The one time I’m actively hoping for them to cancel a show they don’t. What the fuck are they even thinking? I’d rather have another season of live action Cowboy Bebop than a season of Witcher without Henry. Watching the last three episodes of that show I’ll ever watch as I type this.

It’s been bugging me all day how I know that name and I just remembered. They were on this show and it’s fucking awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutesToLateNight

Before or after getting trampled?

Definitely check out Reaper just as a comparison. The license is essentially free and you pay to get rid of the nag screen. It doesn’t prevent you from doing anything…ever! I used it like that for the first week until I realized how much I liked it. Reaper and Ardour together are fantastic.

My goal is to create music for video games.

Nice! There are so many good free virtual synths out there. If you have a MIDI controller/keyboard with plenty of knobs you’ll have a blast. We were just talking about the best free synths the other day…

Vital, Surge XT, Viking VK-1, Odin 2, TAL U-No 60. Synth1, Helm, Vital, dexed, Cardinal/VCVRack

I’ve tried most of these. They’re all cool for their own reasons. I personally like the modular stuff (VCV) because you can make generative patches that change over time without really having to do anything. Just fiddle with the knobs and pretend like they’re too hot to touch :D

So much depends on your workflow, hardware, and work requirements.

I personally think you should figure out those things first and then see if you can achieve that with OSS.

If the workflow of Ableton is what you need or prefer then I would say just switch now and use that. Some style of music appears easier to produce with Ableton. Clip launching, loops, that kind of live DJ type stuff.

If you’re looking to stick with the Pro Tools style workflow then I think you should stick with Ardour. Their documentation used to say that if you didn’t know how to do something and it wasn’t in the manual then just look at the Pro Tools docs.

My background…

Back in 2008 I started off fresh. Only knowing how to use Audacity and switched to Ardour because it was too hard to get a decent mix when all you can do is destructive editing. I switched to Reaper for MIDI work two years ago but I still export from that and finish tracks off in Ardour because I prefer the mixing and mastering process in Ardour. It’s just more familiar and I can get what I want faster.

Sorry if I assume you’re less experienced than you are. It seems like you’ve got an insane amount of musical skill but you’re new to the recording aspect.

If you’re just getting started in audio production then I think the most important thing you can do is learn the general concepts. How you do implement these in various DAWs might be a little different but most likely you’re going to be using the same concepts (compression, sends to reverbs, bussing, etc), plugins, the same hardware, and all in the same room. Basically, I don’t think the software you use is the largest factor in the potential for your music. Composition > performance > sound treatment > recording quality > the other stuff.

One thing I can say for sure is that if you’re going to be recording MIDI data in Ardour you’ll probably not have a great time. I used to think it was fine until I tried Reaper. There probably have been some improvements to it since I’ve used it last and I know they added a clip launch feature to be more similar to Ableton but I just don’t think that’s where Ardour shines (which is tracking, mixing, and mastering).

Also, if you ever need help with Ardour you should stop by !ardour@lemmy.studio.

Spinning on the sign-up.

Is there still that bug where validating email doesn’t work?

My instance is on 0.17.4 and I completely gave up on trying to get that to work.

There was a comment in that article that links to an online version.

http://darwingrosse.com/ScoreBuilder/

Is that notation supposed to make sense? Like synth tab?

Tons of great samples in there. Nice score!

Looking forward to their tour.

https://qotsa.com/tour/

My money is on the cat.

I think so. I’ve only been on this thing a few days and it seems to be growing fast. One thing that seems to help is to subscribe to interesting communities on other instances to help other new people find them easier.

You should also check out some of the communities on lemmy.studio. It’s an instance for musicians that I think will pair nicely with this one.

Slap a goatee on Mike and have him take the lead roll in All-Star.

The remove community action seems to work on local and remote (other instance) communities but I don’t know if it also bans them.

I couldn’t find it in the documentation and I don’t have an instance of my own set up yet so I can’t test it. Hope someone else is able to answer that last bit.

This isn’t exactly a community ban list but it is a list of communities that have been removed.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog

Change the drop-down that says “All” to “Removing Communities”.

Have you checked out any of the MPC products? If you’re into sampling and chopping then you’ve definitely got to consider something.

For around $550 you could get a used MPC One. Might be going down now with the MPC One+ getting released.

Another option is just a MIDI controller that would work well with their free DAW, MPC Beats. It’s the same workflow but you have to work while connected to a computer. For less than $200 bucks there are a bunch of keyboards with controls and drum pads that would be totally fun. The MPK Mini MK3 is one I’ve been meaning to get so it’s easier to control softsynths.

I created a community for Reaper (the DAW) over on lemmy.studio.

https://lemmy.studio/c/reaper