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They're all over the internet, but one of the best is, host to hundreds of thousands Creative Commons sounds.

Samples: you can create your own samples in MilkyTracker by drawing your own waveforms, but if you want to make music that doesn't sound like Nintendo themes, then you should grab a sample library.

MilkyTracker: your repository, or go-to extras repository (like SlackBuilds, has it available.

To use MilkyTracker, you'll need two things: But don't worry, it's not nearly as intimidating as its reputation. Trackers are also known for having possibly the most intimidating learning curve of any music application. Trackers are known for making the data entry part of composing very efficient (notes are laid out in a vertical column rather than horizontally, making it very fast to enter notes as naturally as you would enter, say, data into a spreadsheet) and for producing musical quality ranging from 8-bit "chip tunes" to professional-grade electronic masterpieces (because what it plays depends on the samples you use, not on the tracker's own capabilities).

It is cross-platform and extremely lightweight because it doesn't rely on synthesizers to produce sound instead, it triggers samples. MilkyTracker was GPLed in 2008, and it seeks to emulate one of popular original trackers, FastTracker. The one I chose to use, of the three that are familiar to me (Milky, Schism, and Sound), is MilkyTracker. (Arguably earlier, depending on how you view some of the earlier hardware interfaces on some drum machines and sample sequencers.) For now, suffice it to say that the concept of trackers has been around since at least the early '90s. In other words, instead of trying to use lightweight versions of modern music software, the ultimate answer turns out to be a grand old tradition of electronic music: the tracker.Ī proper history of trackers is out of scope for this article, so if you're interested, look up information on the original trackers like FastTracker and ProTracker. In fact, music used to be (and still is, in some circles) made on rack units that used floppy disk drives and MIDI cables. Music wasn't always made on fast multi-core computers with gigabytes of RAM. It was fun to noodle around with, but it definitely wasn't something I'd take on the road (and by "road", I mean "studio") to perform or to an event to teach people about computer music. Once I got serious about making music on it, rather than just making loops for fun, I found that it ran very slow even with just a simple sequence, and a lot worse when I added more synths into the mix. No JACK required, and a fairly lightweight solution.Īfter an afternoon of trying out my simple Pi audio workstation, I found that it only worked as a proof-of-concept.

I sent signals from Seq24 to ALSA's inbuilt MIDI-In to trigger AMSynth. I eventually settled on the modular Seq24 MIDI sequencer to provide a "piano roll" editing interface for composition, along with AMsynth as the synth to provide sounds. Because many Linux sound applications expect JACK, my options were more limited than what I am used to on my Slackware workstation. I found straight away that JACK on a Pi was not practical. Lightweight ALSA appsĪt first, I looked at a few of the usual suspects for low-spec sound work I loaded up a few modular components and tested them out. Linux offers a lot of both, so the first order of business is to look at the options out there, and try them out on the Pi. Sequencer: a program that keeps track of what sound will play and when.So what do we need to make music on the Pi? Electronic music traditionally consists of two components: If you're not familiar with that style of interface, then go with LXDE (which is usually the default desktop on Pi distributions). If you're familiar with Fluxbox or Ratpoison, those may be the non-desktops to go with when making music. Regardless of which Pi model you use, you'll want to keep the overhead for the rest of the system as low as possible. I'll mention significant differences in performance when applicable. As it turns out, I didn't end up needing a mouse, so in the end I did do a little testing on the A+. When I set out to make my Pi into a digital audio studio, I thought I would need one USB port for a mouse and one for a keyboard. I do have access to a model A+ (256MB RAM), but it only has one USB port. I wanted to aim as low as possible, so I did all my work on a Raspberry Pi v1 model B. Turns out, it can be quite an amazing little sequencer, as long as you know what tools to use and aren't afraid to learn a little something new. Whitepaper: Data-intensive intelligent applications in a hybrid cloud blueprint.eBook: Running Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi.Getting started with Raspberry Pi cheat sheet.