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

Thanks for the awesome comments everyone - I’m reading all of them 🙏

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/

The thought is still appreciated haha 🙏

Oh hey - thanks for the share!

Shout out to @Binette@lemmy.ml for advising me to cross-post here from lemmy.ml/c/opensource

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

I really hope an explanation is forthcoming as to why they need all data. It is concerning that a “privacy-focused” browser doesn’t take the time to explain that.

Until they do, I think I’m gonna give WaterFox a whirl.

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