[Liverpool] Linux Multimedia Studio

[Jérôme Fuselier]

I'm still a novice in music generation so this goes far beyond my small 
knowledge in this field. But this is definitely worthwhile information. 
I will give rebirth a try this evening to see if I can understand how it 
works.

thx

oscillik wrote:
> Reason is VERY good (i've been using it extensively ever since v1) 
> however it's not that easy to get TB-303 like sounds out of it. Since 
> Jerome mentioned that he was looking for something similar to the 
> MC-303, ReBirth would have the sonic and sequential capability. As 
> someone who used to own a TB-303 I can attest that the sound of a 
> TB-303 comes from two main sections: The sound generation section 
> (VCO, VCF, Envelope and Accent) and the Sequencer. It's a 50/50 
> split...the TB-303 trademark bouncy "wow" sound comes from the 
> sequencer as it has slide functions. Then for the typical acid lines, 
> that's where the sound generation makes it's mark. The TB-303 has an 
> unusual -18 dB filter and very unusual envelope and accent 
> characteristics.
>
> Anyway, that's a bit off topic!
>
> The good thing is that you can link ReBirth and Reason together, so 
> you can get the best of both worlds :)
>
> 2009/6/22 Dan Lynch <biglynchy at gmail.com <mailto:biglynchy at gmail.com>>
>
>     Rebirth is cool but I haven't used it in years since Reason came
>     out. It does all the Rebirth stuff and so much more. Maybe Rebirth
>     is better if you have specific needs though. You might not need
>     all the other stuff Reason does. As for audio in WINE, I believe
>     it's pretty good. It just links to ALSA. I've never tried it with
>     JACK but that would be the best option if available, so you can
>     make music with other programs at the same time. Lots of people
>     run VST plugins with WINE and it uses this method. I believe it's
>     quite good.
>
>     On a slightly related note. I've just been playing with Spotify
>     the last week in WINE. That's an audio player and relies on the
>     audio interface a lot. It plays perfectly and sounds good.
>     Recording audio into WINE might be different with the latency but
>     playback is fine. I reckon it's worth trying. You'll only be using
>     playback with something like Rebirth anyway.
>
>     Good luck with it!
>
>     Dan
>
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, oscillik <oscillik at gmail.com
>     <mailto:oscillik at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         well I'm gonna give lmms a go when I get back home later, see
>         it my desktop can handle it ;)
>
>         ahh then ReBirth would be right up your street then. as far as
>         using in Linux, I would imagine WINE will work...but I dunno
>         how well WINE handles audio stuff.
>
>         The sequncing method in ReBirth may take some getting used to
>         though!
>
>>         On Jun 22, 2009 2:26 PM, "Jérôme Fuselier"
>>         <jerome.fuselier at free.fr <mailto:jerome.fuselier at free.fr>> wrote:
>>
>>         The sound was much better on my computer when I tried it
>>         "live". This is probably due to their screencast (or to my
>>         bad ears :) ).
>>
>>         Do you manage to use Rebirth under linux ? I don't know
>>         TB-303, TR-808 and TR-909 but I played a bit a long time ago
>>         with a MC-303 and this is the kind of sound I'm looking for.
>>
>>         oscillik wrote: > > Actually, I just watched the demo video
>>         of the application....either it looks...
>>
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