Free audio maker

[japtar10101]

Are there any, particularly for Linux, music editors that's compatible with simple keyboard and generates either ogg or mp3's?

I was just curious. There's Blender for 3-D, GIMP for 2-D, countless number of editor for programming, yet I don't know that many sound editors other than Audacity. Then again, I admit having no experience with music , so I should probably look more into how to compose music rather than looking for a tool to electronically do so.

[Nonsensoleum]

Ubuntu Studio or it's list of apps seems like a good place to start. They seem to have an extensive list of audio apps besides audacity (though I couldn't tell you how well they work.)

[japtar10101]

Ubuntu Studio or it's list of apps seems like a good place to start. They seem to have an extensive list of audio apps besides audacity (though I couldn't tell you how well they work.)

...I already installed this ! Well, what's distinctly easy to use in that distro? I think some of them requires you to have a keyboard, which I have no money for....

[hero twin]

Yer probably going to have to learn some sort of audio environment to produce the music. Without a keyboard you can just program the notes into a sequencer. But you're right, you should probably look into composing in general and then find an environment that suits your style (reason / protools / ableton live / FL studio). There's a free windows app called pxtone here: http://buzinkai.net/PXTone/tutorial/ for making retro music.. I'm not familiar with linux

[Nonsensoleum]

Ubuntu Studio or it's list of apps seems like a good place to start. They seem to have an extensive list of audio apps besides audacity (though I couldn't tell you how well they work.)

...I already installed this ! Well, what's distinctly easy to use in that distro? I think some of them requires you to have a keyboard, which I have no money for....

I didn't mean to install the distro, I meant to apt-get the programs it has available. I'm sure one can sequence midi by hand or at least has a qwerty keyboard > midi keyboard interpreter.

[japtar10101]

Ubuntu Studio or it's list of apps seems like a good place to start. They seem to have an extensive list of audio apps besides audacity (though I couldn't tell you how well they work.)

...I already installed this ! Well, what's distinctly easy to use in that distro? I think some of them requires you to have a keyboard, which I have no money for....

I didn't mean to install the distro, I meant to apt-get the programs it has available. I'm sure one can sequence midi by hand or at least has a qwerty keyboard > midi keyboard interpreter.

No, I meant, I've installed the distro long ago.

I was looking for something besides midi, but then again, I know little about music.

[Nonsensoleum]

No, I meant, I've installed the distro long ago.

I was looking for something besides midi, but then again, I know little about music.

Well, what exactly are you looking to do? For the most part, audacity is what's used for any sort of wav file sequencing, so I assumed you wanted midi since it's audacity's one weakness. Midi will be easier to compose directly to, and you don't need to save it as a midi and can use almost any instruments you want so it's not like it will all sound like the same generic piano. And I imagine most open source programs can save oggs. If you're just looking to record music or edit existing wavs/mp3s/oggs audacity should work.

[japtar10101]

Well, what exactly are you looking to do? For the most part, audacity is what's used for any sort of wav file sequencing, so I assumed you wanted midi since it's audacity's one weakness. Midi will be easier to compose directly to, and you don't need to save it as a midi and can use almost any instruments you want so it's not like it will all sound like the same generic piano. And I imagine most open source programs can save oggs. If you're just looking to record music or edit existing wavs/mp3s/oggs audacity should work.

OK, makes sense. I must have had some misconception or something, but yes, I do want to compose rather than record music. I'll start searching, then.