Miranda, I never did it, but it is possible to work with Ardour and Rosegarden, because of JACK. I just work with Ardour, so I have no idea about how RG works, but have you ever seen the Rosegarden`s tour at: http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tour/ ?
Take care --- Verdajn brakumojn el la plej verda loko de la tuta mondo, Sammondane, Ĥod 2010/12/20 Miranda Pennington <[email protected]> > I am wondering if some people could offer me advice on how to go about > recording/creating some pop music with vocals. My boyfriend and I used to > use Sony Acid for making our humor music, but I like using Ubuntu for all my > other computing needs, so I'd like to use it for making music too. > > Typically, what we would do is create a rhythm track and then he improvises > vocals and lyrics while I play the keyboards. After about ten minutes of > noodling around while recording, I take the vocals and midi data, chop it > up, organize it into a song, assign synth sounds to the midi data, process > the vocals, and record any additional instrumentation it needs to flesh it > out. > > I know that I want to use Hydrogen, auto talent, sound fonts, synths, and > effects plug ins, but I'm not sure what the best sequencer or DAW would be > to use to for recording or mixing, or how to go about pulling everything > together. Do I have to use Ladish with a sequencer and a DAW and route > everything together, or can I do most of this inside of one program? I'm > thinking qtractor looks like the easiest to get a handle on, but the lack of > envelope automation for fx, panning, and volume is sort of holding me back > from using it. I use those a lot and I don't know how I would get along > without them. I also need to be able to chop up the vocals and move the > parts around fairly quickly. Also, I need to be able to save sessions so I > can work on something here and there. I've seen that Ardour will be coming > out with midi support in the future, so should I just wait to use Linux for > what I want to do until it comes out? Would Muse be able to do what I want? > I read somewhere that envelope automation is available in muse, but I > haven't been able to find any info on how to use it. I'm guessing rosegarden > could do all of this, but it looks difficult to use. Maybe that's unfair > assumption though. I'm not sure. I don't mean to sound picky, but the > interface on rosegarden looks very difficult t navigate to my eyes. > > I've searched on the web for comprehensive tuts, but I'm not finding much > on my own. If anyone would be willing to blog a tut on how they put together > their music, I would be forever grateful. Even if your music is totally > different, just seeing how someone else goes about setting everything up to > make a song from start to finish would be really helpful for me and anyone > else who wants to get into Linux audio production and doesn't know where to > start. > > Also, if anyone has some advice on how to get the Linux Sampler up and > running with the piano library on Ubuntu, that would help me out. I know I > need the Linux sampler back end along with jsampler or fantasia, but I > haven't had any luck getting to it to work. I also play piano and do my own > singer songwriter stuff. I would like to be able to record piano as midi > data and use Linux Sampler for the piano sound. Since it's solo piano, it > has to sound decent. How do I record it along with vocals? > > Thanks for reading such a long question everyone. Your responses are > appreciated! > > Here are some examples of what I and my boyfriend do (that I would lie to > accomplish with Ubuntu) - > > The humor music - http://www.myspace.com/richydynamoandthefantastics > My more serious stuff - http://www.reverbnation.com/mirandapennington > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > >
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