Well, this is where my Linux love goes sour I'm afraid...<div><br></div><div>I've been messing around with music stuff for around about 10 years now, and I've unfortunately been spoiled by an education where I was lucky enough to use Macintosh systems.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The last time I tried using Linux to make music was a good few years ago (maybe 4 or 5) and I was so frustrated by the whole thing that I vowed never to try again. In fact I would rather use Windows than Linux for doing music on...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Having said that, I was completely unaware of lmms until you mentioned it. It looks like a cross between Fruity Loops (which I must say, I personally regard as a toy comapared to a Cubase/Logic/Reason combo) and Garageband (which is most definitely a toy!). But for the purpose of creating loops and such it looks reasonable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Think I might have to give this a go, see if i can get it running in Crunchbang Linux.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have no problem using a proprietary product that is now free, Propellerheads ReBirth has been a free download for many years now, and that is a pattern based sequencer with software emulations of the venerable TB-303, TR-808 and TR-909. But i dunno if those instruments would cater to the kind of music you're looking for.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I myself am starting work on a soundtrack for an independent computer game, so I'll be looking to experiment!</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/22 Jérôme Fuselier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerome.fuselier@gmail.com">jerome.fuselier@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<br>
It seems that there's a large community of skilled people in music in<br>
this lug so I try to benefit from your experience. I've just found lmms<br>
(<a href="http://lmms.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://lmms.sourceforge.net/</a>) when I was looking for a software similar<br>
to fruity loops for linux. I want to use it to create some simple<br>
background music for a videogame I've started to work on. It's seems to<br>
fulfill my goal but the learning curve seems quite steep. Do you have<br>
any opinion on this software ? or maybe another similar software that<br>
you would recommend ? Or just some nice tutorial on how to start<br>
creating nice and simple music loops?<br>
<br>
Thanks for your help<br>
Jerome<br>
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