left windows, now I need to make music on linux

buyo · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 54 Location: San Francisco

I am looking for a good general purpose audio app for linux. I know there is "no contest" yet between the wonderful toys we have available on Mac and Win, but surely there has got to be something good for creating music! I have been considering Rosegarden, Rezound, Glame, and Audacity, but I wanted to know what some of your experiences have been with these packages (or any other notables). Thanks for the help.
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srob99 · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Perth WA

I suppose it all depends on what sort of music you want to create!

terminatorX is damn fine at what it does, for example..

You've probably been here, but just in case, heres a very nice web site:

http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/one-page.html

brotherswing71 · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Michigan, USA

for the record, Audacity is nice, not quite SoundForge, but not quite $400 either!

Don't forget tk707.
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hanta · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:22 pm Post subject:

zie · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 126

use ck-kernel (i think it is what the thing is called) for the lowest latency. I haven't really try it yet as currently i don't have too many drop outs.

For sequencer definitely get rosegarden, and it is the only one availablein the portage tree. Development is really fast lately.

If you just want to use your box for music production, then consider agnula project.
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/etc/init.d/alsasound start
* ALSA driver is already running.

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HeartBreakKid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 76

http://ardour.sf.net

It's all I use... Get's the job done.

buyo · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 54 Location: San Francisco

The great thing about linux is that each person can choose what they want to do with a computer. However, it's times like these, when each response is a different opinion, that I realize this freedom to also be a curse. A wonderful curse, but a curse nonetheless. I went with Rezound because it looked like the most simple (in my highly scientific quick screenshot analysis :wink:

) I will let y'all know how it goes.
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hook · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:37 am Post subject:

also you might like to try [url="http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/"]sweep[/url] (in portage ...fairly small)
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buyo · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 54 Location: San Francisco

Thanks hook! I have a perfect need for the "scrubbing" ability in sweep.

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hook · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 8:15 am Post subject: Re: thanks!