I’m a dad, so I have no time and all my gear is old. I want to start making music again, but I think I need to more or less start over in terms of gear and software.
I’d like to hear a bit just about what you all are using to make music.
Are we all using Macs and commercial software like Logic or Abelton? Anyone bravely trying to work things with Linux? Anyone kicking it old school and recording to tape? Anyone using light weight set ups like iPads or tiny Zoom recorders?
Are you saying you wrote a DAW?
Very basic thing. It produces sounds only with builtin synthesizer engine (does not support samples).
https://valent-in.github.io/pulseq/
GitHub page with short instructions and music examples: https://github.com/valent-in/pulseq/
So do you prefer the sounds it makes? Or is it just quick and easy?
For quick and easy… sketching. This is no way “pro tool”. Also works on mobile, has very small project files (one of reasons to not add samples). And about sound - it uses very generic subtractive synth, nothing special.
That sounds fun. I find I’m often picking out Melodies on my kid’s toy piano just because there’s no set up needed.
This was an attempt to transform programming to another “hobby”. And instead of relaxed creation of loops I stuck in coding of this project too long, unfortunately. But it gave great experience and also some measurements of my abilities.