On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:43:33 -0400 Brett McCoy <idragosani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Darrin Thompson <darrinth@xxxxxxxxx> >wrote: > >> I have a project coming up to compose some music for a video game I'm >> making. I want to keep costs low everywhere except for sample >> libraries. Given my past experience I'd like to overspend there a >> bit. I'm really impressed with how Sonivox samples sound and I'd >> prefer to do my sequencing and mixing with open source tools. >> I'm shooting for a tween bubble gum sound hoping to appeal to the >> "likes iCarly" crowd. I'm interested in opinions/pointers to the >> sequencer, audio effects, and any experiences people have had with >> sample libraries, particularly Sonivox. I'm comforable with Ardour >> although I have doubts about my actual mixing skills. > >I'm not familiar with Sonivox but I use high-end samples on an almost >daily basis (EWQL, Kontakt, etc). They are all Windows based sample >libraries, however, and I host them using Reaper x64 on a Windows 7 >box, and do all of my sequencing and mixing with Rosegarden and Ardour >respectively, on Linux, of course, using QMidiNet/ipMIDI between the >two machines. > >What sample engine are you using? > The windows box solution, is probably the easiest way to work with expensive sample collections, but I have to say that sequencing and sampling on the same linux box is a challenging and instructive experiment worth to try. I spent a lot of time to convert huge .nks files (kontakt) to gigastudio instruments, so that I could use them in LinuxSampler, but now i can tweak every single parameter and, more important, on a single linux system. The software chain I use: Qtractor(sequence)-> ->LinuxSampler-> ->Qtractor(mixer + effect plugins)-> ->audio output/ardour recording performance are excellent, i can sequence an entire symphonic orchestra even on a netbook, it seems much lighter than kontakt on windows. Ciao! -- Asa Marco <marcoasa90@xxxxxxxxx> æ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
