Mark Knecht wrote: > 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. > There is a page for this. http://devdsp.net/index.pl?main=noizefarm -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No! We want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything I've ever done. Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002 The Scotsman
