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OSS Music Composer Gaining Attention

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sounds-like-fun dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following in the footsteps of Psycle, VioLet Composer is a completely GPLed music composer for Windows that has slowly but surely been gaining attention. In an interview at Laptoprockers the author covers not only the program itself but the his reasoning behind choosing to open the source using the GPL."

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  1. Backups by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Funny
    FTFA:

    This guarantees that in the future it will *always* be possible for *anyone* to pick up from some point in VC development and continue it or to make their own flavour of it. The GPL also guarantees that VC will always be available for free, even if I or someone else decides to make a commercial derivative later on.

    The day the source code to Buzz got lost was a very sad day and there was absolutely nothing anyone could do. We'd just had an updated version of Buzz released and suddenly everyone realised there would *never* be another one. By publishing not just the application but also all of the files that go together to make it, I'm making sure this can't happen to my little corner of the scene again. "Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds
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  2. Don't forget ModPlug by MindKata · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its great there are some good OSS music editors. I've not heard of VioLet Composer until now, but I'll check it out.

    One great OSS music editor I've used is ModPlug.
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug/

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  3. Re:And now with link by X0563511 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Er, the friggin thing lets you wire the "rack" and the "rack" devices are actual programs that you can enter and edit!

    You call that a lack of features?

    Basically a not as pretty version of "Reason" where you make your own devices. Plus some other things that are nice.

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