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Posted by RJT on Jan-30-2005 13:53:

Freeware Production Software?

I've just been reading a bit up on James Holden and it sounds like he basically used public domain freeware to produce/remix a lot of his work... anyone know of any decent production freeware?

I'm hoping to start doing some of my own production/remix work, and I'll probably shell out the loot for some pro software too, but I really dig HOlden's sound, so I figured I try to give that a shot first, see if I can come up with any of the progs he used and try to do something with it.

Any help is appreciated, as always.

Peace, Cheers,

RJT

Posted by Jake Conlon on Jan-30-2005 14:36:

James Holden uses a program called buzz

heeres a link to the best buzz resource on the net

http://www.buzzmachines.com

Posted by RJT on Jan-30-2005 15:00:

This looks like a great piece of software, with one MAJOR flaw...

NO MAC SUPPORT!

How can you have a program to create/produce/edit audio and not release a Mac version? Windows bites for music production in general...

Anyone got a decent freeware prog for mac, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Cheers,

RJT

Posted by tu_face on Feb-01-2005 12:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Nou
wrong tree, and more importantly wrong forum.

not any more

Posted by RJT on Feb-01-2005 16:44:

quote:
Originally posted by Nou
wrong tree, and more importantly wrong forum.

Wrong tree I'll accept, but wrong forum? DJ's can't be producers now?

Sorry if I misunderstood, but I figured DJ discussion would encompass all aspects of being a DJ, not just the "What should I use to mix?" questions...

RJT

EDIT: BTW, still looking for that Mac software :-) Don't make me resurrect the Dell from the recesses of my closest...

2nd Edit: Obviously I didn't note that this has changed forums.. my bad... point still stands ;-)

Posted by Zombie0915 on Feb-01-2005 19:13:

the renoise tracker has a mac version I think.
www.renoise.com

It isnt 100% free, but the program that they give you isnt handicapped in any ways except you can't use ASIO or render your song into a wav wihtout registering. But even then, you can still make a sound file by just using a cable to record it while its playing in the program, and if your looking for freeware I doubt that you have equipment that uses asio drivers anyway.

There is alot of "tracker" music software that is free, and some of it works on the mac. There is actually a whole separate and more computer oriented and grossly male dominated scene that revolves around tracker programs.

there is another one called modplug that is open source, maybe it compiles on a mac, not so sure.

Check out renoise, I think the tracker style of music making is a very fun way to sequence, not to mention how much more affordable it is.

You are still going to need to track down samples and (some)effects. trackers dont ususaly have synths and stuff bundled with them, but they (mostly)support vsts these days.

Posted by djdustx on Feb-03-2005 01:25:

google search 'Kristal' is a fre prog similar to Cubase and FL Studio...more on the cubase side

sebasano