On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:44:23 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Ken Locarnini <renueden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm happy to be back after about 2 years away from Linux. The > audio/music world seems to be taking off and thats great. Indeed! > I'd like some general comments on what would be peoples favorite > reactor type synth in Linux as of now. I'm primarily interested in > realtime, multi timbral midi controlled synths. I simply love csound. It's flexible, powerful, stable and well documented. I know that some (most?) people find the fact that it's text based a minus, but I don't agree. After working with pd intensely for a couple of weeks I realized that I work much faster in csound. I'm running csound under debian/unstable on kernel 2.6.0-test5 with a csound buffersize of 128 on a PIV 2400 laptop, using Evolution USB keyboards as controllers. I have more polyphony in real time than I can use with two hands for "normal" (subtractive, fm, sample playback, soundfont playback, additive) patches. This is even with a few global FX units (chorus, delay and rotary speaker) running all the time. The only not-so-nice thing about csound is that I didn't manage (or try that hard, actually) to make it run alongside other sound-producing applications, including jack, pd or fluidsynth. Could be a problem if you want to use LADSPA plugins or do hd-recording... > How about sequencers? I didn't work much with sequencers under linux, but FWIW I've settled on Muse. Needless to say it's quite simple to route midi events from Muse to csound. -- peace, love & harmony Atte
