MilkyTracker: The quest for the perfect music software
The last album I made was in 2013 on a MacBook using Logic Pro and Massive, a setup that cost a couple thousand dollars. Since I no longer have that machine and the software was proprietary, I no longer have access to all of that work. This has sparked a great interest in searching for a replacement digital audio suite, one that would provide a comparable workflow but also offer longevity, the ability to archive my work in a format that can be shared across platforms and improved upon. An artist should demand nothing less! What if a painter had to stop working on everything because they didn't want to use canvas from a certain company, and then none of their brushes or paints would work? That's what is actually happening in today's creative landscape, but with software. Whatever program I use must, above all else, use a standard file format for music encoding, which is usually MIDI but there are others. That way none of my work is dependent on any specific piece of ...
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