This was coded by the guy who made Sculptris which was bought up by Pixologic which everyone thought they were gonna make it into a super-duper standalone Sculptris which would've been cool as hell but NO!... They incorporated it into Zbrush which was dead-dumb, neither needed the other, what a waste...
Musagi is simple, portable as well & had a reputation as a 'chiptune' composer but it's way more than that... It has a number of other internal modules but what I find best is that it has a VSTi hoster module that is actually quite good/robust... there is no option for adding FX so just use VSTi that don't need any or perhaps are modular so you can add as many internally as possible... VSTi wrapper also has pitch bend & modwheel knobs which is nice, automating them can be tricky using mouse but Musagi has a clever option of using a joystick on ANY automatible knob... I have set mine up just for using with Musagi, You can assign X or Y for any knob but only one for each you cannot assign say Y to 3 different knobs just one...
Musagi is an open grid you can place patterns anywhere like in Chaotic Music Maker or SVArTracker... You most likely will paint notes in using mouse, you can also record from MIDI keyboard in realtime but I don't like the 'auto-quantizing' which tends to chop things up in overt manner...
The text may be hard to see you can always lower your resolution or have a screen magnifier hovering over what you wanna see better... You may have problems with knobs 'skipping every other step' this is rectified by pressing the shift key whilst knob fiddling which allows every step to show...
Many other knobs on other modules can be automated but I find most automations are session only & there's a few that will save with the song so BEST to create your song fully THEN apply automations in the very last session then render... Or if you are into jingles or intros then no problem... OR one can compose however many patterns at one time for a larger project & render those out separate as you go & place them in a multi-tracker where you can move them about & then also can apply FX at that stage... Musagi will cut patterns off rigid without tails even though you may hear a tail when it's rendering & think "Oh, CRAP!!" there will be none it will be a clean loop in the output WAV...
Musagi is quite intuitive, sure, there's areas that could be better but it's solid freeware...
https://drpetter.se/project_musagi.html
Musagi is simple, portable as well & had a reputation as a 'chiptune' composer but it's way more than that... It has a number of other internal modules but what I find best is that it has a VSTi hoster module that is actually quite good/robust... there is no option for adding FX so just use VSTi that don't need any or perhaps are modular so you can add as many internally as possible... VSTi wrapper also has pitch bend & modwheel knobs which is nice, automating them can be tricky using mouse but Musagi has a clever option of using a joystick on ANY automatible knob... I have set mine up just for using with Musagi, You can assign X or Y for any knob but only one for each you cannot assign say Y to 3 different knobs just one...
Musagi is an open grid you can place patterns anywhere like in Chaotic Music Maker or SVArTracker... You most likely will paint notes in using mouse, you can also record from MIDI keyboard in realtime but I don't like the 'auto-quantizing' which tends to chop things up in overt manner...
The text may be hard to see you can always lower your resolution or have a screen magnifier hovering over what you wanna see better... You may have problems with knobs 'skipping every other step' this is rectified by pressing the shift key whilst knob fiddling which allows every step to show...
Many other knobs on other modules can be automated but I find most automations are session only & there's a few that will save with the song so BEST to create your song fully THEN apply automations in the very last session then render... Or if you are into jingles or intros then no problem... OR one can compose however many patterns at one time for a larger project & render those out separate as you go & place them in a multi-tracker where you can move them about & then also can apply FX at that stage... Musagi will cut patterns off rigid without tails even though you may hear a tail when it's rendering & think "Oh, CRAP!!" there will be none it will be a clean loop in the output WAV...
Musagi is quite intuitive, sure, there's areas that could be better but it's solid freeware...
https://drpetter.se/project_musagi.html