On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:25, Rick Taylor wrote: > Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Reaktor > > ftp://www.slabexchange.org/pub/audio/bristol-0.9.1-linux-glibc.tar.bz2 > > {Ok... so it's not Reaktor} > > He's not got any real info on his pages for it... I'm saving you a step. > Yes, I've used it, but it's not even in the same game, much less the same league. I think the much more similar might be something more like AMS, which I admit I haven't used. It looks quite good though. It does raise an interesting point for me though. The reason I went with Reaktor Session and not Reaktor is that I do NOT want to program sounds. I just wanted to get a bunch of preprogrammed synths and find some new sounds that I could use, which I was able to do in about 10 minutes of installation. The neat thing (for me anyway) about Reaktor is the on-line user contributed library of about 1500 prebuilt synths that come with, on average, maybe 10 preprogrammed patches. That's a lot of stuff to get on day one. Why isn't something like that happening in the Linux soft synth area? Instead of having so many soft synths, which seems more a focus on writing software, why not more sounds for some existing soft synth, which seems more a focus on making music? I think we Linux soft synth users should try to make that happen. - Mark
