general stability of sequencers

[urlwolf]

I'm using ardour 3 (great daw!) with triceratops. It crashes every few mins.
Trying muse 2.1, it doesn't seem to even load synths, no matter what plugin types. IRC is a ghost city.

What is the most stable sequencer? Hopefully one that has an active community.

[autostatic]

I second falkTX, so Qtractor or seq24 for step sequencing.

[tux99]

I use Rosegarden and I can't recall that it has ever crashed on me.

[urlwolf]

After upgrading to muse 2.1.1 it doesn't even start.
I'm starting to think the avg. software quality around here is on par with Chinesse umbrellas...

[nils]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[danboid]

qtractor is the most stable, and the most responsive FLOSS Linux DAW in my experience - even though the RNCBC will likely emerge to remind us its still ALPHA software, which supposedly it is but its more stable for me than a lot of programs who have long since passed 1.0.

[alex stone]

After upgrading to muse 2.1.1 it doesn't even start.
I'm starting to think the avg. software quality around here is on par with Chinesse umbrellas...

Works for me, all day every day, and it's my guess that my projects are far larger generally than most.


Alex.

[tripomatic]

I compiled triceratops v0.1.6c and load it in ardour 3 (compiled from git).
It's working like it should be.

Maybe because i compiled both against same libraries.
On Ardour site, there also problem with eq10q that some have with a beta.
I'm also the only one that has no problems till now, probably because i also compiled it
with the same libraries as ardour.
Overthere they think that crashed are caused by incompatibility or something like that(i'm no programmer)
https://community.ardour.org/node/7042

[AnthonyCFox]

Non-sequencer is super stable unless you tell it to do something it doesn't want to do, e.g. duplicate patterns or move ranges of notes. In which case it crashes immediately. So when you figure out not to do those things; it's great.

[bluebell]

I'm using ardour 3 (great daw!) with triceratops. It crashes every few mins.
Trying muse 2.1, it doesn't seem to even load synths, no matter what plugin types. IRC is a ghost city.

What is the most stable sequencer? Hopefully one that has an active community.

Rosegarden is stable enough to work with – except for recording audio files and deleting them in many cycles. That doesn't bother me since I record audio files in Audacity and import the properly cut files in Rosegarden.

[tatch]

Non-sequencer is super stable unless you tell it to do something it doesn't want to do, e.g. duplicate patterns or move ranges of notes. In which case it crashes immediately. So when you figure out not to do those things; it's great.

I'm waiting for male to push out his non-seq rewrite. The old one doesn't keep time correctly on my computer for some reason, it drifts pretty noticeably, and I also can't adjust patterns I input with my keyboard so it's sort of unusable for me at the moment. Really looking forward to the new one though (at the very least it looks terrific).

[bluebell]

I'm waiting for male to push out his non-seq rewrite. The old one doesn't keep time correctly on my computer for some reason, it drifts pretty noticeably, and I also can't adjust patterns I input with my keyboard so it's sort of unusable for me at the moment. Really looking forward to the new one though (at the very least it looks terrific).

I had a getting-faster-and-slower problem with Rosegarden. It looks as if the Linux kernel timer had a problem with Turboboost (not with Speedstep). Switching Turboboost off in BIOS helps.

[male]

I'm waiting for male to push out his non-seq rewrite. The old one doesn't keep time correctly on my computer for some reason, it drifts pretty noticeably, and I also can't adjust patterns I input with my keyboard so it's sort of unusable for me at the moment. Really looking forward to the new one though (at the very least it looks terrific).

I had a getting-faster-and-slower problem with Rosegarden. It looks as if the Linux kernel timer had a problem with Turboboost (not with Speedstep). Switching Turboboost off in BIOS helps.

This kind of thing shouldn't affect JACK MIDI, though. Of course I'd need a lot more information about the situation to get to the bottom of it. I've never had any such problem, but, of course, I'm probably using a different set of synths etc.

[tnovelli]

I second falkTX, so Qtractor or seq24 for step sequencing.

Yep, Qtractor is nice and solid. I seq24's step-sequencing (arrow keys to move cursor, MIDI keyboard to enter a note).... but Qtractor doesn't have that yet, does it?? That would be awesome.

[autostatic]

No it doesn't and it probably never will, it's a timeline-based sequencer (if that's the correct term).