Suddenly, a bunch of the producers I follow are buzzing about the music-mangling possibilities of Septabee, a free DAW for Linux and Windows developed "in secret" over "20,000 hours." And it looks like insane fun: a bonkers dataflow interface and "violently unfinished" early-access software available through an intentionally broken website that autoplays music and makes you hunt for the click zone like it's 1994.

There’s a cool new DAW that has a linux version. It’s really wacky! It’s not Libre but Free as in beer.

If you read the comments at the end of the article you can get more context on the development. LLMs are involved in it’s creation but I still think it’s an interesting project.

Here is video of a guy trying out Septabee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJGIw8E2BgM

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Hmm…i mean, fun, but is it good? Random generation isnt music to me. Also seems silly to use an llm (which destroys humanity and creativity and earth) to make a music program…why not just have the supercomputer make the same nonsense sounds, itll be the same thing.