Live Loop based pattern sequencer

[napalmskatterjazz]

Something LIKE Ableton Live shouldnt be too far away.. I think we should merge many existing audio apps, and add the "clip view" as a way to perform. Be able to choose Either a linear audio editing mode or live performance clip and track mode. The design for Ardour is Great if we could modify to add loop function and a new way to arrange on the fly.. I love Ubuntu But I still dualboot to Windows just for making music. I can record in Linux, but I cant play in linux. Any ideas here would be great. We dont need cubase/logic style recording DAWs but clip/scene ableton style sequencer. Thanks everyone, Luvin You Guys.

[mzw!]

I resurrect this topic...
I am also interested in this, any suggestion will be much appreciated.

Thank you!!!

(I am looking for something by myself and in other forums, I will post anything when I can find it)

[phetre]

Hi, mzw! and napalmskatterjazz,

Check out this article by Dave Philips, "Loop-based Music Composition With Linux" (http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000304). It's mostly about studio tools, but he mentions Freewheeling (http://freewheeling.sourceforge.net/welcome.shtml) and SooperLooper (http://essej.net/sooperlooper/) as being good live tools. Unfortunately, SooperLooper requires JACK.

He doesn't mention it, but you might also try Aldrin (http://trac.zeitherrschaft.org/aldrin/wiki/AldrinScreenshots), a reimagining of the Windows program Buzz. I haven't used Ableton Live, but I suspect Aldrin can come pretty close if you build a suitable setup. Check out the sequence editor screenshot linked above, for example.

Nota bene: Aldrin doesn't do beatmatching or timestretching. It may do pitchshifting, but I don't know for sure. Buzz did, and it runs well through Wine.

Let us know if you find anything else out there!

[mzw!]

Thank you!! I knew about FW y SL, but did not about aldrin. BTW, the web it is not working right now? is the project still alive?

[phetre]

You're right! The Aldrin website is down now, and it was incredibly slow anyway. The project is active, though. Packages are now hosted here: http://www.pohunek.free.fr/ (Hardy handles the "gutsy" packages just fine.)

Since the wiki appears to be down, here are some screenshots from my installation:

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the sequencer

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the "machines" view

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the instrument/samplebank editor