ShintarouMusic wrote:
We need more chipmusic like this.
Agreed
2 May 31, 2014 5:47 pm
Re: THE REAL DEAL COMPO out now!! (58 replies, posted in Collaborations)
I'll do Track 1, "Cell". This is gonna be fun
3 May 28, 2014 4:16 am
Re: Linux software (82 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
I just tend to see LMMS get trashed on music production websites, although the recent 1.0 release is quite good
4 May 27, 2014 8:57 pm
Re: Linux software (82 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
I produce entirely in various Linux distros at this point and there is quite a bit of great software.
My all time favorite is Sunvox, which should work on any linux based os. It's incredibly powerful, combining traditional tracker sampling methods and internal synthesis.
Milkytracker is in the Ubuntu repos and runs fine (although the midi input support can be a little weird)
Schism tracker is also in the repos, although I haven't spent much time with it.
LMMS has a number of chip plugins and could be used, provided you don't mind the stigma that comes with it
OpenMPT runs flawlessly in wine, including windows VST plugin hosting
Famitracker also runs flawlessly in Wine
Ardour is excellent for recording from external sources (kinda useless for MIDI composition though)
Hydrogen is absolutely amazing for drum stuff, although I'm not sure if anyone's attempted chip style drums in it
I've never even tried to run it, but there's a linux version of Adlib Tracker
of course, there's always DOSBox, which enables you to run all the originals: Fastracker II, Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker etc.
So yeah, definitely a lot of options for linux production, and it only continues to grow.