[LAU] renoise vs rosegarden

[schoappied]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 03:18:35 Norval Watson wrote:
> I have been using Renoise new Linux port for about a month. It's the first
> software I ever paid for, to get the full .wav exporting features etc. The
> Renoise community is very friendly and supportive. It runs fine on Linux,
> but it's still 32-bit so you can't run it with jack and vst instruments on
> 64-bit just yet. But the 64-bit port is just round the corner.
>
> Renoise is blindingly fast once you learn the keyboard shortcuts. You can
> run the whole shebang off the PC keyboard with very little mousing but I
> also use a Korg drum controller and a MIDI keyboard. It is very easy to map
> pan, vol and fx parameters to the faders and sliders on a MIDI keyboard.
>
> The sample editor and instrument editor are very good and you can get an
> infinite variety of sounds from the included set of basic sounds. So the
> lack of jack and VSTs in 64-bit is not such a problem for keen tweakers.
> Its very easy to add effects to tracks, sub-groups and the master and again
> the included effects are very good.
>
> I never used a tracker before Renoise and it does take a little while to
> adjust to the different way of composing.
>
> I also use Freewheeling, Ardour2, seq24 and Rosegarden (and others)
> depending on the project. But for quickly blocking in a musical idea it is
> hard to go past Renoise because you can compose multi-pattern, multi-track
> pieces almost as fast as you can think them up. And then take the piece to
> full production quality. And not just music - people are using it for
> soundtracks as well.
>
> But its not as fast as Freewheeling and for live improv Freewheeling is the
> king IMHO! But Renoise gives you more control over mixing, panning and
> effects etc. after the fact.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Norv
>
Ok, thanks for the explanations... And how does these programs compare to ones 
like cubase and FL studio?

Dirk