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Jazz is also a MIDI sequencer. Naming issues?

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Wow. Slashdot really sucks. If the lameness filter actually prevented ascii art, they might have an excuse.

I'm not sure whether it counts as having "some awful customised interface" or not, but I've used the (now) open-source Jazz++ sequencer (http://www.jazzware.com/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/jazzware /) with some success...

yeah, once there is a pro quality audio sequencer with decent support for good virtual instruments...

as much as I like Linux on the desktop, saying 'music production on Linux really will rock' is kind of misleading... There just aren't the apps there.

sure, there's a decent multichannel hard disk recorder, and there's a bunch of interesting software packages you can run, but the sequencers tend to suck badly.

(correcting me by providing links to good sequencers would make me happy.... :)

If only we could get some high quality instruments...

I can't see Jazz listed...

There's going to be a lot of work to catch up with software such as Cubase SX or Reaktor...

Especially I saw no standard for plug-ins, like VST, for example (which already is multiplatform so could probably be ported to Linux, after all it's just API specs). I didn't see any software that gives audio and midi multitrack integration either.

Another huge problem is going to be the drivers for the many professional audio cards (none of them has drivers for Linux, as far as I know)

Seeing that these days the only I time I am rebooting into Windows is to run Cubase and various other music apps this is good news. I have been desperately trying to bring my music production over to Linux, in fact I'm picking up my copy of "The Csound Book" today. Over the years I have tried, with varying degrees of success, to run many of the freely available sequencers (Jazz), software synths, etc. Although I have never been a huge fan of ReBirth I have a friend who uses it and sends me ReBirth files once in a while. It will be interesting to see how they function in ReBorn.

So far there are only pure MIDI sequencers or 100% recording applications

Several of the "pure MIDI sequencers" actually have some level of audio support: MusE, Jazz++, Rosegarden-4 and Brahms at least do. It's all pretty damn basic at the moment, but there are a few interesting initiatives like JACK (an audio connection toolkit, used by things like Ardour -- we've just got the basics of support for it into Rosegarden) that might help to perk things up in the near future. I think once a few applications get able to talk to one another, we'll have far more interesting prospects.

Caveat: I don't actually understand any of this stuff, I'm a notation guy.

What about Jazzware's Jazz++ midi sequencer / audio editor? (http://www.jazzware.com) I used it, and (once you get past the interface...RTFM and you get it) it worked great. It does midi sequencing and audio editing (like what CuBase does), and it is under the GPL (it used to be proprietary IIRC).

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To find more MIDIs on the net, you could try Midifarm or Cowdance.

But look at the difficulty in making MIDI's (or NES music, or .ST3 .IT .MOD etc).

All you need is a background in music, software (Modplug Tracker for MOD/XM/S3M/IT, the NT2 tools for NES music (email Memblers at the NESdev site to obtain them), or Jazzware for MIDI), and a sound card, and you can cover any song.

although there's a 99% chance the RIAA made them just as illegal

Pretty close. Re-performance rights in a musical work, live or in studio, are managed by composers' and publishers' organizations such as ASCAP, SESAC, BMI, and Harry Fox Agency.

To sum up my point is that no politician could justify a tax if their was no sample coding. It would be like imposing a guitar tax, since you're probably going to play songs you didn't write.

And ASCAP/SESAC/BMI will probably go after that next.

SLab is an excellent multitrack recorder/mixer. It is not up to snuff with ProTools yet (though no program is on any platform).

Other Linux audio related links include (sorry if some links are bad, I haven't updated this list in awhile):

Multitrack audio recording/mixing:
Ardour
Slab
Snd

Midi Sequencing:
Jazz++
Rosegarden
Brahms (I THINK this is a sequencer)

Sound editing / effects processing:
MixViews
ecasound

Audio creation (synth emulators):
Ultramaster RS-101 and Juno6 CSound
Cecilia (requires Csound)

Notation:
Lilypond
Rosegarden
Mup

Awesome pages with links to everything you wanted to know about Linux audio:
Applications for Open Sound System
Sound and MIDI software for Linux

You too can make decent-sounding music...with the Jazz++ MIDI sequencer and the TiMidity MIDI renderer/player. Here's a techno piece I've done.

There is in fact no less than two promising (in my opinion) systems for cubase-like midi-editing for linux.

Jazz - a non-open source, non-free project with most of the functionality I look for (I have only worked with cubase earlier) and even some nice sampler-like qualities (editing and playing samples in various ways)

kooBase(Brahms) - an open-source, free cubase-like sequencer that has reached some maturity (0.97). I haven't tried the latest versions, but it looked promising (and I am willing to forgive a lot if the software is os).

For notation I use Rosegarden, then to listen there is timidity, kmidi, kmid, and I am sure are more. There is plugger as a plugin for midi and several other resources. So far I have not seen anything as grand as cakewalk, but I have not used cakewalk either so I do not know.

There is also jazz which recently became open source. Try http://www.jazzware.com/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/jazzware/ for jazz and see if it suites your needs. Between Rosegarden and Jazz I think you will find a good package.

send flames > /dev/null

I haven't done much searching recently, but I have jazz++ from Jazzware, and it works fairly well for hand sequencing. I couldn't get it to record, but I probably have an old version. Looking at the page now, it looks like they're going opensource.

This page is a good place for music/sound software for Linux.