Ho there fellow BotBr's!

I have an announcement, switched from Windoze to GNU/Linux (Linux Mint and Ubuntu Studio 64 in my case) and found to my surprise, after a little effort that I could boost the capability of Renoise to far greater levels that outperforms the Windoze-version by a large margin.

Linux Audio is COMPLEX but is inherently better than Windoze. To explain all the details would take too long, so ask me crap. I'll give you an answer! ;)

Sure, it's HARDER, but, with Ubuntu Studio and other Distros, you CAN make >fully< professional music with >open-source alternatives< (aka free) that are as good, if not equal and ABOVE any and ALL competing Closed-Source software! :)

As most know, the biggest and most popular Music Software for Windoze and Mhack usually cost you an arm and a leg, and for no good reason. One should NOT have to PAY to make MUSIC! :)

In simple terms - If you focus your system on ONE specific task, you CAN turn your old, low-end, sluggish computer in to a pure-bred INSTRUMENT, a true Music-Machine!.

Take a crappy old computer, buy a decent sound-card, install, configure, optimize and use it ONLY for music.

Computers are tools. Use another computer for games and multi-media.

I will give a list of Open-Source alternatives to damn near ANY "professional" software that you have to PAY for, there is always another way in time...

- Side-Note
Also, in the future, I WILL build my own GNU/Linux Distro, based on minimalism, configurability, quality and optimal function of low-end hardware.

Further in the future, I will buy, build, install and configure Linux "Music Boxes" and since you can't legally make money on Open-Source that would be free.

Also, to request money for the installation and configuring of the software is just something I won't do. I mean, it's quick and easy for me.

Best of all. I need no profit margin to do this. I just need to cover the cost basically, and I'll only make profit from the assembly of the parts.

I just *need* to cover the hardware...

So, in short, this computer will be cheap, very cheap, simple, and used for ONLY music. It will become a tool for alternative expression, and used as proof that you can do as well, and better, for free.

Signing off! :D

(I wonder if he likes Windows)

do u hav a daw

edit: which daw is it

hello

friendly reminder that this is a pretty weird thread

wait also that it's not an invitation to shitpost

I'll chime in with some personal experiences/thoughts/gripes about working in GNU/Linux land:

The good:

* OpenMPT works exceptionally well in Wine (props to the devs for actually supporting Wine).
* Deflemask works natively and is somewhat decent tracker-wise (it used to be pretty iffy but the last release, v12, has been a solid improvement).
* There's some other cross-platform/native tools I've used like TIATracker, xpmck, Adlib Tracker II, SNESMOD, SunVox, GoatTracker, etc. that seem to work pretty well to the extent that I've used them.
* Other decent Windows tools that I've used that work fine under Wine: Vortex Tracker II, NSFPlay, Beepola

The okay/not-so-good:

* FamiTracker: There's a slight usability issue with the instrument editor with selecting different instrument effects, but that can be worked around. There's also some minor weird rendering artifacts sometimes. Other than that, FT works pretty well under wine (as of version 0.4.6).
* 0CC-FT: does not work well under Wine :(. Opening up the configuration dialog or selecting any instrument effect in the instrument editor causes the whole program to lock up for some reason. Strange since FT works alright under Wine. At least opening and playing back modules still works.
* I haven't found a good MIDI workflow for GNU/Linux yet. For playback I've been using FluidSynth and GM.DLS from Windows converted to SF2. Qtractor seems alright but feels a bit clunky (might just be the difference between tracker and sequencer interfaces). Also it uses JACK which works okay with my normal ALSA + PulseAudio setup but seems to need exclusive control of the audio device.
* Speaking of JACK, Renoise also uses it, and other than the issue I have with JACK in general, it seems to work fine from what I've seen.

I've also been meaning to look into some more big-boy tools like LMMS or Ardour but haven't gotten around to playing around with those yet. If you have any suggestions/recommendations for production software that would be nice. (Though I do still like my trackers and might end up sticking with them!)

And just FYI, you CAN legally sell free/open-source software, even if it's GPL-based, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney

But yeah, nice to have more people using GNU/Linux :)

i never figured out JACK; frankly i think audio is one of the things that linux does *not* do well

analog audio on a chromebook is an enigma in the eyes of Linux

Cool, welcome abroad!

There are good things on Linux, and a few others are worse. I find Jack quite complicated, and sometimes you can get sound only when it's off.
On the other hand it can be quite versatile and helpful on some aspects. For example you don't need some extra software/shareware and such for starting a virtual midi port.

Alsa is not so nice, and pulseaudio is pure crap, the sound is audibly worse with it (sometimes it just get havoc and starts to crack and such). It's a pity so many software rely on it so you can't simply get rid of it (I've removed it, and everything was better except firefox couldn't play html5 audio :()

Most software that I need are either native to linux or works well with wine.

I'd like Beepola to works better with wine, the sound is ok and suddenly is begins to sound bad during replay. I think it lacks an option to increase the buffer.

why is this in Project Dev

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