Open Source

Ok. We already know that Gimp sucks. So today I checked LMMS - an Open Source Fruity Loops clone. It doesn't even support sf2 soundfonts and crashes when you clear all instruments.

Even the ancient Modplug Tracker supported sf2 fonts, but not the open source crap. That is what you get with communism.

As a solution, Linux engineers propose using a collection of raw WAV files, instead of a proper soundfont:
https://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5070

Try the Audio File Processor.
If any of your instrument samples are wav. or ogg. you'll be able to open it, in Audio File Processor. :)
you create a whole sample pack of correct lenght-to-pitch samples, with audacity.

Amazing?!

Linux is useful for servers, not for desktop usage. It's like saying a semitruck is a bad vehicle because it's not the best car for personal commutes. You don't get it.

This website you're looking at right now uses Linux. Hell, most websites run Linux on their serves.

Lots of open source stuff is good, but there's less money and inertia in the consumer commercial space and more stuff in enterprise and server shit.

>>3

This website you're looking at right now uses Linux. Hell, most websites run Linux on their serves.

It would run as well on OSX or SunOS.

>>4
they don't have the updates or security audits that Linux (and Apache/Node/Django/etc) get

if a piece of software does anything on a network, such as a web server program (like the ones I listed), it needs lots of eyes to look at the code to find and fix security issues, and it also needs some sort of ticketing/pull request system and a public git repo or bugzilla thing

the only relatively secure online software is the most popular

some OS or web server program that not many people use is bound to have shitty security and/or lack very important features

>>5

the only relatively secure online software is the most popular



some OS or web server program that not many people use is bound to have shitty security and/or lack very important features

Gee, somebuddy on /prog/ who actually knows his stuff!

make your're are game

I wish we had a unixy set of composition and synthesis tools. imagine an algorithmic composition program which outputs a text-based representation of the score that could then be piped into different instruments and effects. making music with makefiles

I wish we had a unixy set of composition and synthesis tools. Wouldn't it be great to have to load and parse the audio every time you want to make the most minor modification?

>>1
I'm pretty sure I used LMMS with sf2 soundfonts in the past. >>2 shows that the real WTF is not supporting sf2 on Mac.

>>8,9
You can probably make something with the following:
https://supercollider.github.io/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Macro_Language
http://lilypond.org/index.html

>>10
MML is definitely a good start. Supercollider has potential but might be too opinionated for pipelined usage. LilyPond is great but I don't see how it fits - it's more of a 'music typography' tool for making good-looking scores than a composition program. to see the difference. compare its features with actual composition software like Sieblius or Finale (both proprietary, unfortunately)


also compose my dubs

>>5

some OS or web server program that not many people use is bound to have shitty security and/or lack very important features

More people use Windows and OSX, than Linux.

Windows Server 2003 is still very good.

>>8
You can achieve that with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoX

>>13
you could potentially build instruments and effects on top of that, but it's not really a synthesis tool. it's an audio editing tool. it's like the difference between an animation program (e.g. OpenToonz) and an NLVE (e.g. Vegas)