free music-creating software
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Thecenterofthesun Thecenterofthesun https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=63767
- KVRer
- 2 posts since 2 Apr, 2005
is there any free program on the net like reason or FLstudio...???
music & mass destruction
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- KVRAF
- 2748 posts since 15 Apr, 2004 from Capital City, UK
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- KVRAF
- 2285 posts since 20 Dec, 2002 from The Benighted States of Trumpistan
Psycle seems to be more active than Buzz, but they both rock ass.
You can also do a lot with Jazz++, Audacity, SynthFont, and the demo of Multitrack Studio -- but it's really indirect, slow, and painful.
Delta SP and that Frieve Independence thingy don't like me; they might like you.
Just spend some cash; Multitrack Studio, N-Track Studio, and Tracktion are all inexpensive and powerful. A friend of mine swears by that Magix thing.
There's also Linux -- cheap on the wallet but expensive on the clock. Really, really expensive in terms of time, but it has all you need. Of course, if you're on a Mac, somebody may have ported these apps (since it's all just flavors of UNIX).
You can also do a lot with Jazz++, Audacity, SynthFont, and the demo of Multitrack Studio -- but it's really indirect, slow, and painful.
Delta SP and that Frieve Independence thingy don't like me; they might like you.
Just spend some cash; Multitrack Studio, N-Track Studio, and Tracktion are all inexpensive and powerful. A friend of mine swears by that Magix thing.
There's also Linux -- cheap on the wallet but expensive on the clock. Really, really expensive in terms of time, but it has all you need. Of course, if you're on a Mac, somebody may have ported these apps (since it's all just flavors of UNIX).
Wait... loot _then_ burn? D'oh!
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- KVRist
- 31 posts since 11 Oct, 2003
Just get the computer music magazing package that uses the perfectly usable Muzys, and that is all you need for probably most tasks. that is all of 15 bucks with a sampler, synths, and various effects etc.. one stop shoping and you get the mag too!
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- KVRAF
- 2285 posts since 20 Dec, 2002 from The Benighted States of Trumpistan
Doesn't CM Muzys have crippled audio recording?psych wrote:Just get the computer music magazing package that uses the perfectly usable Muzys, and that is all you need for probably most tasks. that is all of 15 bucks with a sampler, synths, and various effects etc.. one stop shoping and you get the mag too!
Not that that's a major issue; Audacity works fine for recording and mixing audio.
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- KVRAF
- 7412 posts since 8 Feb, 2003 from London, UK
Not sure what you mean but CMuzys records audio just as well as full Muzys.Jafo wrote:Doesn't CM Muzys have crippled audio recording?
It's a MIDI tool, though, with only enough audio support to capture samples for playback. Full Muzys is slightly more competent but still really focussed on MIDI and synthesis rather than audio editing.
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- KVRAF
- 2285 posts since 20 Dec, 2002 from The Benighted States of Trumpistan
Yeah, I'd call that pretty much crippled. Gotta have my audio tracks!pljones wrote:Not sure what you mean but CMuzys records audio just as well as full Muzys.Jafo wrote:Doesn't CM Muzys have crippled audio recording?
It's a MIDI tool, though, with only enough audio support to capture samples for playback.
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Jafo, have you tried setting up, for example, Rosegarden on a recent distro? I'm planning to try it on a Fedora Core 3 box, but there's too much else to do at the moment (isn't that always the case?). I'd be interested in hearing the experiencs of people who are getting music out of a Linux machine -- you or others.
Meffy
Meffy
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- KVRAF
- 7412 posts since 8 Feb, 2003 from London, UK
Nope, that's not "crippled", that's "poor choice of tool".Jafo wrote:Yeah, I'd call that pretty much crippled. Gotta have my audio tracks!
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- KVRist
- 114 posts since 9 Feb, 2005
Meffy wrote:Jafo, have you tried setting up, for example, Rosegarden on a recent distro? I'm planning to try it on a Fedora Core 3 box, but there's too much else to do at the moment (isn't that always the case?). I'd be interested in hearing the experiencs of people who are getting music out of a Linux machine -- you or others.
Meffy
hi meffy,
i just set up Rosegarden on Debian some days ago. It's in the standard repository of Debian so you have absolutely no trouble installing it, just typing "apt-get install rosegarden4" does the job.
i don't know wether the Fedora repositories provide a pre-compiled Rosegarden, but I'm pretty sure somebody has packaged it:-)
Anyway, I didn't put much work into using it since then cause I once again had to accept the fact that this kind of adventure needs time. That's the one thing you have to bring along when you want to become a reasonable Linux musician, but I'm sure you already know about that:-)
From the posts I read and experiences I heard so far there seems to be absolutely no problem getting as good results out of Rosegarden as out of any other sequencer. The problem again: time.
You need time to get used to the new environment, to find some replacement-plugins for the ones you're used to. There is a way to use some VST plugins combined with Wine, but it doesn't work that well, yet.
So - if you have time and are willing to put some weeks of effort into "learning Rosegarden and Alsa" - do it! I'm quite sure you won't be disappointed.
I just bought an EnergyXT license because of this reason:-)