[LAU] Renoise

[Grammostola Rosea]

Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote:
> 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!
>
Ok, thanks for the reactions... I'll check it out and see if the way of 
working 'tracking' is something for me...