LinuxMusicians

Hello, bumping this thread for a good reason: it seems that BT (Brian Transeau) uses CSound, (from his reddit AMA), as well as SuperCollider (from this interview).

Another libre program spotted in the wild: producer Madeon says his favorite VST is MDA ePiano! (source: https://old.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/ ... n/c8c2i0p/)

The legendary Roger Linn (of LinnDrum and Akai MPC fame) using Surge (GPLv3, here)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-mKyShEvKg

Starting with the premises that many hardware devices use the Linux kernel, about about an operating system based on Linux + JUCE which runs on one of Matthew Bellamy's (Muse) guitars?

https://elk.audio/audio-os/

He used it in the Simulation Theory World Tour so I guess he's a Linuxmusician too

Finally found one: Sevish! I've been listening to this dude's music for a couple of years probably and only now I discovered (by watching this video) that he actually uses KXStudio and a bunch of FLOSS programs like Amsynth, Zyn-fusion, the veeone suite by @rncbc, etc. (here is his setup)!

Also Surge https://equipboard.com/items/vember-aud ... ynthesizer

Fully unfamiliar with linnStruments, I found this EP improv by Fontaine Burnett

https://youtu.be/PWlOIDxkAO0

Surge really is a great example of open-source teamwork!

Latest album by The Real Thing is mixed in Ardour (source, seems trustworhty since you can find Graham Gallimore on the band's Facebook page and ask him yourself!)

Also, two prog rock albums on which Ben Bell from Fusion Orchestra 2 worked were produced in Ardour:

Fusion Orchestra 2- Casting Shadows (source)

Patchwork Cacophony - Patchwork Cacophony (source)

porzione wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:40 pm Also Surge https://equipboard.com/items/vember-aud ... ynthesizer

Nice website to keep track of these things! I found many artists using FLOSS (or FLOSS-based) programs!

https://equipboard.com/items/zynaddsubfx
https://equipboard.com/items/vital
https://equipboard.com/items/pure-data
https://equipboard.com/items/csound
https://equipboard.com/items/supercollider
https://equipboard.com/items/digital-suburban-dexed
https://equipboard.com/items/mda-epiano ... ano-plugin
https://equipboard.com/items/vcv-rack
https://equipboard.com/items/discodsp-ob-xd

what is a "big artist"? one of my bands have more than a million plays/streams on spotify, and i'm using linux exclusively..

The concept and possibility of being 'big' misses most of the worlds musicians. Assuming those
pondering the question even arrive at some consensus regarding the definition of 'big'.
Congrats on the million, it wasn't an accident or blind luck that achieved that!
Cheers

glowrak guy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:33 am The concept and possibility of being 'big' misses most of the worlds musicians. Assuming those
pondering the question even arrive at some consensus regarding the definition of 'big'.
Congrats on the million, it wasn't an accident or blind luck that achieved that!
Cheers

Well, "big" was very loose, I think. The original intent of my contributions was to backtrace: find more popular artists to "settle the issue" of FLOSS not being good enough for professional work, then add others. To me, Sevish, who is not "big" in the Britney Spears sense but is a well-respected artist in electronic and experimental music circles, kinda closes the deal, so I am for renaming the thread to "pro artists".