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Comment by ⛰️ murdock

Re: "Is there any good music making software that's fully..."

In: s/music

orca is a very cool way of visualizing & structuring musical ideas. it has a built-in synth you can use, or it drives an external piece of hardware or software.

— orca

⛰️ murdock

2023-06-12 · 5 months ago

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☕️ johan

sonicpi comes to mind. It is more of a performance tool where you declaratively "code" your music.

— https://sonic-pi.net/

2023-06-13 · 5 months ago

🦋 yvonne

+1 for Orca (wonderful thing); also maybe check out Tidal Cycles. This are both predominately text based; don't think I'm aware of 100% keeb driven music tools that are mainly graphical, unfortunately...

2023-06-26 · 4 months ago

🐦 wasolili

I've used Tidalcycles with the vim plugin for completely mouseless jamming. If you're looking for something more DAW-like, I'm not aware of any. Reaper's custom actions are pretty powerful and you could probably get a mouseless setting pretty far with them.

2023-07-05 · 4 months ago

🚀 jjfleck

renoise is a very well maintained but inexpensive tracker that can be controlled entirely with a keyboard.

2023-07-18 · 4 months ago

😺 Nono

Well, there's the incredible SonicPi of course! I'm pretty sure you can do everything in it, without having to use the mouse...

2023-10-19 · 2 weeks ago

😺 Nono

Oops, sorry... Didn't see that someone had already recommanded SonicPi

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Is there any good music making software that's fully accessible only using a keyboard? (The typing kind, I mean.) I can't use a mouse, and I can emulate one in a pinch, sure, but I'm curious if there's anything like what I'm describing out there. Preferably with Linux support, but I'll take what I can get. I’ve never learned proper music theory, I just want to noodle around and see if I can make cool sounds :)

💬 mouseless · 7 comments · 4 likes · 2023-06-11 · 5 months ago