[LAU] chord in trackers

[Tilo Kremer]

Hello,

On 04/17/2014 05:34 PM, rosea grammostola wrote:
> I love the idea of FLOSS software, especially for creative work like music.
> Most of the time I just do small pieces of music, to experiment and to test
> the software. One of my dreams is to compose music and I hope I'll be able
> to use Floss software then. I'm enthusiastic and idealistic about Floss
> software, Bitwig is nice, but I miss the idealistic feeling comparing to
> when I use NON :) Atm I try to focus on acoustic instruments, playing
> (double)bass in two bands now and I realize that I've still a lot to learn
> when it comes to music.

I dreamt that dream 20 years ago, and while the oss software
ecosystem has since vastly improved it still was not fitting the
bill for me. I started to use a commercial midi daw which was
included with a hardware mixer i bought, and soon after ditched most
software altogether in favour of real (DIY and off-the-shelf)
hardware. I still use pure data though.

Bitwig looks interesting and i might give it a shot again when i
won't have to code javascript to get my hardware connected.

> Reaper via Wine, is almost against my Floss & technical principles ... I
> still believe in Floss software, if the devs could care more about the
> finishing touch and fluent integration between tools which makes a product
> really useful. I probably should blame myself for not giving up hope
> already ;)

I wasn't so lucky getting emulated audio software to run well
enough, and meanwhile would advise to not wasting time blaming, just
use what works for you :)

> from workaround to workaround. But I don't give up hope yet! :)

the hope is still there, but being a diehard open source advocate
was not very helpful to get me going musically.

my 2cts,

Tee