Well, I use Swami to build my own sound fonts, I have some quite gritty ones, cause my old band-mate is the producer for The Freestyle Fellowship (if you haven't heard of them, they've been the underground legends of Hi Hop for 12 years now). Anyways I find Csound to be the tool of choice for serious composition in a linux only environment. Personally I don't go quite that far, I use muse and rosegarden to sequnce my midi gear, I have an asrx pro and a korg electribe s. Unfortunately I've found jack/iiwusynth to be too unstable to work with. Thus I'm using midi and muse to sequence my outboard gear and then I use broadcast2000 to record the tracks and to overdub acoustic instruments. Its not completely linux only, but linux is the only computer os I use in making my music. On 13 Jul 2003, Hartmut Z Noack wrote: > I downloaded the track "nasty valve1" an gave it a listen. > Hmmm the Intro is quite impressing - lot of personality, cool groove. > But after 20 seconds or so i hear a GM-Drumkit wich reminds me of a > Yamaha middleclass PSR-Preset - not that much personality anymore - > quite plastic i must say. > I do not blame this on your friend/musician - i guess the problem is > iiuwsynth`s soundfont-bullshit. > Whithout an implementation of a real drumsampler, Muse cannot do much > better i fear. > The Synthsounds are very promising though... > > Am Fre, 2003-07-11 um 16.14 schrieb Robert Jonsson: > > Hi guys and gals, > > > > A friend of mine has been doing some very serious attempts at producing music > > with a fully linux based setup lately. > > There has been lots of pitfalls along the way, but since he is a _very_ > > dedicated guy he has come a long way towards pulling of his goal. > > > > The goal in question being to produce an "album" purely in linux. (album in > > the sense that the songs are freely downloadable from the same web page on > > the net, i think ;) ) > > > > He has just started to document the thing, you can have a look here: > > http://computerville.homeip.net/linuxmusic/, there are also some samples of > > what he has produced this far, in my opinion it shows that linux audio is > > getting 'there'. > > > > Have a nice weekend, > > Robert > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
