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Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by w56rjrtyu6ru » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 7:32 AM UTC

kristiandupont wrote: post #65

fractalf wrote: post #64

Ableton is great and paved the way for a more creative and intuitive workflow! I switched from Cubase very early on and never looked back. That is, until I found Bitwig ( https://www.bitwig.com ) which supports Linux! They also deserve a shout out taking it even further!

Bitwig looks really promising. But how is the VST landscape? Is it even supported? EDIT: sorry, my question was about whether Linux supports VST. I would assume that Bitwig did at v0.1 :-)

I don't remember how well it integrated with Bitwig - but a few years ago VST support on Linux using Wine, Jack and Carla (https://github.com/falkTX/Carla) was pretty solid.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by uxcolumbo » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 7:34 AM UTC

fractalf wrote: post #64

Ableton is great and paved the way for a more creative and intuitive workflow! I switched from Cubase very early on and never looked back. That is, until I found Bitwig ( https://www.bitwig.com ) which supports Linux! They also deserve a shout out taking it even further!

Can you give more details about why you switched to Bitwig?

I'm a beginner, so don't know much about Ableton or Bitwig.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by ptah » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 7:34 AM UTC

Heliosmaster wrote: post #69

Talking about synths, I can definitely recommend VCV Rack [0], an open-source virtual modular synth! What I mostly love is that through plugins you can find virtual versions of existing hardware modules! [0]: https://vcvrack.com/

so many toys, so little time. i played around with this for a bit but need to find time to get really stuck in

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by richrichardsson » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 7:44 AM UTC

readhn wrote: post #35

cubano wrote: post #3

Oh my...this is hardly "making music". Is paint-by-numbers making art? I sure don't think so, so neither is this. What would have been way way better is a brief introduction to music keys, major and minor, then basic chords, then progressions, then melody, with each section having a few examples of each so that the person going through the article could have some understanding of how music is really made, and how mus…

> Is paint-by-numbers making art? haha is this art? Do you really need to go to school for a decade /study art to be able to paint this? https://shorturl.at/krYZ4

Can someone please flag this bullshit spam reply please.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by cryptofits » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 7:55 AM UTC

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Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by JacKTrocinskI » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 7:57 AM UTC

Ableton is top notch but for me nothing beats coming up with melodies in FL Studio's "Piano Roll", a lot of fun times spent in that program.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by marapuru » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:01 AM UTC

Very cool and interesting website.

I recently bought a Maschine MK2 to get into the music making thing. It surprised me how easy to use it is.

My wife is a professional acoustic musician, and although she firstly was a bit hesitant with this 'instrument' she quickly turned around. And we started making music together.

It's perfect for me since it is very well arranged, the buttons make sense in my head.

I play a bit of guitar and always have trouble making sense of the notes in my head.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by bartproost » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:04 AM UTC

I love seeing how the big brands are picking up web audio. I refuse to work on anything else these days, and it's easier than I thought when I started. Built 5 web games using tone.js for Red Bull Mind Gamers last year and just launched a site that auto generates unlimited royalty free mp3s using web audio for a dollar[1]. [1] https://strikefreemusic.com

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by OskarS » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:08 AM UTC

kristiandupont wrote: post #65

fractalf wrote: post #64

Ableton is great and paved the way for a more creative and intuitive workflow! I switched from Cubase very early on and never looked back. That is, until I found Bitwig ( https://www.bitwig.com ) which supports Linux! They also deserve a shout out taking it even further!

Bitwig looks really promising. But how is the VST landscape? Is it even supported? EDIT: sorry, my question was about whether Linux supports VST. I would assume that Bitwig did at v0.1 :-)

As a person developing VSTs, BitWig is supports them THE BEST. BitWig handles VSTs better than almost any other host, including (optional, but you should do it!) sandboxing and proper HiDPI support.

You can absolutely make VSTs for Linux, but I imagine that very few people do.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by afroisalreadyin » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:21 AM UTC

It's really awesome Ableton is going in this direction. Live is a beast, but it's a quite intimidating beast if you don't have experience working with DAWs and music software in general. I worked there for three years, and couldn't bring myself to learn the basics. Tutorials like these will definitely make it easier to pick the basics and start off with Live with more confidence.