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From: White Spirit on 29 Apr 2010 12:48
I'm looking for recommendations for music software. I'm interested
primarily in drum machine, synthesiser and recording software that
interact well together. For recording guitar parts, I'll probably use
Ardour.

I'm also interested in compatible MIDI interfaces to attach a MIDI keyboard.
From: Greg Russell on 29 Apr 2010 13:45
"White Spirit" <wspirit(a)homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message
news:hrcd9b$78t$1(a)news.eternal-september.org ...

> I'm looking for recommendations for music software. ...

What did you find when you searched http://sourceforge.net and
http://freshmeat.net ?


From: Robert Riches on 30 Apr 2010 00:52
On 2010-04-29, White Spirit <wspirit(a)homechoice.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations for music software. I'm interested
> primarily in drum machine, synthesiser and recording software that
> interact well together. For recording guitar parts, I'll probably use
> Ardour.
>
> I'm also interested in compatible MIDI interfaces to attach a MIDI keyboard.

For the MIDI interface, this one works for me--output of lsusb:

ID 0763:0150 Midiman M-Audio Uno

Sorry, I don't have the packaging handy, and the device is behind
a door and not readily accessible.

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From: Sylvain Robitaille on 30 Apr 2010 01:33
White Spirit wrote:

> I'm looking for recommendations for music software.

Googling for Linux audio should help. You'll find the following two
near the top of the results list:

http://www.linuxaudio.org/
http://linux-sound.org/

You probably want to check what else Google finds, but the above two are
really good starting points.

> I'm interested primarily in ...
> drum machine,

Hydrogen; I'm sure there are others, but this is the best known, and
perhaps the most mature of that ilk, in open-source software.

> synthesiser

You'll need to be more specific. There are many types of hardware
synthesizers, and many more types of software synthesizers. For
something that emulates well-known hardware synths, check out Bristol.
For a rather well done software emulation of a generic analogue synth,
see amSynth. See also FluidSynth/QtSynth, pure-data, csound, cumulus,
and any number of others. What works for you here will depend largely
on how you expect to work with a "synthesizer".

> and recording software ...

Ardour is king. See also Frinika, Audacity, ProTux, SLab, Traverso
looks interesting, there are others.

> that interact well together.

Applications that are "JACK-aware" will interoperate well. Most of the
above apps that are under active development are JACK-aware. See the
documentation for individual apps for specific details.

> I'm also interested in compatible MIDI interfaces to attach a MIDI
> keyboard.

See the ALSA hardware compatibility matrix.

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From: White Spirit on 30 Apr 2010 11:50
Thanks for the suggestions. I've looked at hydrogen already and am
impressed with it. I need to try out more synth programmes but
RoseGarden is looking good for composing and editing.

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