Music composer?

miggols99 · 2008-03-09 19:24:49

I have listened to some compositions made my ZREO which is basically Zelda music "reorchestrated". I think it's amazing. I wondering if there is any software for Linux that could do anything like that. I had a look at Rosegarden, but it didn't have many instruments...TuxGuitar has no instruments for some reason??...Does anyone have other suggestions?

Last edited by miggols99 (2008-03-09 19:25:20)

finferflu · 2008-03-09 19:33:50

You have to download them. They're called "soundfonts", check out the guide (hint: section 2.1.3.1.3)

schivmeister · 2008-03-10 04:54:17

What you're looking for is LMMS + VST Even without VST, it has plenty of interesting effects and samples. With VST, you'll go crazy. There are simply too many funny plugins out there.

bangkok_manouel · 2008-03-10 06:16:47

ok it's closed source and you have to pay for it BUT it's running on linux natively AND it kicks ass + you won't need that much VST's as most of the needs are covered already...
http://www.energy-xt.com/xt2.php

some Linux VST's here:
http://www.linux-vst.com/

miggols99 · 2008-03-10 20:43:10

schivmeister wrote:

What you're looking for is LMMS + VST Even without VST, it has plenty of interesting effects and samples. With VST, you'll go crazy. There are simply too many funny plugins out there.

How would I install VST? LMMS looks great

vogt · 2008-03-10 21:27:30

buzz, is closed source, free, has a vst loader, and runs quite well under wine. (it has tons of instruments)

csound is a bit complicated, but can do any synthesis you can imagine/type out.

schivmeister · 2008-03-11 05:00:35

energyXT2 is great..So is Renoise. And did I mention Reaper? But those are overkill if you just want to experiment..

Use this script if you want to use VST(i):

pkgname=lmms
pkgver=0.3.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The Linux MultiMedia Studio"
arch=(i686)
url="http://lmms.sourceforge.net/"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('qt' 'sdl_sound' 'wine' 'stk' 'festival' 'jack-audio-connection-kit' 'libsamplerate' 'ladspa')
source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)

build() {
  cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr \
              --with-qtdir=/opt/qt \
              --enable-hqsinc

  cd plugins/vst_base
  make -j1 || return 1
  cd ../../
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install
}
md5sums=('2485d283d11ab09ea27dd81c2e1bed4e')

If the speakerbot plugin is crashing the app then add --without-singerbot configure option and remove festival dependency. Random segmentation faults, add --disable-surround Any other question drop by ##lmms in IRC. Our dear Yohng from (OSS) 4Front provides us with free and good VSTs (well just a bass and a piano or two): http://www.yohng.com/

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mrunion · 2008-06-05 19:00:12

Can anyone compile stk from the AUR? /looks as if there might be an issue with it and gcc 4.3 maybe?

vogt · 2008-06-06 01:24:39

@mrunion could be, I used to use include stk opcodes in csound, but since I don't use those, I didn't look into the recent breakage of the build with stk enabled.

schivmeister · 2008-06-06 12:33:09

Oops, I haven't updated it yet, sorry. Totally forgot that stk is a C toolkit Thanks to berkus it was updated in the proaudio svn repo:

svn co http://proaudio.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stk stk

mrunion · 2008-06-06 12:55:38

Thanks! I'll give it a whirl.

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