[LAU] Synths and sequencers for house/pop music?

James Stone jamesmstone at gmail.com
Fri May 13 12:32:16 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:26 PM, James Stone <jamesmstone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Jeremy Jongepier
> <jeremy at autostatic.com> wrote:
>> On 05/12/2011 10:48 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
>>> My 10-year-old daughter has started to express some interest in music.
>>>
>>> Somewhat predictably (and perhaps unfortunately too) she is into pop-star house stuff: Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Taio Cruz, Katy Perry, things of that nature. I know nothing of that style of music-- other then occasionally hearing it at the gym-- and I've no idea what tools are used to get those sounds.
>>>
>>> She's got a rather ancient Debian ThinkPad  of her own, with a working sound card. And I've got her set up with the basics, including the zita-at1 autotuner which so far to my ears seems to be the the number 1 most important ingredient in this style of music.
>>
>> Hello Ken,
>>
>> True :) If you've ever heard Katy Perry sing live without it you'll
>> understand why ;)
>>
>>>
>>> Are there any synths on Linux which I could set up for her which are good for getting those kinds of house/techno/pop sounds?
>>>
>>
>
> For an all-in-one option, Neil is pretty ideal I would say (recording
> vocals could be tricky but still do-able using the record machine
> plugin).
>

Sorry - forgot the link to Neil - http://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/

Also I forgot to mention it has masses of synths built-in (unlike renoise).

James


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