Love it! I’ve saved a copy, because I think it’ll make future explanations a lot easier. Thanks!

Yeah ReNoise is great! Though since I’ve transitioned to a full-FOSS workflow, I now use OpenMPT as my main, and Furnace for Game Boy specific tracks.

I’ve listed my main tools here if you’re interested: https://johnoestmannmusic.com/tooling/

Will do! Wait, you know flight_school from somewhere? :o

As much as I love what they’re doing, tieing an OS to a specific region via name seems like the opposite of Open Source values… Then again, I suppose it could just be forked into a more generalized version

according to the linked article, it sounds like it is for performance reasons.

I’m just going to use this opportunity to publicly grieve again for Winamp fake becoming open-source: https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/winamp-taken-down-too-good-for-this-open-source-world/

GitHub here: https://github.com/allenai/OLMoE.swift

Ai2 make as much of their training data available as possible: https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/OLMoE-mix-0924

Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/canada-goose-bald-eagle-burlington-bay-brawl-1.7473477

https://english.news.cn/20250304/05756798546f4f7aa85a310326954657/c.html

Is this Club Penguin?

I would just like to push back and say that the Internet was an open public project, and it has helped countless people across the world. Every single problematic tech that people are pointing to at the moment are closed-source commercial projects.

That is Capitalism at work.

But but but SteamOS!

I was using Audacity for quick Normalization and other edits to my samples, but I’ve since learned I can do that inside OpenMPT (and save those edits back to file). Audacity does lack any form of “midi-esque” sequencing though, which is how I primarily work.

Having said that, Audacity has come a long with VST support, etc, since Muse Group got involved. But unfortunately, they also allegedly enforced data tracking in a way that didn’t respect the community that had supported it up until then. I actually don’t know what the latest is (someone else feel free to reply with the update), but it hasn’t been crucial enough in my workflow to keep up with.

My pleasure :)

Silver-lining: Ableton is very good and teaches a lot! Also, in case you ended up getting into Max4Live at all, it’s worth checking out PlugData

Didn’t realise it came with some Linux distros - cool! Sounds like something for me to spend a weekend looking into…

Yeah I asked about that on the LMMS Discord too, and said I had the same assumption. Apparently it is still under active dev, but you need to scroll down to the nightly builds.

I don’t know why they don’t update the Git Releases…

Hahah yes, MIDI lag can be tricky, depending on setup. If the tracker-style DAWs I’ve listed don’t work for your style, try LMMS, Helio, or Zrythm

Just started exploring Linux Studio Plugins last weekend! I’ve heard Ardour is good, but I’m sticking to $0 options if I can help it. That way people don’t need access to credit cards, etc, to use the software

I have used and would recommend Blender. I just don’t use it regularly :)

Yeah LMMS is decent, and its Piano Roll is actually really really good. However, IIRC I renamed some folders and it completely broke project links to my samples and was not easily fixable.