My Acer burned last week and is currenty sent back to check if it is still in warranty.
I now only have access to an old Acer (i3, 8GB RAM) and was wondering if anyone was aware of lightweight, stand-alone sequencing and sampling software (or super-efficient DAW?)? All I want to do is load some drum kits and try to make some grooves.
I have tried to install VCV, which was working until I logged in and it started downloading libraries
I believe most DAWs are pretty light. I ran Reason 9 (very graphic interface for a daw) on an old MacBook air 2015 with 8GB ram. Not sure how your computer stacks against that, however. I know many really like Reaper, which is open source and free to try indefinitely, and I believe that that is pretty “light” though I’ve not used it and may be wrong about that. Good luck.
You could try Sunvox ! It runs on literally anything (even old PalmOS stuff that i’m way too young to know anything about XD ) .
It’s a Tracker sequencer, but with a sort of modular twist too. It’s pretty fun even with no prior experience of trackers . A few years back, i had a really bad PC i took with me to university, and it was one of the only things i could run on it. I had a lot of fun with it.
@steven.vandorpe - i think if you lower the framerate (should be noted somewhere in the faq) and worst case the sampling rate in the settings-v1.json file to 32 or 22.05khz then even vcvrack should run well on that machine …
Buzz is an old but still good Windows based tracker that has lots of “machines” you can wire together and program sequences / songs in. Lots of ways to make beats (and more) with it.
Not sure if you’re looking for hardware recommendations but would a Teenage Engineering PO-32 / 33 or norns shield kit fit the bill? They’d do beats.
Thanks for all the recommendations. I started using Reaper and was having quite some fun using it’s built-in sampler.
However, this Acer also suddenly stopped working and does not react to anything anymore? Does anyone know if this can be caused by audio software (which seems very unlikely to me)?