New track made using Linux software

I didn't really like the drums. A bit too glitchy.

BUT the synths and melodies were gorgeous. Sounds very 'classic electronic music'-like... whatever that is.

This is great! The melody that comes in at 1:37 is wonderful, and the ending leaves me with a very complete feeling.

Does that software happen to be Renoise? Or is it another sequencer?

"This is something I made using Neil Modular Tracker for linux (https://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/) of which I am the main developer."

Oops, I should have followed through on the player link. That looks like a very interesting project.

Cool - how does Linux rate compared to Windows in terms of speed?

  On 10/19/2011 at 12:01 PM, Promo said:

Cool - how does Linux rate compared to Windows in terms of speed?

133.7 %

wow nice tune.

nice looking software as well, the best thing I was using was Seq24 when I last visited Linux, but this looks interesting.

warm homey atomspheres and smack crackles and click. the shwooping are in the right places for a quick builup to the smack. love the dubby keybooard. excellent

  On 10/19/2011 at 12:01 PM, Promo said:

Cool - how does Linux rate compared to Windows in terms of speed?

Not sure what you mean. The computer stays the same no matter what OS you install. Linux is highly customizable so you can have a light-weight system or a bloated crawling snail of doom on par with Windows machines. The programs run at the same speed if they are compiled with similar compilers using similar options.

not necessarily. the os can have embedded processes that you have no control over that may interfere with the performance of the software. this is the reason why benchmark tests exist. i dont have a link for windows vs linux, but i do have one for windows vs mac:

http://www.dawbench.com/win7-v-osx-1.htm

careful where you post that because i posted it on the brandance.co.uk forum, I was banned and the post was immediately removed.

You have pretty fine-grained control over all the system processes on Linux. It also heavily depend on what you do. A Linux distribution built for servers is not necessarily going to be fast on Desktops, since it may be fine tuned for fast I/O, disk performance or whatever at expense of other things. There is no one "Linux" to benchmark against.

you mean the nice level? that can be changed in windows too it's called "priority" and it doesnt make that much of a difference. so you're aware of a particular linux distro that's fine tuned for DAW performance?

There's more to it than using nice on processes. You can patch the kernel to use different process scheduling that is more suited for desktops for example http://users.on.net/~ckolivas/kernel/. You can fine-tune other kernel options too. Once upon a time there were benefits to compiling the kernel to run in real-time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system. Not sure about now. I don't use any audio specific distros, but there are some. Since I don't record anything and Neils' machines don't use that much CPU anyway its irrelevant to me.

what do you use?

Linux Mint Debian Edition XFCE version