Music composer, game designer and cybermancer.

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Cake day: January 23rd, 2024
  • Noo@jlai.lutoLinux@lemmy.ml•Ardour 8.10 released
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    22 days ago

    Fruity Loops doesn’t have any easy equivalent on Linux. I’d say try reaper and ardour as they provide windows binaries. Be careful LMMS isn’t a FL clone, it’s midi only.

    For the Arturia plugins you can install them with wine and use yabridge to make them compatible if they are not in vst compatible format (ardour can take vst2 and vst3 but sometimes it will not work). You can also have a dedicated PC for instruments (it is what I do) on windows (using audio gridder). Gotta test the Linux server version of audio gridder to see if I can go back to linux on m’y second PC. Or you can just send the midi notes to pc2 then get the audio out to pc1.

    It’s doable to make proprietary plugins run on Linux but the reliability is the nightmarish part, as an update can break the wine compatibility and it can take a few mins/hours to restore.

  • Noo@jlai.lutoLinux@lemmy.ml•Ardour 8.10 released
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    22 days ago

    It’s a real issue because, technical aspect aside, lots of instruments cost a lot of money and are necessary to keep up with the trend. Also theses plugins can save you a lot of time, meaning you can provide more music on short time (effect plugins are concern as well here).

  • Noo@jlai.lutoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why is online privacy so important?
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    22 days ago

    Name, address, GPS localisation data, habits (like apps you often use, moments you use one device or another), gender, search terms in search engines, open web pages on a web browser, connection (other person you know), the work you do and where you work.

    All kinds of things, really.

    The usage is mostly advertising or identity theft.

  • Noo@jlai.lutoLinux@lemmy.ml•Ardour 8.10 released
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    22 days ago

    As a professional music composer myself and working on Linux with Ardour, I’d say it is overall pretty good since many years. If you don’t like midi in Ardour you can use another soft to runs midi notes. On Linux the good thing is that if you don’t like something you can change, specially with audio softwares.

    To me the two major issues with professional music on Linux are :

    • Proprietary plugins for virtual instruments are a nightmare (hard to make them to work, expensive on machine’s resources and unreliable),

    • Most company still think free software = unprofessional/amateur, which can make it harder to get jobs.

  • Noo@jlai.lutoLinux@lemmy.ml•[Answered] Any open source host solution for private users?
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    2 months ago

    It isn’t because he needs to be willing to teach in the first place. If a person don’t want to teach autonomy to another, the debate ends here.

    But to know if you want to take the time to teach someone, you have to consider the possibility in the first place not thinking ‘impossible’ then move along.

    Also we can debate on how to teach a family member without being overwhelmed, because it is a real topic of discussion.

  • Noo@jlai.lutoLinux Gaming@lemmy.ml•Sober is a new way to play Roblox on Linux from the Vinegar team
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    3 months ago

    Thanks for your reply :)

    I think the problem with roblox goes far beyond the individual freedom to access a program.

    What we both say isn’t mutually exclusive. But I do think that gaming Linux communities could take a stand on the kind of gaming world we want and the kind we don’t want…

    Looking at the downvotes I get here and setting aside people who don’t like/understand irony, I feel either there are a bunch of roblox-fan (I sincerely hope it’s not it) or there are people like you who took the individual freedom to use a computer and apply it with crushing dogmatism (but without taking the time to expend on it like you did). But do gnu/Linux communities have to be chain to this ? I’m not sure. When twitter was shit, do we just said ‘never mind it runs on Linux, we’re free.’ ? Or reddit or Facebook ? No we discouraged actively to use those platforms and we build alternative that are better for people. Here what do we have ? A gaming platform with predatory practices toward children and we give it access to our computer without even the game studio had to lift a finger for it. A new (and small yes, but still) market of users for what you called yourself a ‘asshole game studio’.