[HN Gopher] Open-Source Music Production Tools
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Open-Source Music Production Tools
Author : puranjay
Score : 112 points
Date : 2020-07-21 17:57 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| mastazi wrote:
| I can't speak well enough of qTractor: it has a nice and
| intuitive UI, it does MIDI and Audio, it supports many different
| plugin formats, both instruments and effects (VST 2/3, LADSPA,
| DSSI, LV2), and it supports many forms of audio manipulation
| including time stretching and pitch shifting. If you're looking
| for an open source DAW in my opinion it's the way to go
| https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/
| tony wrote:
| I witnessed a supposed open source music app "in the wild" on YT
| recently:
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| https://youtu.be/U6Og9wtO9jE?t=640
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| Context: Someone was using fiverr to get people to play a tune on
| bass guitar. The supposed "pro" player was hooked directly into
| Ubuntu (it looks like Unity)
|
| Anyone know what app in the background?
| rzzzt wrote:
| The application icon is Ardour's.
| myself248 wrote:
| VCV Rack, anyone? https://vcvrack.com/
| deusofnull wrote:
| VCV Rack is a titan in the FOSS eurorack modular world. nothing
| else comes close. I have a physical eurorack as well but i use
| Rack all the time to sketch out ideas and to explore new kinds
| of modules before i buy something physical.
| duncanawoods wrote:
| Sadly running it as a DAW won't be open source.
| pmoriarty wrote:
| One of my favorites, not listed there, is qmidiarp.
|
| http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/
| rogerclark wrote:
| One thing missing from this list -- and pretty much any mention
| of open source music tools for some reason -- is OpenMPT: an
| open-source Windows-based tracker with full VST support. It runs
| great under WINE.
|
| It's a tracker, and not a sequencer-style DAW, but unlike every
| other open source DAW, it is battle-tested, non-beta non-alpha
| post-1.0 release software, and capable of producing commercial-
| quality music.
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| https://openmpt.org/
| ryanmcdonough wrote:
| Having followed the development of one back when I used to listen
| to LUGRadio: Jokosher hasn't been updated in over 10 years, yes
| it's free and open but doesn't seem like it's worth the hassle
| including in the list.
| ris wrote:
| Comprehensive? No PureData.
| ryan_midi wrote:
| Hi, author here. I aimed this list at non-technical people who
| wanted to make music for free. I avoided things like PureData
| and Sonic-Pi for this reason. Though if I'm honest, the
| learning curve for something like Sonic Pi isn't necessarily
| steeper than that for Ardour :)
| spookybones wrote:
| This is great. Does anyone have an equivalent list for design and
| illustration software?
| mastazi wrote:
| I don't have a link to a comprehensive list but my personal
| suggestions are:
|
| * GIMP for photo editing
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| * Krita for freehand drawing and for CMYK support
|
| * Inkscape for vector images
|
| * Scribus for desktop publishing (booklets, flyers etc)
|
| * Blender for 3D graphics (modelling/rigging/animation) [1]
|
| * Blender for 2D animation [1]
|
| * Blender for video editing [1]
|
| * Blender for compositing [1]
|
| [1] Basically Blender is expanding in fields that are outside
| of 3D graphics and I believe that over time it became the best
| alternative in those fields.
| keeblers_n_bits wrote:
| One of the reasons I haven't been able to fully commit to Linux
| on the desktop is that I haven't been able to find quality music
| production tools. I always end up going back to macOS because I
| miss Logic Pro X and Ableton Live too much. Also the audio
| routing in macOS is so much easier than any other operating
| system I've encountered. I would love to hear about music studios
| using FOSS.
| spankalee wrote:
| I'd love to see more synthesizers on the list, and more open-
| source synths in general. MIDI controllers and SBCs are plentiful
| and cheap enough that you can do some really amazing custom rigs,
| but the sound generations options aren't there yet.
| racl101 wrote:
| Here's a chance for a content maker to make a YouTube channel to
| show people how to use these tools.
|
| I know that a lot of people's apprehension with these kinds of
| open source tools is they're afraid of investing their time into
| a tool that might not be widely supported because if they get
| stuck there will be little to no support in figuring out the
| software. And also, if the project is not popular enough then it
| won't get updated enough and, thus, remain not competitive with
| commercial software.
| ryan_midi wrote:
| Hello! I'm the author of this page.
|
| I realize that a few tools might be missing. Happy to hear all
| suggestions.
|
| In the meantime, if you want this list in Google sheet, you can
| make a copy of this one:
|
| https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YfVyZHy83WHIiZmQJwHh...
| SeanLuke wrote:
| Some notes, hope this is useful.
|
| - Why are helm and dexed called "sequencers"? They're
| synthesizers. You're missing a massive collection of open
| source synthesizers, effects units, and so on. Indeed you don't
| even have this as a category, or some common ones are put under
| "sequencers".
|
| - You're also completely lacking open source patch editors,
| arduino and related MIDI tools, and so on.
|
| - And ... you have supercollider but not PD? Not csound? Etc.
| narag wrote:
| Thank you for the list. There something that bothers me a
| little. LMMS seems very much like commercial DAWs, but Muse was
| more of a notation+sequencer program. I remember Rosegarden
| much like that, but it was too long ago. The rest no idea, but
| it would be useful a brief commentary adding some additional
| info to the DAW and sequencer categories, since they seem very
| broad.
|
| Of course, if someone can share opinions here, it would also be
| nice.
| npteljes wrote:
| Hello Ryan! As long as we're talking open source, can I suggest
| you Onlyoffice instead of Goggle Sheets? Similar functionality,
| but with AGPL license, and the personal tier is free as in free
| beer too. Here's how you doc would look if shared similarly:
| https://onlyo.co/32FPJAZ
| RikNieu wrote:
| This is awesome, thanks!
|
| I wish I had time to play with stuff like this more
| o-__-o wrote:
| Phasex is money and not on this list.
| sah2ed wrote:
| It's missing AudioMass https://audiomass.co/
|
| AudioMass was well received in a recent feature on HN.
|
| [0] Previous discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23337091
| rzzzt wrote:
| Schism Tracker is an SDL-based reimagination of Impulse Tracker
| [1]. Jeffrey Lim also made the sources of the original project
| available [2].
|
| [1] https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker
|
| [2] https://bitbucket.org/jthlim/impulsetracker
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