On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:26 PM, James Stone <jamesmstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Jeremy Jongepier > <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 05/12/2011 10:48 AM, Ken Restivo wrote: >>> My 10-year-old daughter has started to express some interest in music. >>> >>> Somewhat predictably (and perhaps unfortunately too) she is into pop-star house stuff: Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Taio Cruz, Katy Perry, things of that nature. I know nothing of that style of music-- other then occasionally hearing it at the gym-- and I've no idea what tools are used to get those sounds. >>> >>> She's got a rather ancient Debian ThinkPad Âof her own, with a working sound card. And I've got her set up with the basics, including the zita-at1 autotuner which so far to my ears seems to be the the number 1 most important ingredient in this style of music. >> >> Hello Ken, >> >> True :) If you've ever heard Katy Perry sing live without it you'll >> understand why ;) >> >>> >>> Are there any synths on Linux which I could set up for her which are good for getting those kinds of house/techno/pop sounds? >>> >> > > For an all-in-one option, Neil is pretty ideal I would say (recording > vocals could be tricky but still do-able using the record machine > plugin). > Sorry - forgot the link to Neil - http://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/ Also I forgot to mention it has masses of synths built-in (unlike renoise). James _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
