Hi! Altough i'm not a great composer, I still find it relaxing, toying around with some tunes. Here's few pieces of software that really should get attention (atleast if you're a *nix fan..) Midi/Audio sequencer with great JACKit support: Rosegarden "the closest native equivalent to Cubase® for Linux" – Sound on Sound Powerful softsynth with JACKit support: ZynAddSubFX SoundFont2 capable synth with JACKit support: QSynth Easy to use award winning advanced drum machine with great JACKit support: Hydrogen Effect API which all of the above can take advantage of: LADSPA And the one that interconnects these all with sample accuracy (or thats the plan ;)) JACKit

Wow, great!

Looks like I should get to work on this, huh?

[grin].

If you need me to resurect the retired thread - PM me.

We can still edit the original posts in the necro protected stickies, other users just can't post contributions.

Cool, I'll edit it.

(btw, I've been in Austin for the last couple of days, so I haven't been around a computer)

You know, so long as this thread *is* here, I'm up for suggestions.

I still need to arrange the programs, but I've *still* yet to decide how. I'm thinking about doing it in a general order from

Notation
Tracker
Sequencer
Synth
Live
Effects

with VSTs and such at the end.

//edit. I think the Linux programs you just listed may go in a seperate list at the end.

What do you guys think about this? Kaz, Winograd, Russell, friendly forum-trawlers...

I'd like to suggest Making Waves, which is an inexpensive UK software studio with loop composing abilities and VSTi:s. Also, it works like a charm on older computers. I use mine on a PIII 500, works great.

I quite like the idea of the general ordering - there's never going to be any perfect way of organising them, and some items will invariably be difficult to categorise, but I think if each is listed under a broad category like that it should be simple enough.

Within each category, I tend to think they should be ordered from lowest price (free) to highest, and subordered based on how much information you have if there is more than one free item.

Also, on the topic of organisation, I'm also open to suggestions on the organisation of my own thread, which I've been cleaning up a bit of late, as well as of course, any additional items to include.

Oh, and marking new items somehow (I've done it in mine with an orange marker) might be helpful to those who've seen the list before and might be interested in any recent additions.

Sorry, I've been out of town and swamped the last week.

I like the orange marker for new items, I think I'll try that. And I'll do that, Kaz, stuff 'em in general categories.

I couldn't find SynthEdit - a free software synthesizer. With great sound quality. The fun thing is that one can make VSTi's; in fact, a lot of VSTi' around today, are made with SynthEdit. www.synthedit.com
Marmin.