The linux DAW thread

[kx.001]

Are there any good drum machine plugins for linux? Rather than sample players, I mean.

[stanlea]

http://www.anticore.org/jucetice/?page_id=7

drumsynth is a good hem drum synth

[kx.001]

ahem yes, I have seen that one before, but couldn't get it working, I seem to remember. I'm going to reinstall stuff on my netbook cause it's stopped agreeing with the home network so I'll have another go!

[glokraw]

Hydrogen is great and easy for creating simple or complex percussion,
mousclicks place beats in grid, patterns placed in grid etc.

Using it's ladspa fx interface per drum, can get as crazy
or as esoteric, as your imagination allows

Drumcore, Kitcore, and Addictive drums should work in wine.
Probably Battery too, but I haven't tested it.

There is a free Drumcore, that sounds great for bread&butter
beats augmented with hydrogen creations.

http://www.sonomawireworks.com/drumcore/downloads/

(new hydrogen kits are not difficult, load a kit, replace it's
samples one by one, save it with a new name. Lots of great
free/inexpensive samples out there. I use timemachine to record
individual beats from midi keyboard, chop up the 24 bit beats file
using audacity, and save them to a folder, for selection
in a new hydro kit. You can add thump or tingle etc while you're
at it, using the ladxpa fx, bassboost, chorus, echos yada yada
in audacity.)

Cheers

[kx.001]

I was thinking more 808 / 909 type drum synths rather than sample players. Its just for something portable when out and about, to go in renoise.

[glokraw]

There are several Roland kits in Hydrogen collection,
808, 809, 606, 626 etc
I'll guess most windows drumsynths that are just .dll files,
will work in wine, but I don't know how renoise deals with
qjackctl connections from reaper, festige, fst, dssi-vst.
Cheers

[logicgate]

Are there any good drum machine plugins for linux? Rather than sample players, I mean.

There's one called "smack" (http://smack.berlios.de/) but it needs to be compiled. I'm going to try building it at some point.

[SE_Newbie]

http://au.fairlight.com.au/product/quantum/technical/

More of a high-end linux-vst solution:

"Built-in embedded Linux PC"

Nice barrel of winE under the hood

Yep. That means that they don't need to purchase special licenses in order to build their machines.

Of course, their source code should also be available to all..


brian

Brian, you are partially correct. The source code for the Linux and all open-source applications it uses must be made available, but the maker may also write and include proprietary software as well (a proprietary vst host for example). The presence of Linux doesn't guarantee that everything is open-source..... Google's Android OS (which is actually a Java VM running on Linux) is one example of this

[logicgate]

Are there any good drum machine plugins for linux? Rather than sample players, I mean.

There's one called "smack" (http://smack.berlios.de/) but it needs to be compiled. I'm going to try building it at some point.

I looked at "smack" again and saw that it's not a plugin. Sorry for the misinformation.

[briandc]

Brian, you are partially correct. The source code for the Linux and all open-source applications it uses must be made available, but the maker may also write and include proprietary software as well (a proprietary vst host for example). The presence of Linux doesn't guarantee that everything is open-source..... Google's Android OS (which is actually a Java VM running on Linux) is one example of this

I stand corrected.

I'm just anxious to see everyone move closer to open-source and freeware. It's so nice to share!

Besides, that's how new ideas come along..from others who did things before us.

brian

[glokraw]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dssi/files/hexter/

http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html

"2012/11/1: hexter celebrates its eighth birthday with an integrated patch editor and a version 1.0.0 designation. Also included are more patch loading enhancements, NRPN parameter mapping, and the option to use floating-point math in the synthesis code instead of fixed-point."

Yamaha DX7 sysex 'rompler', now has patch editing, a great addition to linux users
who want to design/modify sounds! Run a few instances, each with different
rakarrack fx

[briandc]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dssi/files/hexter/

http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html

"2012/11/1: hexter celebrates its eighth birthday with an integrated patch editor and a version 1.0.0 designation. Also included are more patch loading enhancements, NRPN parameter mapping, and the option to use floating-point math in the synthesis code instead of fixed-point."

Yamaha DX7 sysex 'rompler', now has patch editing, a great addition to linux users
who want to design/modify sounds! Run a few instances, each with different
rakarrack fx

COOOL! I was really "worried" that patch editing would never be added, but this is more than I expected. There are tons of patches for this thing, I guess that people have "donated" directly from their DX7s, and you can find them here:

http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7858

Enjoy!!

brian

[glokraw]

Here are the editing choices in the new version linux Hexter 1.0x, the sysex loading DX7 rompler, that now has lots of editing features. Sean Bolton has been hard at work!

Performance Tab:

pitchbend
portamento time
modwheel sensitivity
modwheel assign p, a, or e
foot sensitivity
foot assign p, a, or e
pressure sensitivity
pressure assign p, a, or e
breath sensitivity
breath assign p, a, or e
send test note, with key and velocity sliders

Edit Menu-->Edit Patch page:

widget to see and select 32 algos

widget for 7 levels of feedback

6 operators, each with

Frequency Mode, Coarse, Fine, Detune

OL widget, 0-99 for each of 6 operators

Envelope Curve, left/right -Lin -Exp +Lin +Exp

Level Scaling Breakpoint, Rate Scaling

Discard changes button or save changes into patchbank button


Four stage envelopes and gui for both rate and level

Velocity and Amp Mod sensitivity

Global operator page with

Transpose
Osc Key Sync
Speed, delay, PMD, AMD
Wave selector, Tri, Saw+ Saw- Square Sine S/H with Sync and PMS 1-7 range

Four stage pitch envelopes for both rate and level, 0-99 range, with gui

Editor Mode: optional old school numeric display.

Configuration tab:

Tuning
Volume (db)
polyphany (instance) 1-64
polyphony (global) 1-64
monophonic mode off, on, once, both
disable LFO/Mod/Perf (0.5x compatibility) on/off
sysex channel receive 1-16
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Each instance shows 2% cpu use on old amd dual core, (1900 each)
probably wouldn't even blip an i7, so massive amounts of the Deckard
sysex files collection could be played at once, using multiple instances.
deckard.zip is found here, scroll down to patches section,
as well as other sources and DX7 infos:

http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/mth192/pages/html/dx7.html

Hexter paired and routed willynilly to multiple rakarrack multi-fx,
is crazy sonic goodness.

[jeffh]

Hi all,

For those interested in DAWs, synthesizers, samplers, and effects for Linux, I've released a full suite of them with my new project 'PyDAW', you can check them out here:

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/pydaw-by-libmodsynth
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmodsynth/

It's designed specifically for people producing MIDI-based electronic music with instrument/effect plugins(if you're recording a band, you're probably better off with something else).

About each component:

PyDAW: A unique take on the DAW concept, taking a very pattern-based approach, somewhere between DAW, tracker and drum machine. Features offline rendering(a rarity in Linux DAWs), strong multi-core CPU support, high accuracy audio/MIDI engine with sample-accurate MIDI timing.

Euphoria: A sampler with modular effects, somewhat inspired by Kontakt, but without all of the endless clicking/scrolling/unfolding/folding that makes me hate Kontakt
. Euphoria is suitable for both drums and instruments.

Ray-V: Retro analog-style synthesizer, you've seen the type before...

Modulex: A modular multieffect unit currently featuring 16 different effects, with more planned


The project is moving quickly, I was writing the first lines of code just 11 months ago, and now the entire stack is finally stable and usable. I'm planning on finishing a couple more major features of the DAW component, then I'll start adding more and different types of plugin instruments and effects...

[glokraw]

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/pydaw-by-libmodsynth
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmodsynth/

Thats an impressive project you have going
And a .deb package at the web page is a nice touch,
since musicians often must compile new software releases,
and some of them are just drummers with a guitar in the corner

Thanks for sharing your hard work!