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I want to put together a stack for hobbyist midi music composition. I understand there are a few more components to it than one might expect, but I think VMPK and Qtracer are going to be part of it?

Any tutorial links or suggestions appreciated!

https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/

https://qtractor.org/

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[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Whatever you end up using, have JACK sync 'em up. I used to have two Macs, one for recording with Nuendo and one for doing MIDI sequencing and programming. They synced via MIDI sync and there was always issues. Now I have everything on one Linux machine (Ardour records and mixes, Reaper sequences MIDI and Renoise does beats and other sampling related stuff) and with JACK the sync is seamless <3

[–] ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

i am trying to figure out how to configure JACK, a 32 key M-Audio Keystation, Surge XT, and Ardour and it is very challenging to figure out, i should have gone to school for this i guess