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Post by skitliv on Oct 27, 2017 11:32:21 GMT -5
Hi, I'm glad to see that here's a wonderful community about one of my favourite musical genres!
However, I would like to ask you which free software I can use to musically rend my partiture with a dungeon synth vibe. Thank you in advance for your answers!
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Post by thekeeper on Oct 27, 2017 12:07:31 GMT -5
If you're not speaking colorfully, not actually importing proper sheet music into a program to set instruments, I would say LMMS might be your best bet for a totally free DAW to write with, and its pretty easy to get the hang of. I've only used it a couple times, but its fully featured. Most others probably prefer Ableton or FL Studio, though these are paid (but most probably didn't pay).
Actually rendering sheet music might best be done in a tablature program and then exported as MIDI and loaded into a DAW for wider breadth of instrument choices, though I'm unsure of your file type exporting options if you're writing sheet music digitally.
If you're using hardware or anything, most would go with Audacity to record.
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Post by DieuxDesCimetieres on Oct 30, 2017 3:43:13 GMT -5
LMMS is a good DAW for the price. As thekeeper says above, it's fully featured, but to me it seems like it's kinda outdated in the UI side. Which for me is a good thing, the previous DAW is used war FruityLoops3, so I felt right at home with LMMS! And since it - like just about any DAW out there today - features VST's, you have an incredible range of sounds at your disposal. There are many great free or cheap VST's out there.
The only thing where LMMS totally falls short is, if you want to mix tracks recorded live (instruments, vocals) with midi tracks. LMMS in itself doesn't support that in any way.
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Post by stormcrow on Oct 30, 2017 7:22:38 GMT -5
Acoustica Mixcraft for me is a very good compromise, it reminds of Apple's GarageBand. It's not free, but very cheap if compared to other famous DAWs.
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Post by garvalf on Nov 4, 2017 7:33:32 GMT -5
you can load samples in LMMS but it's true it's not possible to play midi tracks and record live audio on top of it, it's a pity. LMMS is very good, but there are some strange limitations, for example you can select several parts, but you can't delete them all or cut them all, only one part by one. I'm using LMMS and liking it very much, but for my next project I might use Ardour instead. It's free software, free on linux and a very small fee on Windows (I think you can get it for $5). Ardour is a full featured DAW, but more complicated to use. For creating free partitions, MuseScore is great: musescore.org/You can then export them to midi and import in LMMS. |
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Post by DieuxDesCimetieres on Nov 4, 2017 10:10:48 GMT -5
Yes, LMMS has its oddities, but I suppose a lot of them are explained by the fact that its entirely non-profit and a "fan effort", if you will, and as such I reckon they prioritize other stuff than UI niceties. But a new version has already reached the release candidate stage, so might be that stuff like that will be present in the next version.
Anyhow, all of DDC's music is made with LMMS, except for the (rarely used) vocals, for which I use an ancient version of Adobe Audition. Despite the bugs and shortcomings of LMMS, I think it is indeed a very good tool. Maybe not the most beginner friendly, though, because of a slightly outdated UI.
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Post by garvalf on Nov 5, 2017 18:12:04 GMT -5
I'm using the release candidate. Some limitations are already fixed, hopefully! Yet you still can't select a few parts and delete them. Strange.
The new appearance in LMMS 1.3 looks much better than the previous one.
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Post by thekeeper on Nov 5, 2017 20:24:07 GMT -5
I should pick up LMMS again. I used it for one release somewhat sloppily and haven't really played around with it since then. I've been using FL Studio for over a decade now, but when I used LMMS, it was pretty intuitive and I think some things were likely styled after FL Studio so people were more comfortable with the layout and functions (and it's a good draw for people pirating FL Studio, replacing it with a full free DAW they can actually update without having to torrent the next version if they want to keep up). I remember trying out Ardour years ago and I had no idea what I was doing. LMMS is more intuitive for me, but I've heard Ardour can be a powerhouse.
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Post by olofdigre on Nov 8, 2017 15:17:54 GMT -5
While at work where I do not have any possibility to download programs to my computer I use a online sequencer found here: onlinesequencer.netIt is nice and not very powerful. It can be used to draw up ideas or to even make tracks that can be saved online so that I can use them when back home like this: onlinesequencer.net/649678 Not very useful at first glance but when all else fails it is rather handy. |
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Post by crypticdungeon on Nov 8, 2017 15:53:52 GMT -5
I've been using FL studio for the entirety of my (available) DS ''career'' but I have used LMMS before, and must say I was quite impressed with what it can do for a free program! Though I would recommend just getting FL studio, or risk pirating it if you'd dare to do that.
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