@aud @mntmn my favorite Linux music software is #mollytime, but I'm biased because I wrote it.

Rosegarden handles realtime playback completely wrong, but it is ok as a MIDI editor. I've been using Tenacity for simple edits of recordings and to converting WAVs to other formats.

I don't really use Windows for music (beyond keeping the windows version of mollytime more or less at parity), and I've never used Macos for music.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! i recorded a #mollytime patch-from-scratch video to celebrate. 71 minutes is probably too long to post on mastodon, so here's a you-tube link instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQX588JlVFg

the grand finale starts at 1:10:02 if you wanna skip past all the slow build up

ok I wrote said pygame app and powered through ranking random instrument sounds in terms of relative kiki-ness, and made the resulting lookup table into a midi parameter tile in #mollytime.

this is the result:
(video with sound)

I recorded a video of me constructing a self-playing #mollytime patch from scratch, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :O.

If you don't want watch in mostly silence as I set up the basic structure of the patch for ten minutes and thirty six seconds, the music picks up at around 10:36.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qHcTszBhU