What software can I use on ubuntu?

[germainehugh]

Does anybody here use a synthesizer like fruity loops on ubuntu? I no longer have access to a windows machine, and fruity loops doesn't work in my alternative: wine. Any suggestions?

 

[SeaGtGruff]

I thought Fruity Loops was a DAW, not a soft synth? Anyway, I do have Ubuntu running on a virtual machine on my Windows computer, but I haven't tried to run any DAWs or soft synths on it yet-- although I would think you could try any DAW that runs under Linux to see how you like it.

Tracktion T7 is supported for Ubuntu 12.0.

Cockos REAPER runs under WINE.

 

[rob aylestone]

That's the trouble - all these lovely alternate OS's, that can't run anything useful!

 

[SweetDan]

I did a little thing once w/Qtractor (sequencer), ZynAddSubFX (software synth), Hydrogen drum machine, and Audacity to stitch the tracks together:

All of those programs are open source, and you should be able to google up helpful stuff in the Ubuntu forums when you run into problems using them (and because audio on linux is such a pain, you probably will run into tricky problems; keep at it though, and you should be able to come up w/something...).

 

[ecc83]

There is a guy, Folderol over at SoS forum that I know runs Linux music software because I loaned him my NI KA6 to check things out.
The AI worked fine and he bought one on the strength.

Pop over and ask.

Dave.

 

[Dave Holmes]

I tried Ardour for a while on my little netbook and quite liked it... I had some pretty major issues getting my audio interface (Focusrite 2i2) to play nicely with Mint though so I gave it up...
A mate of mine is running BitWig on his Linux machine - he had a fair amount of driver trouble (midi controllers mainly) in the beginning but he's making some cool stuff now. Not sure what distro he's using tho...

 

[Steenamaroo]

That's the trouble - all these lovely alternate OS's, that can't run anything useful!

Heh..Probably a bit extreme!?
There's an abundance of synthesisers available for linux and they're all (surprise surprise)...free!
Depending what OS version you have, you may already have some synthesisers in there.

 

[YanKleber]

I thought Fruity Loops was a DAW, not a soft synth?

It is a sequencer software... It has some DAW capabilities (as well mostly of DAW has sequencer abilities) but it is definitively NOT primarily a DAW.

Anyway, a quick Google research has returned me that there is a certain LMMS that seems to be a free cross-platform alternative to FL.

 

[Dave Holmes]

It is a sequencer software... It has some DAW capabilities (as well mostly of DAW has sequencer abilities) but it is definitively NOT primarily a DAW.

If you talking about the early versions of Fruity Loops then I'd agree but the current FL-Studio (not sure if it's 11 or 12) is definitely a fully featured Digital Audio Workstation. It definitely lends itself more to electronic music than rocknroll granted.