ynPNgcaHRbXpBYbA by ruben@friendship.quest
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@chiraag@mastodon.online Sometimes. But Iāll figure it out at some point. Rather than going down the debugging route, the reason I mentioned it is that when Iām in a āmake musicā mood iām not in a ādebug Linux audioā mood, and it just makes me not go to my Linux machine for making music.I can only imagine this is worse for non technical users.
(DIR) Post #B4yrWqC7OFIjnvjLYe by basxto@chaos.social
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@mntmn Never produced anything productive with it but:DAWs:* [lmms](https://lmms.io/)* [zrythm](zrythm.org)To some extend also pure JACK madness with [Cadence](https://kx.studio/Applications:Cadence).Favorite synthesizers:* [ZynAddSubFx](https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/)* Vital(ium)* [Cardinal](https://cardinal.kx.studio/) (maybe also standalone; more a synth suite)Plugins:* [Calf](https://calf-studio-gear.org/)* Bitrot
(DIR) Post #B4zAaDACLXf92V9Y1I by mitscherdinger@mastodon.social
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@mntmn #ardour and #linuxshowplayer are my favorite and most used audio tools
(DIR) Post #B4zEuUHOonSbjTRez2 by joxean@mastodon.social
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@mntmn Favourite native softwares: Musescore & Reaper. What I really-really miss: native support for professional software instruments and toolkits like Komplete kontakt or Viena Ensemble Pro or iZotope, etc...
(DIR) Post #B4zExfgMsbUFxxdski by awai@fosstodon.org
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@mntmn I don't think I could pick "one" favourite software, as many are involved in my workflow: @ardour is the cornerstone, but I also use LSP plugins, Neural Amp Modeler and TuxGuitar a lot šøI do miss the ability to use fancy modern gear that require PC software, as vendors rarely offer š§ versions. This limits my options, but OTOH I spend more time playing rather than endlessly tweaking presets šhttps://neuralampmodeler.comhttps://lsp-plug.inhttps://tuxguitar.apphttps://dimehead.de
(DIR) Post #B4zFzANMLcZvP61nDU by obbardc@fosstodon.org
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@mntmn xwax vinyl control (like serato/traktor), it's pretty neat.
(DIR) Post #B4zWWthQSGfKnNWIC0 by infosec812@foojay.social
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@mntmnI use #LMMS, and as far as missing things I actually don't miss anything really. It's a little more difficult to get JACK Audio set up, but that's getting easier with Pipewire
(DIR) Post #B51hxaKY41nyM1fQjg by ewolff@mastodon.social
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@mntmn Cardinal emulates a modular, analog synth https://cardinal.kx.studio/ - precompiled for ARM64, runs on my Pocket Reform
(DIR) Post #B51mTrXU1AGEoEMcvg by abydorf@mastodon.social
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@mntmn My experience with the audio software eco system was more than a decade ago. But there was a phase shortly after 2010 where I tinkered a lot with music on Linux for quite some time. Probably tried everything available at that time in one way or the other. Worked the most with Renoise. It integrated well with JACK for my needs back then. Stopped around the time when Bitwig was announced or even published in early versions. Always wanted to try, eventually never had the opportunity to.
(DIR) Post #B51udU197mQCO5KxMG by mntmn@mastodon.social
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@ewolff ahh thanks for mentioning, need to try that out again!
(DIR) Post #B53hkFO50UtXx5sYMa by infosec812@foojay.social
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@mntmn Did you see the recent video from Venus Theory? https://youtu.be/UaY23TSa4-0?si=PxEsttOhBjkeZVAy
(DIR) Post #B574hsQoGaZub1sH20 by dried@sonomu.club
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@mntmn yes! I mostly use supercollider and ardour, in the past also pure data, musescore, faust, etc. I wish there was better support for configuration software for hardware (audio interfaces, controllers, synths).
(DIR) Post #B5AGeKcBJyNzlt9J2m by wrl@mastodon.social
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@mntmn used renoise for like 10 years, bitwig for about 5 now, i'm a decently accomplished musician but not pro. lot of closed source plugins, unfortunately pretty important these days. this is all on x64 ā haven't started the process of moving to arm or riscv, that's probably 5-10 years off for me.
(DIR) Post #B5AetNydV6cXRVMaQ4 by toffo@mastodon.social
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@mntmn renoise for sure! using it since 2015-2016 (when not doing stuff with amiga+hw synths) along with pd / midinous / bespoke / etc. i may be biased here but i love it so much..
(DIR) Post #B5DPIglZlPpJAEB59s by Teratogenese@mamot.fr
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@mntmn Fav software is Reaper. Works very well on Manjaro and also on Debian distros !Nevertheless, I dearly miss synth1 :https://daichilab.sakura.ne.jp/softsynth/index.htmlNo vst/CLAP synth (even paid) on Linux compares to this gem in terms of ressources efficiency, sound quality, ergonomy.Sadly couldn't make it work with wine/yeabridge on Manjaro Linux.So if anyone made a port to Linux, it would open thousand possibilities :)#daw #vstsynth #linux
(DIR) Post #B5OFfe0xIdsAUEEong by cwebber@social.coop
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@mntmn I do all my music in Milkytracker, but I am also not a very good musicianhttps://dustycloud.org/blog/ode-to-cleaning-robots-a-song/https://dustycloud.org/blog/two-songs-in-milkytracker/Milkytracker is a delight on the Pocket tho
(DIR) Post #B5OGU8mLC1ZGNaTrDE by xan@xantronix.social
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@mntmn these might be a little out of leftfield buthttp://hydrogen-music.org/https://filter24.org/seq24/oh and ofc Sunvoxidk i have a soft spot in my heart for weird old stuff
(DIR) Post #B5OJaimWY0FldmObBY by th@v.st
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@mntmn MUSICOMP had good SCATRE and FORTRAN plugin support on the ILLIAC.
(DIR) Post #B5OWhSMxGWemAZyhDU by occult@vox.ominous.net
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@th @mntmn just going to throw in this one I found at the MIT flea market with music created using an AD8 connected to an IMSAI 8080 in 1977.
(DIR) Post #B5OXzl0mnAMH9etnQ8 by paul@post.lurk.org
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@mntmn I used to have fun playing with various music trackers on Linux. Renoise, Milkytracker, Schismtracker. JACK is a really cool and unique idea, and when it was around, non DAW fully embraced JACK and the unix philosophy applied to sound. I've used a fair amount of computer music tools like Csound, PD, Faust, ChucK, etc. And I've built many of my own tools, as one does.I really miss polished tape-based multi-track workflows like those seen in Reaper and ProTools. You can move really smoothly in those. It feels an awful lot like working in a text editor like vim/emacs. I know there's Ardour, and I respect the project, but it always feels rough around the edges when I try to use it.
(DIR) Post #B5OZyuFf9VqFQlZz72 by rev_null@infosec.exchange
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@mntmn I've been using Linux for music creation for 20 years, so I don't know that there's much that I miss from back when I used windows. I'm pretty heavily invested in the JACK ecosystem. I tend to use ardour, fluidsynth, sox, and a collection of homegrown tools.
(DIR) Post #B5OhvXs0i1dGmRQNoe by asciijungle@norden.social
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@mntmn tidalcycles! Runs nicely on my generation 1 mnt reform š„°
(DIR) Post #B5PaW0CCGeeua2hQoq by rafaelmartins@mastodon.social
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@mntmn I'm not currently running Linux desktop, but the stack is pretty much the same since then: https://rafaelmartins.com/uses/#audiovideo-1
(DIR) Post #B5QSxQfZLGI61xxuOO by xan@xantronix.social
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@cinap_lenrek are you friends with a certain dog girl called Phoebe perhaps
(DIR) Post #B5QSxQsKZoV0fXw6Hg by cinap_lenrek@hj.9fs.net
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no.