Some breakthroughs have led me to finally and definitively abandon microshit's spyware.
I had been staying on wangblows for the audio software but had no idea Linux production had come so far.
My DAW [Renoise] has a fucking excellent native linux version that exceeds WIndows performance in some cases. Grabbing audio to feed into its sampler is easier than ever with youtube-dl and ffmpeg.
yabridge lets you convert Windows VSTs to run through Wine, the ones I've tried have worked seamlessly albeit with a little overhead.
Takes a tiny bit of elbow grease to get it optimized enough for serious use, but it's pretty simple once you get past initial setup and it even supports VST3.
Feels pretty good to be making music on a system I have so much control over, it's actually given me a lot of inspiration to work on new material.
Are you a composer or producer who runs Linux? What's your workflow/software?
>>10298Based
I use Ardour, Vital, Helm, Geomkick, Surge, Stochas, sfizz, eq10q, and some other stuff like calf plugins.
I'm a total noob though so those might be terrible tool choices.
>>10740i use bitwig (pirated ofc too - btw what version is yours? i have a 3.something) on ubuntu studio, and it crashed my whole computer, which is super rare for linux. It was weird
I'll tell you if it works with guitar when i get that set up
>>10742i heard gen3 doesnt work well with linux possibly?
>>10744Using 4.0.1 from
https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6090753Lmk if you get a guitar sorted out, and what stack you use for that.
I'm unironically switching to WIndows for the sole purpose of music. I tried Ardour, it has a really shitty UI, you can't even change language through the GUI, and the creator says he will never implement that cause you can just LC_ALL=X, I can tell where the priorities lie.
LMMS is very unfinished and broken, and Renoise is like going from Photoshop to GIMP; its functional, but its a completely different workflow. I suck at music, and I wanna learn how to not suck, now how to use a completely different program. Bitwig looks decent, but I don't have money and all the cracked versions are old.
I tried WINE but it was just broken. This coupled with old JP games not being very kind to WINE (and font rendering) has triggered me to make the switch. Bless Bill Gates. Bless Windows.
**I am cucked out of using my phone as a microphone on Windows unless I use some shady closed source chinese driver. In Linux its literally just a script where you join a VC in mumble with your phone, and it makes a loopback
device out of your output so you can use it as input.
People shit on PulseAudio and potternigware but Linux audio config and routing is miles better than Windows**
>>12207based
if I have to spend hours fighting with a linux distro that can't even run multiple windows programs rather than using that time actualy doing stuff it's not worth it
linux fags can enjoy avoiding windows spyware while having their web browsing logged by their internet provider anyways while the rest of us can get on with our lives
>>12215Linux has better productivity features than Windows, you just have to bother using them. If you can't configure a particular distro just try one of the newbie friendly distros. It's not like on windows where you only got a single option.
>can't even run multiple windows programsLinux has pretty good cross platform compatibility. There also are linux programs that do not run on windows which totally invalidates windows by your logic.
>linux chads can enjoy avoiding windows spywareyes absolutely
>>12215>linux fags can enjoy avoiding windows spyware while having their web browsing logged by their internet provider anywaysdon't let the perfect be the enemy of the good
also anonnets exist
>>12270Windows became the dominant desktop operating system while having worse bugs. And this video is not representative of the normal "Linux experience" they are specifically going for gaming, which is still in the process of maturing because historically Linuxers didn't care much about gaming because they wanted the play with the computer operating system more than they wanted to play games. And going with Nvidia cards which are notoriously finicky also made their experience worse, by contrast Amd cards for the most part just work without any configuration, unless you want advanced features.
Very few video games are actually opensource software which makes them harder to install on linux. In the next 10 years game engines and game content will become separate programs, so that only a few engine software packages have to be optimized and debugged while the game content software packages will become a lot more portable on the technical end. Think of it like the game engine being like a video player and the game content package like a mp4 file. Eventually there will be opensource game engine packages that can play most game-content packs, that's when all of this becomes easier.
>>12341There are a bunch of linux youtubers that produce their videos on Linux, they probably have tutorials on how they do that, and if you copy what they do and use the same or similar hardware as they do, it probably will work on first try.
>>12340I think his comment of freedom is wrong, in Linux you really can add any functionality you want, while in windows you just can't. What Microsoft does is lay down a path where a lot of the time "id just worgs" but anybody who wants to go into another direction has to fight with technology on a level that is far worse than anything on the Linux side. There are people on windows that again have to fight with technology just to configure what their default browser is, that is a good indicator that Microsoft is trying to make their path narrower. If the audio stack on Linux sucks then that is cause for constructive criticism, not for tooting the corporate horn.
>>10298>My DAW [Renoise] has a fucking excellent native linux version that exceeds WIndows performance in some casesholy fuck
renoise is my DAW too
and music production was something that kept me on the fence about switching to linux
thanks for the heads up pal
>>16147anything that advertises itself as class compliant should work with ALSA and JACK out of the box
https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/class-compliant/the M-Audio AIR interfaces are good
>>22405yea im the anon that made the post, and tried it out with renoise windows binary running in wine
but the GUI was all fucked up and i didnt know how to fix it
i cant find a FOSS equivalent…F.'em comes close but it looks even worse and is proprietary
oh and zynaddsubfx which i'll content myself with
>>22413>gtk4There is also
https://ardour.org/ that is still using gtk2.
>>22442GTK depends on dbus (or more specifically atk) since gtk3. Many gtk4 applications deliberately don't respect the system theming (see
https://stopthemingmy.app). It doesn't help that with each new version gtk becomes slower and more bloated, which is the reason i purged any software depending on gtk3 or later from my laptop.
Many post-gtk3 applications also use flat design, as is evident in the zrythm screenshot with many graphic elements not being clearly visible buttons and monochromatic. The only things it gets right are the noticeable separators between menus, a few skeumorphisms, the wide color range and the dense ui. I really like the motif-inspired design gtk2 has by default.
>>22457It was discussed in
>>22029 where i posted a test by the LXDE devs confirming GTK-based DEs were becoming more bloated.
If you have any of these DJ controllers
https://manual.mixxx.org/2.3/en/hardware/manuals.html#hardware-manuals, you can use it with Mixxx without any in-depth configuration needed
>>22894There are also other MIDI mapping presets on the forums
You can also do your own MIDI mapping
https://manual.mixxx.org/2.3/en/chapters/advanced_topics#advanced-controller >Ctrl-F Tracker>Only rutrackerReally no trackerchads in the linux musician thread? Crispy 8bit PCM is all you need. No LADSPA or Dirty Nonfree VSTs. So which will it be
>Schism Tracker<MilkyTracker>>16338One of my friends from highschool turned into this, and it's sad to watch his decline into failson white rapper. He made decent techno and trance back in the day…
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