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Audacity is great! I would suggest also FluidSynth which is a SoundFont player, Traverso DAW which is a multi-track audio recorder and editor and Anvil Studio which is a free sequencer with optional plugins to purchase.
welcome, Logan! yes there are so many free and good plugins out there! I want to share this: Impro-Visor!
if you love jazz, you can't miss it! it's a tool to help musicians construct jazz solos over chord progressions. It includes a database capability for creating, saving, and recalling licks, as well as a lick generation capability based on a user-modifiable grammar.
More recent versions of Impro-Visor include auto-generated playback accompaniment in various styles, and a style extraction (from MIDI) capability. Huge!!
dustind said
I want to share this: Impro-Visor!!
Sounds very smooth and useful. Thank you for the link, I am looking forward to test driving Impro-Visor.
dustind said
welcome, Logan! yes there are so many free and good plugins out there! I want to share this: Impro-Visor!
if you love jazz, you can't miss it! it's a tool to help musicians construct jazz solos over chord progressions. It includes a database capability for creating, saving, and recalling licks, as well as a lick generation capability based on a user-modifiable grammar.
More recent versions of Impro-Visor include auto-generated playback accompaniment in various styles, and a style extraction (from MIDI) capability. Huge!!
Cool tip! Thanks D!
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Loganiii said
I will install Ardour in Ubuntu and test it out. Thank you for the suggestion!
You bet!
I'll also give honorable mention to Reaper. It isn't open source, but the trial is fully-functional, and it's a high bang/buck app with a highly-dedicated corps of users. It runs under OSX, Win, and Linux through Wine. At $60.00 US, not a heavy bank-breaker.
Triangle Exception
We have music! http://triangleexception.bandcamp.com
We have a website! http://triangleexception.com
Also available on iTunes and Amazon :)
I'm a little late to this thread, but I will second Ardour, I've been using it for years. It will run on Linux and Mac. There is a Windows port in testing, but I doubt it will ever see the light of day. Version 3 is currently in beta and finally brings MIDI to the table which has always been lacking. There were plenty of ways to link MIDI to sessions, but native is much better.
If you are looking for a full "environment", I highly recommend KXStudio. It is built on top of Ubuntu, but does all of the kernel hacking and tweaking to make your machine as efficient as possible as well as run the widest range of open source creation tools available. It includes meta packages for "Audio Production", "Video Production", and "Graphic Arts" which are packed with the best of the best apps in each category.
For audio production, my favorites are as follows:
- Ardour (DAW)
- Audacity (editing individual wave files and noise reduction. It's multi-track is OK, but Ardour is much better)
- Hydrogen (drum machine)
- Qtractor (sequencer)
- JAMin (Mastering suite)
- Rakarrack (realtime guitar multieffects)
- Mixxx (DJ interface)
- ZynAddSubFX (soft synth)
- Patchage (route inputs/outputs of any program or interface to any other program or interface)
- ffmpeg (convert to/from just about any audio or video format with every possible transcoding option)
- CALF plugins (good eq and reverbs)
- Steve Harris Plugins (great compressors/gate/limiter)
- TAP plugins
- Invada plugins (cpu intensive, but great interfaces and good sound)
Happy recording!
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I'M A FAN OF SONY ACID… I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S OPEN SOURCE, BUT IT GOOD AND INEXPENSIVE. GOOD FOR STARTING OUT. People are fans of different software's for different reasons, I use Reason for making my beats & it's like having an actual rack with the connections(wires-and you can actually move the wires around between devices) and the sound quality of the samples is second to none. A lot of people use fruity loops for instrumentals because it's easy to use, both cost money but, when you get SERIOUS you will want to upgrade. For recording Pro-tools is pretty much the industry standard, or cakewalk(sonar) is close(what I use). But these are the tools the PRO's use & once you get good at producing, recording or whatever you are doing,you will realize the limitations on your options & sound quality with open source programs. I know that this is a bit more than you asked for but, if you are serious about it, it's good to keep the top of the line products in mind. Here are some instrumentals that I have done with Reason 5.0
http://www.beatswagger.com/for…..ame=kdiggy
this was recorded using cakewalk
http://www.reverbnation.com/pl…..w/11536433
There is also a wealth of info. on recording and production & lots of features & demo's of different software's on youtube.com just search for "production software" etc.
Anyone know of good, strictly Open Source software that has a more permissive license, such as MIT / BSD / zlib? I'm a programmer and would like to incorporate some features into a game engine. I do not want to just play back the resulting music, I'd like to be able to work with the original algorithms and data used to make the music. Many of the options listed above are GPLed, which doesn't help me. I'm averse to contributing to GPL projects as it's like dumping potentially commercial and profitable work down a black hole. Doesn't mean I've never done it, for instance see the Battle for Wesnoth campaign I jointly authored called "To Lands Unknown." But I will not be dumping 4 months of full time work into something like that ever again. It undermines my financial freedom, keeps me from eating, and wastes my career time on non-standards that potential clients do not consider valuable.
I did a license check on the above listings, and of those, only FluidSynth has a somewhat looser LGPL license. Whether that's usable or not would depend on how the code is structured. I'd rather not deal with any LGPL entanglements at all, but I will investigate it if it's good and I don't find much else.
kdiggy said
Here are some instrumentals that I have done with Reason 5.0http://www.beatswagger.com/for…..ame=kdiggy
this was recorded using cakewalk
http://www.reverbnation.com/pl…..w/11536433
There is also a wealth of info. on recording and production & lots of features & demo's of different software's on youtube.com just search for "production software" etc.
Kdiggy, thank you for posting samples. I dig the vocals on "Twist."
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