I’ve wanted to get back into piano and to start off I was wondering if there was any decent FOSS piano software for linux?
- rah ( @rah@feddit.uk ) 12•1 year ago
piano software
What do you mean?
- cygnus ( @cygnus@lemmy.ca ) 11•1 year ago
Do you mean a VST? There’s a good list of open-source VSTs here: https://github.com/webprofusion/OpenAudio
- eah ( @eah@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
https://blog.wolftune.com/p/software-recommendations-and-more.html
If anybody knows what you’re looking for, the author of this blog does.
- ___ ( @___@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
Does musescore fit your needs? If you want a piano… you should probably get a midi input keyboard. If you don’t need 88 keys and real-time playing, you can deal with less octaves.
- noddy ( @noddy@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I guess the closest to a decent FOSS piano plugin is MDA Piano, or perhaps search for piano samples. Perhaps someone has created a decent piano preset for the dexed FM synth (but will probably sound very 80s). I’m using pianoteq (unfortunately proprietary, but it has native linux support and sounds good).
- prunerye ( @prunerye@slrpnk.net ) 2•1 year ago
I’ve never dived into this, but if electronic keyboards are just glorified midi-controllers, I’d have to think you could find a FOSS solution. If they’re not simply midi-controllers, I wouldn’t begin to know. I’d imagine you might have an easier time with keyboards from the 90s or whenever.
- bruce965 ( @bruce965@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Well… if you want the very minimum necessary to play piano, I’ve written this tool to do it with just a MIDI keyboard and a modern browser.
http://tools.fabioiotti.com/midi-synth/index.html https://github.com/bruce965/midi-synth
Not quite sure what you’re after - but on the off chance, I’ll mention LMMS, as I don’t think it’s already been mentioned amongst the other audio software.
Website here: LMMS
- Bob Smith ( @bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz ) 1•1 year ago
I’ve used Ardour to capture keyboard midi input before. Not beginner-friendly, but it works if you want to play something, pick a soundfile, edit a flubbed note or two, and add it to a project.