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So I just switched from windoze (using it since 95) to ubuntu, and I think I'm gonna stick with it. Still got all my samples and music, now are there any production programs out there that work with UB? Still got a license for FL studio, but I think i've been getting a little tired of that. Thanks. Btw, dont have any midi gear.

Renoise is the only DAW that comes to mind.

Why have I never heard of that?

because it makes music sideways

because it's quite intimidating at first glance for these younger kids who never worked in a tracker before and are spoiled with how far sequencers have come in such a short time

hey I have windows on my machine just for ableton live... otherwise I use linux for everything else.

There is Rosegarden for KDE and I've heard Ardour is quite good. I use Audacity for dumping my stuff to mp3. I beleive there are quite a few VSTs around too.

List of linux audio software:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Li ... o_software

but yeah, I'm a full on linux fan, but i still use win for music

Ubuntu is linux for noobs. Get a real, manly distro.

knoppix son

Brisance wrote:Ubuntu is linux for noobs. Get a real, manly distro.

I thought people stopped distro bashing like in 2001

Brisance wrote:Ubuntu is linux for noobs. Get a real, manly distro.

Lol, linux and manly in the same paragraph...so very....very wrong.

paravrais wrote:

Brisance wrote:Ubuntu is linux for noobs. Get a real, manly distro.

Lol, linux and manly in the same paragraph...so very....very wrong.

10 times more masculine than macs.

Brisance wrote:

paravrais wrote:

Brisance wrote:Ubuntu is linux for noobs. Get a real, manly distro.

Lol, linux and manly in the same paragraph...so very....very wrong.

10 times more masculine than macs.

But doesn't 10 x 0 = 0?


Might be putting windoze on a seperate partition and just using FLS or something on that one

To make music on linux you will want to have jack installed. It's like rewire on chems: you can route midi and audio from any music program into any music program. (sudo apt-get intall jack-ctl)

On the freeware side of things there's Ardour (which like protools, doesn't do midi yet, but great for recording stuff and mastering), LMMS (a rather advance FL clone, you'll feel right at home here) and rosegarden (which is more focussed on scoring, but works fine for other stuff as well).

If you don't mind spending a little bit (like 50 usd) you can also get renoise. It's very full featured, but has a tracker interface. It takes some time to make sense, but IMO it rocks to do beats. If you have ardour installed you can jack the output of renoise into ardour and circumvent the demo limitation (it's fully functional except for rendering).
Another cool app is energyXT2. As an FL guy it'll make sense very fast. Has good fx, synth and sampler build in, and really try the drumtracks.

A last option is to use wine, which is a re-implementation of the windows api's (meaning there's no performce loss). Reaper and Podium both run very well under wine. It has the added benefit that you can use most windows vsts this way.

Hope this helps

I'm an ubuntu user too. I have ableton live on my windows, but I hear you can get it running pretty flawlessly on linux with wine (=summer project).

I was using ubuntustudio for a while, but i couldnt get some of the Native Instruments VST's to work. Hence the change to windows and ableton.

I am considering a look at Renoise but i am getting hooked on Ableton. This is a good option. Don't think i could hand not having Massive tho.

Ableton on linux would rock!

Renoise is awesome software. Very cheap... I've heard some massive tunes produced in it...

rxcoup wrote: Don't think i could hand not having Massive tho.

Ableton + Max/MSP!!!!???

I'm on Ubuntu 9.04, been using it since 6.10. The realtime kernel has been sketchy on my hardware since 8.10, but 8.04 and the unaffiliated de facto standard music-oriented distro based on it (64Studio) are quite solid. That being said, I'm currently having good results with 9.04 with the normal low-latency (not realtime) kernel, IF I kill the pulse-audio process, which tends to wreak havoc with both JACK and Wine sound.

Apps I'm using for music work on Ubuntu:
- Hydrogen (Drum machine and sequencer with LADSPA plugin support for effects, very polished, active development)
- Audacity (Editing and recording)
- Ardour (Recording and sequencing, general project control)
- Jack-control (rewire-type controller)
- FL Studio 7 (in Wine, just tried it out and working well enough so far but required some ugly hacks to get going)

A lot of people recommend LMMS, Rezound, and Rosegarden as well, you might find those useful.

For me, the main advantage of producing in Linux is the side effects of flexibility and power of the environment like batch processing of raw data, command line tools and safe browsing, not necessarily the music-specific tools, which are basically sufficient but not nearly as polished and full-featured as their commercial Win/Mac equivalents. If these factors are important to you too then Linux may make sense, and it sounds like there are enough Linux users here to offer music-specific assistance if you have questions or problems that arise.

I run ubuntu for fun at home and use it to manage our work file/intranet, but I've never tried to produce on it. Frankly, I don't see how it could ever match up to any of the other daw's out there.

rxcoup wrote:Ableton on linux would rock!

http://appdb.winehq.org/appimage.php?iId=19008


I'm looking at getting this right now

(woah weird the img tag doesnt work...)