On 05/06/16 12:09, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote: I have the same experience with seq24, well no, not stability issues, but last time I fired it up I couldn't get it to work at all, but it could have been just me ; still, no song that day :/ it's a shame because I like mostly everything about seq24, starting with it's interface and block workflow. Have you tried harmonySeq <https://harmonyseq.wordpress.com/>? It's quite wonderful, and really refreshing, I tried it out, and even made a (french) tutorial for it <http://linuxfr.org/users/philippemc/journaux/betatest-reveille-le-cyberponk>, just after reading a very enthusiastic (borderline lyrical) article from Louigi Verona <http://www.louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=writings&t=linux&a=linux_harmonyseq> about it. I made a quick song (well, no, just a short piece of music, but I'd like to use it as a pure composition tool to make SONGS, like R&D verses, hooks and bridge with its key changing functions) right away in it (using only Qsynth with the Debian fluid-soundfont) and the sky was really the limit, it responds quickly, is very light and one-task-one-tool compliant, and did not crash on me once. Definitely try it if you didn't. yPhil (https://youtu.be/mqDtZPPivZE!) -- Yassin "xaccrocheur" Philip http://manyrecords.com http://bitbucket.org/xaccrocheur / https://github.com/xaccrocheur

On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 14:09:38 +0200 "Jostein Chr. Andersen" &lt;jostein(a)vivaldi.net&gt; wrote: IMHO, it is worth a look at Bitwig's scenes and clips. See image below. Over the years I have used Muse and Seq24, then went to recording only for some time. Bitwig's scenes is very much transparent. It does not get in the way when laying out ideas. It uses copy/paste/move as easily as the same operations for text. Scenes can be added as needed. A scene can be activated as well as individual cells. Both can be told what to do after playing once. And it interfaces with those Launchpads, if one needs that. This said, what's good with this approach is that it is possible to easily mix anything. For instance, on the illustration, it would be possible to quickly move scenes 2 to 11 one line below (even though it shows the mixing controls, it can be expanded), copy scene 1, put in the now empty second line, remove the 'chop suei' cell and record a brand new cell with the same MIDI instrument. The contents of every cell can be edited. Modular and easiness of use. Each little bit of idea is represented by a cell, that can be very short, or 100 bars long. http://createdigitalmusic.com/app/uploads/2012/01/mixer-clip-launcher.png When a sequence is decided upon, then it can be recorded in a DAW or in Bitwig itself. The scenes and cells could either be played live or being told what to do next, and recorded as they are played.

On 05/06/2016 14:09, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote: For me it's Rosegarden possibly connected to a GM soundfont depending on what I want to do. I do have a cupole of "helper scripts" here and there (e.g. one which will launche Fluidsynth with a GM soundfont, autoconnect to jack, anotherone which launche yoshim with alsa and jack autoconnect). I could go into details of the many (sometimes small) features which for me make Rosegarden the preferred tool for even jotting down musical ideas etc. but I'm not sure it would be of general interest in this topic :) BTW I'm working on a rather large project where I need to produce quickly a lot of musical ideas and Rosegarden is the main sequencing/compositional tool. Lorenzo.