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i personally highly recommend using bitwig studio or renoise if you can get your hands on either. they run wonderfully well on Linux and are extremely powerful

i personally highly recommend using bitwig studio or renoise if you can get your hands on either. they run wonderfully well on Linux and are extremely powerful environments for music production. renoise is a tracker more so than a traditional daw and as such requires a bit of a shift in how you approach it but otherwise it's quite lovely and not super expensive. bitwig on the other hand is a more fully featured daw and as such carries a price tag to match but it's definitely worth checking out. if price is a problem there are several other environments on Linux for composing and producing. even something as simple as lmms can be made very powerful. you can also build drum patterns with hydrogen. you can use stuff like openmuse to score music, you can download some decent soundfonts (fatboy is good, timbres of heaven is amazing) to get more juice out of your midi, etc. then if you're into generative music there's stuff like supercollider and puredata, or dsl's like sonic pi for ruby and overtone for clojure that can drive the supercollider synth. or there's even languages like chuck, all sorts of interesting possibilities for audio. anyway i guess my thesis point is there is always a way to get it done, as long as you keep at it (which it seems like you indeed have been doing so ^5)

pmoriarty 8y ago
Renoise is absolutely wonderful. I've bought it, use it all the time, and can heartily recommend it. But it's not an Ardour replacement. Some of their features overlap, but you can't do things like record long clips of audio in Renoise, while that's a core feature in Ardour. Also, the workflow for Renoise is just not something most people are used to or will want to spend the time adjusting to -- though I certainly encourage them to give it a chance, as it's great alternative to the mouse-oriented piano roll workflow in traditional DAWs. So I think for most Linux users, Ardour is going to probably be the DAW that they're most used to and the one most appropriate for recording and manipulating audio for screencasts and videos, with Renoise unfortunately relegated just to music production by tracker fans.

pmoriarty 8y ago

Renoise is absolutely wonderful. I've bought it, use it all the time, and can heartily recommend it. But it's not an Ardour replacement. Some of their features overlap, but you can't do things like record long clips of audio in Renoise, while that's a core feature in Ardour. Also, the workflow for Renoise is just not something most people are used to or will want to spend the time adjusting to -- though I certainly encourage them to give it a chance, as it's great alternative to the mouse-oriented piano roll workflow in traditional DAWs. So I think for most Linux users, Ardour is going to probably be the DAW that they're most used to and the one most appropriate for recording and manipulating audio for screencasts and videos, with Renoise unfortunately relegated just to music production by tracker fans.