Interesting to see quite a few people here making music. It’s a bit telling that none of you guys posted a link to your band, so I assume we don’t have any superstars in disguise on this forum. :)

I’ve been trying to make music since I got a (relatively) fast computer in the 1990’ies (I remember there came some demo software with the first CD writer I got), but don’t hold your breath, it’s all just me fooling around with synthesizers. I don’t play a real instrument.

It started with using simple sequencers on Windows 95 (no, wait, before that I was fooling around with Cool Edit on Windows 3.1 -- what a lovely experience), then, on Linux, I moved on to trackers (like aldrin, which is now unmaintained). Lately, I began using LMMS and Ardour, both were a huge step forward. Maybe I can finally do something non-trivial. Donated a few bucks to these projects. I spend a lot of time in LMMS/Ardour at the moment. PM me if you want to hear some samples.

Both are really complex tools and not really “UNIX-y”, but audio production in general is an absolute nightmare if you try to get good results, so the tools are inevitably complex. Except for the stuff that freddie mentioned in the first posting, of course. Remember that? https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=19...3#pid15683.

Other than that, I love birds (sometimes taking care of the chickens at my mum’s place) and do blackletter calligraphy every now and then. I usually do it with real ink, but I also own a Wacom tablet and practice in GIMP, so there’s the connection to *nix.

Been trying to learn Finnish for a while now, but oof. Kirjakieli vs. puhekieli doesn’t make this easier.