On Tue, February 5, 2013 3:25 am, Brendan Jones wrote: > On 02/04/2013 05:09 PM, Aurélien Leblond wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> My composition workflow is based on loops - starting by creating rythms >> in Hydrogen and recording a few drum loops in Ardour, creating a bass >> line with amSynth or ZynAddSubFX and recording a few bass loops in >> Ardour, recording some guitars in Ardour and creating some samples from >> that... >> >> The difficulty I'm having in Linux is to create composition from those >> loops. >> In Ardour is is time consuming to reorganise the loops to test new >> order/composition (because Ardour is not meant for that). >> >> My idea of a workflow would be to have a tool to try out the different >> loops in different order and "jam" with them to see what works and what >> doesn't. >> >> Then once that would be done - I would re-record everything properly in >> Ardour (drums with multiple tracks, breaks, etc... a more natural way of >> playing, guitar played and not looped, etc) >> >> I have done some research and found "only" 6 tools: >> - LMMS - it is mentionned several times that it is designed around loop >> composition, but I'm not sure about being able to jam with them. (but at >> least being able to compose and move the loops around would be handy) >> - Luppp, SooperLooper and FreeWheeling - they more look like software >> version of JamMan to me and meant to be played "live"... >> - Giada - that's the last one I found, but the website describes a tool >> more for DJing and looping complete songs instead of actual instrument >> loops... >> - Bitwig - I guess Bitwig will be THE killer tool to work with loops >> from what I could tell from the website.....but we are still talking a >> few months before general availability... >> >> I admit, I didn't really try these tools - I was hoping if anybody in >> the community had a similar workflow and could advise in anyway :) >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Aurélien >> > > I use seq24 in live mode to queue samples in hydrogen. You can turn your > patterns on on off via keyboard or midi. Useful if you already have some > base samples/loops, but is not really what you are after I think. > TerminatorX and Composite might be useful too. But Hydrogen by itself is a pretty powerful looping interface. Can definitely be used in the way you describe by turning on/off the loop patterns in song mode. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
