[LAU] Renoise

[Johannes Mario Ringheim]

Grammostola Rosea skreiv:
> There is no good free tracker for linux is it?

Do you mean free as in free beer or free speech? Renoise is free as in 
beer, apart from not having export of seperate channels in the free version.

> Are people using renoise here? What does it adds comparing to the apps 
> who are freely available on linux?

Renoise is the best sample-based tracker on the planet, regardless of 
platform. On the other hand there's Aldrin, which is modular and 
softsynth based. It's also good, some might say better than Renoise, but 
they're a bit hard to compare since the approaches are quite different.

Play around with them both and see what you like. For me I use both, but 
lately I've been mostly playing with Aldrin, since then I don't need to 
worry about samples that much.

> Can I just use instruments delivered by renoise (how good are they?) and 
> VST or can I also use jack apps like linuxsampler?

Of course you can. They're good, but limited in number and mainly 
focused on synthetic sound. I do not think they're meant to be used as a 
complete sample library. For more free sounds/samples you should check 
freesound.org. You can use linuxsampler with renoise through midi. 
Renoise supports jack fully (apart from transport), so you can 
interconnect it with any jack app.

Good luck with your tracking!

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