Advice wanted on selling/trading Max for Axoloti for setup

#1

Hi, new to the forums here but not new to forums. :stuck_out_tongue:

I love Max (I have version 8 standalone), so nothing about it really irks me except I will have to invest a fair amount of cash to upgrade my PC, then to Abelton Standard or Suite and maybe a Push 2 in order to get good hardware control of my patches. There is Midi Fighter/Faderfox/etc but it doesn't seem to be the same. That's the only thing really....Also, I would love to enventually get off Windows for music making and switch over to Linux. I was a Linux user for years until I had to swtich to Windows b/c of Ableton, etc....

So I started to looking at alternatives that weren't super expensive and found Axoloti....anyone have similar experiences and made the switch? Or they happy with it? What are some of the things they are not happy with, as far as the switch? Also, anyone do this that didn't have DIY experience w/ making cases, etc?

Figured this was the only place to ask this type of thing...

#2

not to push you away from axoloti, it's great, but have you looked into bitwig on linux and puredata?

#3

Hmm, no I haven't. I will check that out today well. In fact, I have an older PC w/ Linux on it so I might try it there first. YOu can use PureData as a plugin with Bitwig? I will look into it. Thanks! :+1:

#4

Wow, I think so....this would be a great route to go then. thanks lokki

#5

Found this one yesterday:

SynthLab

Open source Reaktor clone. As a projucer project, works on Win/OSX/Linux. Compiled it yesterday on Ubuntu 18.04.

Promising!

Wim

#6

My 2c:
I'm a hardcore Gnu/Linux user. I made a ton of PD patches, mostly effects, looper/sampler things etc, and I played a lot with INGEN (a nice tool with wich you can host plugins and add some extra magic) but I never felt confident enough to use them live, with a fairly new laptop and a realtime kernel I had a decent but not satisfactory latency vs stability ratio. I play instruments through those so low latency matters a lot, maybe not your case? 3 Axolotis + some class compliant usb controllers and a lot of hard but very fun work did the job for me perfectly! A Pc-less setup that fits in a small suitcase and never let me down. Of course there are limitations, for my use case more about memory than cpu power but generally I couldn't be happier, my live setup weighting one tenth of what it used to be with hardware and being designed for my specific needs. BTW I never made a real case for it, I have the 3 axos bolted with plastic screws to the bottom of a recycled plastic box with all the cables connected going out of a single hole...

#7

if you want low latency and pd linux check out bela or pisound.