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Le Berger

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lightweight software for the travelling man
« on: April 25, 2011, 10:09:05 am »
I'm leaving home for work for the week, and I'll be on a laptop running Windows 7.
The usual software on my desktop isn't compatible with that, and the laptop is not my computer either.

Do you guys know of any fun apps, lightweight and so on? Preferably free as this is not my main computer and I will delete the apps afterwards. I won't be able to actually record anything, no MIDI controller on hand, etc. so it has to be able to generate sounds of its own or use samples.

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Re: lightweight software for the travelling man
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2011, 11:12:44 am »
in this cases my first guess is always renoise.
it's cheap, you can install as many instances as you like, on basically each relevant operating system. your license is not coupled to a computer or dongle.

it's a tracker, you may like it or not, BUT even if you don't like trackers it may be usefull:
it has a neat little sampler and wave editor for samples built in, and it can host vst plugins and instruments (which you can sample then). and you can play it with your qwertzy keyboard (sounds pretty useless, but in fact it's a feature one will really value high when no midi keyboard is available).

make some sounds, edit some loops, whatever, play around and then export as wave file for later fun at home.
« Last Edit: April 25, 2011, 04:58:31 pm by haesslich »

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Re: lightweight software for the travelling man
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2011, 04:19:17 pm »
+1 for renoise! will work really well on most any recent laptop.

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Re: lightweight software for the travelling man
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2011, 03:18:54 am »
I think that both Plogue Bidule and Audiomulch run fine if you do not want to get used to a tracker interface like renoise. Both have free trials.

If you are feeling adventurous maybe also try ppooll. (cpu depends on what you do.)



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Re: lightweight software for the travelling man
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2011, 09:59:27 pm »
so much work to get done here that I barely get to caress my guitar for even 20 minutes a day...

but i'm definitely taking notes of the suggestions, seeing as most of these are so accessible & cheap too, i love that.