[linux-audio-user] Re: "Music" made with Linux!

[Shayne O'Connor]

Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
>>From: tim hall <tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk>
>>
>>WADR Juhana, I think you're being silly.
>>
>>Every different synth has its great voices, unique tones and also its 
>>weaknesses, hardware or software.
> 
> 
> Many of you miss the point. I use bricks:
> 
> 1. Why the original poster and me would rather use well-known
> commercial synths than open source synths?
> 
> 2. Why demos of commercial synths do sound well better than
> anything I have heard made with open source synths?
> 
> Sure every commercial synth sounds different, but we need to
> have an open source synth at least in the same top class.
> 
>  -*-
> 
> I would rather try to solve the case (2) first as it helps to
> solve the case (1):
> 
> (A) Someone who makes great songs with commercial synths should
> replace the synth track with a track made with an open source synths.
> For the demo purposes only.
> 
> (B) Someone could create a MIDI file which plays great with
> commercial synths. The output should be recorded for us.
> Then we try to create the same with open source synths, possibly
> improving the software at the same time.
> 
> Who of you can do (A)?
> Who of you can do (B)?

i can see where yr coming from .... i've often thought of doing (A) with 
my songs. the problem isn't really that the open-source synths don't 
sound any good, but that they're a little obtuse in *how* to get good 
sounds ... unfortunately, inspiration don't usually hang around for a 
learning curve to apply :(

however, the only commercial synth i really use - that i *must* use, cos 
it just fuckin rocks - is B4 from Native Instruments. i'm sure i could 
probly get similar results from Aeolus, but man - i haven't even been 
able to get a sound from it yet.

as far as open-source synths go, you can't go past the spectacular 
ZynAddSubFX.

shayne