On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Some pro composers like Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer compose that way, >> improvise on a keyboard to a video until they find something they >> like, then hand stuff off to their orchestrators. > > > i have a friend who has done a bit of film scoring and quite a lot of TV > incidental stuff. he can regularly churn out "40 seconds of parisian street > vibe with a techno undertone and hints of ethnic" or "farm fields with a > threatening backdrop" in about 5 minutes. > > needless to say, none of the tools he uses run natively on linux, and > there's sadly nothing native for linux that he could use to do that job at > that speed. I know what some of those tools are (or know of similar kinds), some composers love those, and others hate them. -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world." -- Jelaleddin Rumi _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user