Very sexy music creation software for Windows AND Linux!!!!!

[merihevonen]

For the first time I used Google to do something right and found this very mega cool music creation software which also has a native port for Linux (hooray!)..

Check it out @ http://www.energy-xt.com

I just ordered it through PayPal
*thefool, now you'll see that with Linux you CAN do great music *

[thefool]

I'll have a look. Meanwhile people can tell me if they like this bassdrum:

http://www.speedyshare.com/960291454.html

Done by me. Warning is that i didnt feel very musical that day hehe

[merihevonen]

@thefool: Use www.supload.com if you want to upload MP3's, because then everyone can hear your tune without downloading it

[traumatic]

Making music has never been (and will never be) a matter of the tools you use.

Having said that, using Linux in a professional environment is still not
possible as sadly almost every professional (even semi-pro) hardware
(audio interfaces, dsp-cards) comes with drivers for windows and mac only.

Anyway, it's good to see enthusiastic programmers keeping up the
development for linux, so have fun with your new software!

[merihevonen]

Making music has never been (and will never be) a matter of the tools you use.

Having said that, using Linux in a professional environment is still not
possible as sadly almost every professional (even semi-pro) hardware
(audio interfaces, dsp-cards) comes with drivers for windows and mac only.

Anyway, it's good to see enthusiastic programmers keeping up the
development for linux, so have fun with your new software!

I have a M-AUDIO Keystation 49e MIDI keyboard, and in Windows XP it needed drivers, but in Linux it worked "out-of-the-box"
Really, I'm not kidding. The ALSA project has done so much hard work to give support for external music gear (such as MIDI keyboards, FireWire recording devices, grooveboxes, etc..) that it certainly is a good idea to make Linux the next-gen music platform.


There are many sequencers and multitrack environments available for Linux, but most of them aren't powerful enough and don't have commercial support.. But energyXT's move to support Linux too will for sure pay attention to software synth developers to port their plugins to the native Linux VST format..

What are you now going to say?

[traumatic]

What are you now going to say?

I was talking about pro gear...
TC Powercore, U-Audio UAD-1, RME Fireface, Digidesign I/O, MOTU... none of
the vendors offer official drivers (which is kind of crucial for professional work)
for Linux so the chance of Linux becoming the "next-generation audio workstation
platform" is quite low.

I for one would love to see more support, drivers and software.
Though things have evolved quite nicely over the years, it's just not enough.

Well, no need to argue about it.

[yoxola]

Sexy?

I didn't see any babies or pr0n pictures on that site...

Ho can you say it's "sexy"?

[merihevonen]

I was talking about pro gear...
..SNIP...
the chance of Linux becoming the "next-generation audio workstation
platform" is quite low.
..SNIP...

Lol, I have never heard of that "pr0 gear" you are talking about
In every MusicTech Magazine that I have bought they have not reviewed any of those, so I wouldn't classify them as "pro gear".. Ok, many musicians might use them, but you have to have special gifts to make music, gear alone won't sequence your tunes

Read this if you are still saying that Linux won't be the next-gen music platform:

What do you think of Linux as a music/audio production platform?

I actually see Linux as the future of music production platforms, but at the moment I'm very comfortable with cross-platform development. I want energyXT users to be able to choose what works best for them, so supporting both Windows and Linux from version 2.0 and on is just great. Linux may not have a reputation for being a platform for music, but it works great for me and all new improvements and kernel patches that make their way into the mainline kernel is a bonus.

The energyXT founder Jorgen Aase was interviewed on Linux Rock Star.. read the whole interview here:
http://linuxrockstar.blogspot.com/2006_ ... chive.html

[yoxola]

Hey, please tell me, what's the SEXY part!

I've looked around around and still didn't find any

Any URLs to those sexy pics ?

[merihevonen]

Hey, please tell me, what's the SEXY part!

I've looked around around and still didn't find any

Any URLs to those sexy pics ?

If you need to see real p0rn videos go here: http://adfware.free.fr/gay/ascii-porn.html
NOTE! THE ABOVE LINK IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

[traumatic]

Lol, I have never heard of that "pr0 gear" you are talking about

Too ridiculous to respond on that one.

[...]but you have to have special gifts to make music, gear alone won't sequence your tunes

Exactly, never ever said anything different. See my first post in this thread:

Read this if you are still saying that Linux won't be the next-gen music platform: [...]

As long as none of the significant companies (Digidesign, Steinberg, Sony
and maybe Cakewalk (in the us)) support linux, it just won't happen.
What kind of role should "energyXT" play when no one uses it and - as
said before - professional hardware isn't supported?

Get it, 90% of the professional audio productions are being done using
Digidesign Protools (interface) and Logic Audio (software) running on MacOS.
It didn't change over the last... let's say 10 years and it won't change
too soon in the future but hey, I couldn't care less.

Making music has never been (and will never be) a matter of the tools you use.

It's kind of sad you didn't get any my points and think I wanted to say
something against you using linux for making music - which is NOT the case.

Let's not waste our time discussing the obvious and get back to what's
really important: Making music!

[merihevonen]

No no.. I did get the point.. I am just not a crazy musician like you might be

Well yeah.. Linux will always be the G33K OS
However, it seems like some smaller VSTi producers are starting to port their plugins to the native Linux VSTi format.. this could be a sign of a very slow (but quite true) evolving of Linux towards the music world..


I just don't understand one thing:
Mac OS X is UNIX based, right? Most of the applications written for Mac OS X utilize the UNIX part of it, right (ofcourse, if we exclude Aqua)? Then how hard would it be to port music applications like Cubase SX to Linux? Linux has Bash too and it works like Mac OS X (no C: or A: drives, but /dev/disk0 or /dev/hda stuff).. Is it just because of that very ugly Aqua interface?

I personally find Aqua very very ugly. It's hard to use because of too many "shiny objects" and shadows, and it isn't dark enough to pleasure my devilish passion
I don't understand people getting crazy of a cheap (as in feature-lacking) OS just because of an ugly (as in ugly) interface

[thefool]

Mehri: For your information, Traumatic IS a pro musician, and i have read and heard a LOT about what he talked about.

Now to the facts: how low can you go on the buffer size? I usually go down to 2 - 5 ms on windows running with some heavy VST's like nexus, sytrus & Vanguard. I keep it at 7 just in case i want 20 nexus'es to play in a row hehe

[traumatic]

However, it seems like some smaller VSTi producers are starting to port their plugins to the native Linux VSTi format.. this could be a sign of a very slow (but quite true) evolving of Linux towards the music world..

Indeed and I do respect that and am more than happy to see things evolve.
Changing "standards" however takes so much more than just having a
good product. If one shiny day important vendors should start supporting
Linux (which I personally doubt but that's just me), it's safe to assume that
a lot of producers will be more than happy to switch their OS. We'll see...

[traumatic]

thefool, don't consider me being a pro. Though I did professional productions,
got hired here and there and know the industry pretty well, I never managed
to fully make a living from it (and never will). Anyway, thanks for your support!