Its not that bad but the most time you spend on installation is opting out of services. This takes up like 75% of the install time :D
Joplin works well for me.
Allright,
I´ve been making for 25 years now. Began with 16 and drumming on Dejmbes in tunnels broughtme initially in before I continued with Reason were I just mixed loops together and than began diving deeper into music after a friend tought me the first pieces of music theory.
After some training years I tramed up with local MCees and we had a first band called Quintesense with pretty smart story based texts and all. We had a few live perfomrances and its was huge fun.
Most of the time I spent with the next Group called Spruchpiloten and we released an Album and had a few hits like "Zurück zu Hause" ind Bombe. We had plenty of local club appearances sometimes completely improvised into electro or Drum n Bass territory comibined with rap vocals. A concept that later on Deickind started to make popular :D https://knsm.cc/kpmp3-015-spruchpiloten-starke-turbulenzen/
Maybe two hours a week is for producing if at all currently but thats fine as I prepare a massive solo comeback if all goes well.
Primary listening genres are HipHop, Drum n Bass, Electro, Deep House as well as Jazz and classic indian music or anythin that has rhytm.
Artists: Tribe called quest, Bad Company, Noisia, Misanthrop etc but also Khruangbin, Laufey, Lianne La Havas, Michael Kiwanuka on the softer side.
Random stuff, sometimes, music theory for weeks than a little mixing or stranjah for DnB stuff as I never had much ressources along the way except try and error and friends here and there.
I see, I think 24 years of producing should be kinda enough to find your musical purpose but it got worse over time. I used to make just short loops for my mcees and we went from there but they are are older and much busier. So now Iḿ pretty much standing there and thinking about solo takeoffs like a really good Drum n Bass album or electro ish kinda deep house groove loaded stuff with real instruments or sthg. But Iḿ really lakcing in patience, I mostly start stuff, got a solid core but struggle to get it going from there despite plenty of knowledge. I just enjoy plain loops, I dont need a story to tell, the loop it self is the story.
Also. there is so much stuff out there and I rarely find anything new that impresses me so I dont really see my own stuff as impressive either and got the feel it doesnt have anything of worth after the initial novelty effect.
Best thing is to just keep it as a day in the skatepark kind of thing. Go in there, pull some tricks, sweat a little, have fun and then let it go.
Just freeflow thoughts
Spend 10 minutes tuning the drums on a really promising DnB track.
If you don´t like to record directly to tape and you are not a fan of programming drums either there is a cool little method you can try if you haven´t already.
E voila - quantized drum recording :D
I frequently combine precisely sequenced elements (shuffled) with freely recorded material on tape to create an exceptionally powerful and groovy sound.
In short, there have been key signing issues multiple times in the past that. That were the most notable problems from the user side.
Running three instances with KDE that are unproblematic.
Id say start with basic synth tutorial together with the manual maybe. Sometimes they got really good tricks. Next stage, just program a few sounds by playing around and use them in some songs and then go deeper into sound design with specific classic sounds to learn from. Not sure if there any useful books out there.
Its lots of experience mostly and understanding what happens to the wave when using the parameters.
Anyone got a sampletrek? Think this unit is a bit of underrated as a central recording and song composition device. I mean it looks a bit funny but the clips and global tracks and the slicing seems pretty good. Sure switching to an MPC one is not far off but it seems even the small monitor is something that I like.
I found it a really interesting concept too and it looks nice.
If you struggle with chord changes on the OP-1 or remembering progressions in between sessions, I found the pattern sequencer can act as nice place to save and perform from.
The idea is to enter the cords into the sadly just 1 bar pattern sequencer with a bit of space between them like in the picture. Then set the envelope to a longer release and when you press the C key short enough you just hear the first chord. After that you can roll through the chords with shift and green encoder and select the next chord without loosing the first. You can record chords way more rhytmically this way and more precise instead of having to change position on the keyboard.
Next time you want to continue you still have the chords in the memory! :D
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Maybe obvious but why not share.
Iḿ quite happy with manjaro despite a few not so pretty incidents in the past. Endeavour OS seems a good choice too.
I'm running Joplin syncing through a nextcloud. Works solid for 2 years now.
Havent tried Lutris but had success on some games outside of steam with bottles and the proton environment there.