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Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by tony » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 10:32 PM UTC

I witnessed a supposed open source music app "in the wild" on YT recently:

Context: Someone was using fiverr to get people to play a tune on bass guitar. The supposed "pro" player was hooked directly into Ubuntu (it looks like Unity)

Anyone know what app in the background?

Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by rzzzt » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 10:38 PM UTC

tony wrote: post #21

I witnessed a supposed open source music app "in the wild" on YT recently: https://youtu.be/U6Og9wtO9jE?t=640 Context: Someone was using fiverr to get people to play a tune on bass guitar. The supposed "pro" player was hooked directly into Ubuntu (it looks like Unity) Anyone know what app in the background?

The application icon is Ardour's.

Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by narag » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 10:41 PM UTC

ryan_midi wrote: post #8

Hello! I'm the author of this page. I realize that a few tools might be missing. Happy to hear all suggestions. In the meantime, if you want this list in Google sheet, you can make a copy of this one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YfVyZHy83WHIiZmQJwHh...

Thank you for the list. There something that bothers me a little. LMMS seems very much like commercial DAWs, but Muse was more of a notation+sequencer program. I remember Rosegarden much like that, but it was too long ago. The rest no idea, but it would be useful a brief commentary adding some additional info to the DAW and sequencer categories, since they seem very broad.

Of course, if someone can share opinions here, it would also be nice.

Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by deusofnull » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 10:47 PM UTC

myself248 wrote: post #15

VCV Rack, anyone? https://vcvrack.com/

VCV Rack is a titan in the FOSS eurorack modular world. nothing else comes close. I have a physical eurorack as well but i use Rack all the time to sketch out ideas and to explore new kinds of modules before i buy something physical.

Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by racl101 » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 10:56 PM UTC

Here's a chance for a content maker to make a YouTube channel to show people how to use these tools.

I know that a lot of people's apprehension with these kinds of open source tools is they're afraid of investing their time into a tool that might not be widely supported because if they get stuck there will be little to no support in figuring out the software. And also, if the project is not popular enough then it won't get updated enough and, thus, remain not competitive with commercial software.

Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by ttctciyf » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:08 PM UTC

duncanawoods wrote: post #18

myself248 wrote: post #15

VCV Rack, anyone? https://vcvrack.com/

Sadly running it as a DAW won't be open source.

Though running the FOSS version on linux allows to route audio back and forth between Rack and external recorders, hosts, plugins, etc with ease via JACK.

Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by acomjean » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:13 PM UTC

spookybones wrote: post #3

This is great. Does anyone have an equivalent list for design and illustration software?

there was a website that was tracking that stuff. Not sure how often its updated, but:

https://alternativeto.net

So punching in illustrator:

https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-illustrator/

Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by ttctciyf » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:15 PM UTC

ryan_midi wrote: post #8

Hello! I'm the author of this page. I realize that a few tools might be missing. Happy to hear all suggestions. In the meantime, if you want this list in Google sheet, you can make a copy of this one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YfVyZHy83WHIiZmQJwHh...

It's a good list!

If you haven't visited already, maybe you could take a look at https://github.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio

Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by ttctciyf » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:20 PM UTC

racl101 wrote: post #25

Here's a chance for a content maker to make a YouTube channel to show people how to use these tools. I know that a lot of people's apprehension with these kinds of open source tools is they're afraid of investing their time into a tool that might not be widely supported because if they get stuck there will be little to no support in figuring out the software. And also, if the project is not popular enough then it won…

There are a couple of yt channels out there, for example https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYKj_peyESIMDp5LtHlH2A

But nothing like you might expect compared to FOSS creative software in other fields, like Blender or Gimp.

Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools

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Post by grawprog » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:45 PM UTC

racl101 wrote: post #25

Here's a chance for a content maker to make a YouTube channel to show people how to use these tools. I know that a lot of people's apprehension with these kinds of open source tools is they're afraid of investing their time into a tool that might not be widely supported because if they get stuck there will be little to no support in figuring out the software. And also, if the project is not popular enough then it won…

I've never thought of making a youtube channel about it but I have started and stopped a few articles in a series I was planning on creating a song from start to finish with open source tools. I've just never really had the time, or to be honest motivation to sit down and work on it.