On Wednesday 02 April 2008 03:18:35 Norval Watson wrote: > I have been using Renoise new Linux port for about a month. It's the first > software I ever paid for, to get the full .wav exporting features etc. The > Renoise community is very friendly and supportive. It runs fine on Linux, > but it's still 32-bit so you can't run it with jack and vst instruments on > 64-bit just yet. But the 64-bit port is just round the corner. > > Renoise is blindingly fast once you learn the keyboard shortcuts. You can > run the whole shebang off the PC keyboard with very little mousing but I > also use a Korg drum controller and a MIDI keyboard. It is very easy to map > pan, vol and fx parameters to the faders and sliders on a MIDI keyboard. > > The sample editor and instrument editor are very good and you can get an > infinite variety of sounds from the included set of basic sounds. So the > lack of jack and VSTs in 64-bit is not such a problem for keen tweakers. > Its very easy to add effects to tracks, sub-groups and the master and again > the included effects are very good. > > I never used a tracker before Renoise and it does take a little while to > adjust to the different way of composing. > > I also use Freewheeling, Ardour2, seq24 and Rosegarden (and others) > depending on the project. But for quickly blocking in a musical idea it is > hard to go past Renoise because you can compose multi-pattern, multi-track > pieces almost as fast as you can think them up. And then take the piece to > full production quality. And not just music - people are using it for > soundtracks as well. > > But its not as fast as Freewheeling and for live improv Freewheeling is the > king IMHO! But Renoise gives you more control over mixing, panning and > effects etc. after the fact. > > Hope this helps, > Norv > Ok, thanks for the explanations... And how does these programs compare to ones like cubase and FL studio? Dirk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
