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.

Cardinal is my favorite. It's a fork of VCVrack and can be used as a plugin in Reaper.

Sometimes I compose entire pieces in Cardinal and then route each sound to its own track in Reaper. Other times I just use it as a drone or chaos noise machine.

First from my instance on here :D

I don't see any comments on this post and this is also the only post I can see but I'll be around.

Looking forward to their tour.

https://qotsa.com/tour/

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.

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

Good idea. I should put some work into the sidebar and slap a bunch of resources in there.

Weird. I was going to recommend trying !liveaudio@lemmy.world but that didn't work for me. I finally got it with https://lemmy.world/c/liveaudio but liveaudio should work as well now that I've subscribed.

Before or after getting trampled?

My bad. You're completely right. I forgot that's how I was doing it.

The only reason I saw to use the config software is that the sensitivity on the knobs needs to be modified or they just act like a toggle.

Had the same thing happen to me the other day. Rebooted and changed to another terminal with ctrl+alt+f2 then re-ran apt upgrade. It failed with a message saying to run some dpkg command first. It was finally able to recompile the kernel and get the nvidia drivers installed.

Hahahah...that is pretty rad. I looked through some of the guides and saw you're limited to 100,000 a year. Hope that's enough :D.

I suppose if someone was just cranking out generative tunes that wouldn't be too hard.

That's amazing. Do you have more of these?

Nice. What kind of headphones you rockin'?

I'm still learning the ropes of this thing but I've gotten really good at finding communities. What I haven't done much is comment and browse. Now that I'm happy with the amount of subscriptions I've added it's time to start commenting and upvoting everything I see. I didn't notice this thread until now so I guess it's the best place to start.

Like many people I'm a reddit refugee. My plans are to delete my 15yo account and not look back. I don't care if they fix what's wrong with the place. Honestly, I don't think they can. A decentralized internet was what was great about the internet before and it makes no sense to embrace anything else.

So... about me... I've been an amateur musician most of my life and have never released an album. Two years ago I got laid off from my software job and decided to spend time getting more into what I'm passionate about before hopping back into a paying job. My band is working on a weird synth-pop/rap album so I've been researching mixing/mastering for a while. Hoping to release something before the end of the summer.

My main DAW for the past 15 years has been Ardour but I recently switched to Reaper because that's what the rest of the band was familiar with. I started the Reaper community here so I'll posting there when I see interesting and relevant information. I've always been more of a lurker/upvoter than a poster or moderator so it's kind of cool to be on a smaller community where I think there's even a chance someone will read something I've posted.

Thanks for hosting, Beto!

Yeah, ended up doing that last night and they didn't seem interested. I wanted them to know I was saving a spot for them in case they decided to join.

I don't know what the future of /r/reaper looks like but it will be interesting to have posts between here and there :D

This release also makes it possible to automatically activate supported control surfaces once they’re connected to USB MIDI ports. This feature currently works with the Ableton Push 2, PreSonus FaderPort 8, PreSonus FaderPort 16, Softube Console 1, and Contour Design Shuttle controllers.

This is awesome. I've been holding back on control surfaces like this for a while.

While Ardour 7.4 introduced sections to mark a range as a chorus and paste its entire contents and automation elsewhere, Ardour 7.5 improves this feature by adding some editor commands like cutting and pasting, copying and pasting, deleting, and inserting.

Nice as well. That's something I never knew I wanted until I had it. I suppose it's time to upgrade from 6.9.

Reatune is so good. I use it on all my vocal tracks as well. When I'm singing it's nice feedback to see how off I am and then also a good way to correct those mistakes if I'm feeling lazy.

If you could control the pitch it corrected to with MIDI that would be even better. The manual correction is fine but takes longer.

I started playing banjo about month ago! Want to co-moderate a banjo community here?

That's good to know. Seems required for Distrokid but not CDBaby. Have you used BeatStars at all?