Ubuntu synth

NoQuarter

Hi all,

Just a little help for a total beginner if you guys dont mind.

Im looking to record an opening bit of music for my band, just an atmospheric piece, nothing too complicated, with a sound similar to the sound that begins at 4:16 in the video below or something you would hear sigur ros do.

I'm on ubuntu 10.4 so im a bit lost as to what I can do to accomplish this. I have reaper set up but im not much use with it. Also have guitars and a PodXTL but no keys.

Is there any program that I can download and use to make a little piece like this??

Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9J4R4KYv-s

studiorat

You could start with the "Bristol" synth emulator Here
it has emulations of Moog, Prophet-5, Juno-6, Hammond, Vox DX-7 etc. excellent piece of kit.

Theres also a couple of music and media specific distros you could try. I'm playing with Ubuntu Studio and APODIO. Ubuntu studio is a little less techie.

JuneBug29

Amsynth is a good, simple and easy to use synth. If you want something with ridiculous amounts of settings, you can try ZynAddSubFX. Both are available from the Ubuntu repositories. Any time I want an atmospheric effect i use Amsynth. You can get it to randomize the parameters and you can get some interesting sounds that way and then tweak to your liking.

NoQuarter

Thanks folks, that should give me a good start. I was playing around with reaktor on a windows machine yesterday and it has a sound im looking for but how do I record from reaktor straight onto reaper through the computer? can reaper listen to reaktor somehow??

flyswatter

NoQuarter wrote: »

Thanks folks, that should give me a good start. I was playing around with reaktor on a windows machine yesterday and it has a sound im looking for but how do I record from reaktor straight onto reaper through the computer? can reaper listen to reaktor somehow??

Load Reaktor as a VST plugin inside Reaper and that should do the trick.