Music composer, game designer and cybermancer.

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Cake day: January 23rd, 2024
  • Noo@jlai.lutoLinux@lemmy.ml•Music Production and Software Synthesizers/VST's under Linux
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    18 days ago

    Welcome and congrats on your migration under GNU/Linux.

    VST is a proprietary format therefore it is made to not work on linux. On linux synth or virtual instruments are LV2 plugins (like Helm, Surge or Vitalium) or SF2/SFZ soundbank (played with Sfizz or Fluid Synth).

    Now Ardour, Bitwig and Reaper can load VST plugins, but :

    • Some won’t just work,
    • Some will work pretty much the same (Kontakt seems to be working for some person, but it depends on the version I think), BUT if the VSTs needs to be installed before hand (like Kontakt, Spitfire, SINE and I think Arturia V falls into that), you will have to install them first using Wine (or with a wine front-end, like Bottles, Heroic, Lutris). Then load them in your DAW, if they don’t work there after being properly download and installed, I don’t think there is anything much to do… … Apart from try using a bridge (like Lin-VST or Yabridge), but here against results are still very unpredictable. I got some pretty god results with both on the past, but on my new setup none would work for my plugins (Spitfires mostly).

    These companies won’t make their plugins available under Linux cause ‘there isn’t enough people using it on linux’ (words of someone at Spitfire who I was asking the question).

    My workflow for production in a few words :

    • One PC (recording, mixing, mastering) with a midi keyboard,
    • One PC virtual instruments only, I use it when project requires lot of instrument tracks.
  • Noo@jlai.lutoLinux@lemmy.ml•Crosspost: Ideas and Tips for Dual Boot and Audio Things on Linux (2011 Laptop)
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    8 months ago

    On the DAW, the three are good, I use Ardour cause it’s a free software, but I’ve been told the other two are good, specially for people coming from ableton who want something close. Ardour is really a old-fashioned saw like pro-tools.

    Check Librazik it’s a distro based on debian made for musicale production.

    I’d say you don’t need a specific distro for what you want to do : a Debian or Arch with KDE could do the trick, but I would recommend to use a lighter desktop environment like Xfce. You may not like it coming from mac but it will preserve machine resources for your audio work.

    Ardour runs pretty much on it’s own on any distro, you can still do some conf, I suggest to go to linuxmao.fr the website is mostly in French but have a lot of configuration documentation.

    This audio interface will not be an issue as it’s plug and play on Linux since a while now.

  • Noo@jlai.lutoFrance@jlai.lu•Procès de Mazan : #AllMen, quand la possibilité de viol et de féminicide se trouve dans tous les hommes - L'HumanitéFrançais
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    8 months ago

    C’est simpliste comme a chaque fois qu’on pousse un argument jusqu’à l’absurdité.

    On peut faire exactement pareil avec ce que tu dis, si personne ne tient rigueur a l’Occident pour ses erreurs et ses travers, ça peut justifier de ne rien faire pour empêcher qu’elles se répètent. “Vu que personne ne dit rien, c’est que c’est pas si grave l’impérialisme”…

    L’autre aspect c’est que expliquer un comportement ne le justifie pas, mais ça permet de comprendre. Le mexicain qui pense que les américains sont tous des cons, il a factuellement tord, c’est une certitude, maintenant est-ce que sa réaction est incompréhensible et sort de nul part ? Bah non. Il faut en tenir compte aussi.

    Quand tu vois le nombre d’agressions de femme en France par an, juste du fait d’être des femmes (donc pas des réglements de compte de gangs ou d’affaires liées a la drogue), ça t’étonnes toi que des femmes développent des discours misandre ? Moi non.

  • Noo@jlai.lutoFrance@jlai.lu•Procès de Mazan : #AllMen, quand la possibilité de viol et de féminicide se trouve dans tous les hommes - L'HumanitéFrançais
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    8 months ago

    Non, ça n’est pas ce que j’ai dit : on peut tomber d’accord sur le fait que la colonisation c’est le fait essentiellement des occidentaux (qui ne sont pas tous blanc d’ailleurs), puis depuis les superpuissances internationales sont occidentales (Russie, USA, Europe), jusqu’aux années 1980. Donc quelque part on peu pas dire que les autres peuples aient particulièrement été en position de force vis-à-vis de l’Occident depuis des siècles. = il y a une forme d’impérialisme et donc d’oppression.

    Du coup est-ce que tu demandes a ces populations et gouvernements d’être moralement supérieur au occidentaux ?

    Je pense pour ma part qu’on peut comprendre que ça soit à la fois facile en tant qu’occidentaux de demander aux autres d’être moralement supérieur envers nous, et a la fois un peu injuste considérant que les occidentaux ont été hyper avantager notamment dans leur développement sociale en conséquence de leur domination.

    Les occidentaux ont été des oppresseurs oui, et les conséquences de cette oppression continuent de provoquer des remous dans la société. Ça fait chier, mais c’est comme ça.

    D’une certaine manière c’est un peu la même chose entre les genres.

  • Noo@jlai.lutoGames@sh.itjust.works•Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Clumsy, Preachy Political Messaging Does More Harm Than GoodEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Tennis again?

    Joke aside, pure competitive games are indeed just pure competitive games with no context at all. But competition in itself is ideological and political (the need to make the opponent lose) so Pong is too.

    It’s a point of view on multiplayer gaming. In Pong there is always a loser and a winner, never two winners, never two losers (can we even make a draw in original Pong? I don’t know).

    Pong is also a game that opposed human versus computer, it can be view as pure skill exercise to be a ‘better’ human or it can be literally a fight against the machine like playing chess against a computer. Both makes me want to ask what is the point to do this ? I think answers at this questions are political indeed.

  • Noo@jlai.lutoGames@sh.itjust.works•Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Clumsy, Preachy Political Messaging Does More Harm Than GoodEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Super Mario make a twist on the trope of the knight saving the princess. The knight is just a plumber and it is said to him that the ‘princess is an another castle’. But at the end the right order of the world is restaured when Mario finally frees the princess from the evil Bowser.

    So from a political standpoint Super Mario is a product believing strongly in individualism and in the self made man ideology. The twist shows only that even a plumber can save the princess if he works enough = liberal capitalism making us believed that we’ll be all rock stars and billionaires when we’re definitively not (and yes I’m quoting fight club here). All this is the consequence of the game focussing more on gameplay than it’s narration, therefore it leans towards what was the common thinking of the time.

    Polygamy (relationship between Peach, Mario and Luigi, if that’s what you are referring to) is much to me a side effect of the 2 players gameplay possibility, but it is still indeed pretty interesting in itself yeah.

    You probably meant it as a joke, but too bad you get a real answer :)