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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Jeremy Jongepier

 wrote:

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> On 05/12/2011 10:48 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:

>> My 10-year-old daughter has started to express some interest in music.

>>

>> Somewhat predictably (and perhaps unfortunately too) she is into pop-star house stuff: Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Taio Cruz, Katy Perry, things of that nature. I know nothing of that style of music-- other then occasionally hearing it at the gym-- and I've no idea what tools are used to get those sounds.

>>

>> She's got a rather ancient Debian ThinkPad  of her own, with a working sound card. And I've got her set up with the basics, including the zita-at1 autotuner which so far to my ears seems to be the the number 1 most important ingredient in this style of music.

>

> Hello Ken,

>

> True :) If you've ever heard Katy Perry sing live without it you'll

> understand why ;)

>

>>

>> Are there any synths on Linux which I could set up for her which are good for getting those kinds of house/techno/pop sounds?

>>

>

For an all-in-one option, Neil is pretty ideal I would say (recording

vocals could be tricky but still do-able using the record machine

plugin).
I never got my head round LMMS back in the day (but to be fair I

haven't looked at it recently). It could work, but I found the

implementation of piano roll so unintutive as to be unusable.
My no1 suggestion would be Renoise tho - if you are willing to go the

non-open route! It's a kind of industry standard for writing this kind

of music. Less temperamental than Neil (at the moment). Fantastic

piece of software, and rock solid too. Does recording vocals

super-easily.
James

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