Lucie / minute1d ago
do you make music on Linux, and what's your favorite software to work with? and what do you miss the most from Linux music/audio software that exists on other platforms?
Show threadgahlord1d ago

@mntmn I do not yet make music on Linux but the things I worry about are: SoX, a useful DAW (currently use Logic, small list of plugins I like but could live with stock plugins), I/O — I have a merging tech Hapi interface and also an RME babyface & Cranbourne: getting multiple streams of audio in, out, and round trip (through hardware processors) is a critical thing for me and something I always assume is a nightmare on Linux given third party AD/DA converters are part of that.

Beyond that functional MIDI I/O to drive controllers and hardware synths.

Show threadgahlord
@mntmn I could also imagine completely blowing up my audio process and focusing on SoX, SuperCollider (I am in the monome/norns hardware world), and something node-based and treating everything like a 50s electronic music studio environment.
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Show threadRegdar and the Fighters14h ago
@gahlord @mntmn I do a lot with SoX and supercollider on a cli daw.
There is a ton of learning curve and some tools are just fundamentally user-unfriendly (even if providing numeric arguments to a function does make sense to you, compand is still harder to dial in than any other compressor or gate ive seen)
But it is fun and let's you get some very interesting results
Show threadgahlord9h ago

@vomithatsteve @mntmn that is useful to hear. Definitely if I end up going that route I would be intentionally seeking to set aside my mostly “tape” metaphor of recording and replace it with something completely foreign or available only in digital lands like node-based or code-process etc. It would be a wholesale changing out of learned practice for something new. Like the difference between playing bass guitar and making patches on the modular.

That said I am very curious about a CLI DAW!

Show threadRegdar and the Fighters9h ago

@gahlord @mntmn ultimately, I use GUI reaper as my main daw, but the CLI tools are mostly a procedural instrument

The modular comparison is pretty apt

Show threadgahlord8h ago
@vomithatsteve @mntmn Sweet, I have tried Reaper and I could definitely get by with it as a DAW. Didn’t realise it has CLI too, I think that could be fun to learn.
Show threadRegdar and the Fighters7h ago
@gahlord @mntmn oh, sorry I didn't mean reaper cli (I don't know what it has in that regard). I means sox and supercollider
Show threadgahlord6h ago
@vomithatsteve @mntmn ah, right on thanks