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Reaper is absolutely amazing, works on Linux just fine (natively! And supports LV2 plugins) and it's only $60 (and the demo version is a WinRar-like "I'm still

by pta2002 6y ago

Reaper is absolutely amazing, works on Linux just fine (natively! And supports LV2 plugins) and it's only $60 (and the demo version is a WinRar-like "I'm still using it" button). It's also a completely no-bullshit approach to software development, no subscriptions, nothing like that. Buy the license once, and upgrade to a commercial license (which is still less than the price of something like Ableton or Logic) if you are using it to make more than something like $20k. It's proprietary, but it's completely customizable, even coming with its own scripting engine. I think you should give it a shot, GPL is the only thing missing from your list of requirements, but it's also made by a small independent team that doesn't do the usual crap associated with bigger apps. A good alternative to JACK and PulseAudio is PipeWire, which for me has worked basically completely flawlessly and supports JACK and PulseAudio bridges natively.

gnulinux 6y ago
Sounds good, I'll check it out. I was mostly giving DAW as an example though, same would go to any kind of specialized software. EDIT: unrelated but, from Reaper purchase page: > If you own multiple computers, you may install the same license key on all of them, as long as you only use REAPER on one computer at a time. I love this, let's not pretend people have a single computer. A have multiple linux workstations, and an OSX workstation. As long as it's me, the person who bought it, is using the software on different machines, I should be able to get away with single license.
- pta2002 6y ago
  > I was mostly giving DAW as an example though, same would go to any kind of specialized software. Yep, I'd absolutely love a real Photoshop competitor made in a similar spirit to reaper. Photoshop just has too many niceties that something like gimp doesn't even come close to (one that comes to mind is Select Subject - has probably saved me hours of work and does a much better job than I ever could manually) > > If you own multiple computers, you may install the same license key on all of them, as long as you only use REAPER on one computer at a time. > I love this, let's not pretend people have a single computer. This is what I meant by no bullshit licensing, it's really refreshing to see a professional and competitive product be this way when it comes to user freedom. I'd like it to be open source, but this is probably the next best thing. Just a shame that most audio plugins don't follow the same philosophy, otherwise I'd happily be using just Linux for music production (though you can at least make most windows-only plugins work on linux through wine)
tpoacher 6y ago
Commenting as a reminder to follow this up :)

gnulinux 6y ago

Sounds good, I'll check it out. I was mostly giving DAW as an example though, same would go to any kind of specialized software. EDIT: unrelated but, from Reaper purchase page: > If you own multiple computers, you may install the same license key on all of them, as long as you only use REAPER on one computer at a time. I love this, let's not pretend people have a single computer. A have multiple linux workstations, and an OSX workstation. As long as it's me, the person who bought it, is using the software on different machines, I should be able to get away with single license.

pta2002 6y ago
> I was mostly giving DAW as an example though, same would go to any kind of specialized software. Yep, I'd absolutely love a real Photoshop competitor made in a similar spirit to reaper. Photoshop just has too many niceties that something like gimp doesn't even come close to (one that comes to mind is Select Subject - has probably saved me hours of work and does a much better job than I ever could manually) > > If you own multiple computers, you may install the same license key on all of them, as long as you only use REAPER on one computer at a time. > I love this, let's not pretend people have a single computer. This is what I meant by no bullshit licensing, it's really refreshing to see a professional and competitive product be this way when it comes to user freedom. I'd like it to be open source, but this is probably the next best thing. Just a shame that most audio plugins don't follow the same philosophy, otherwise I'd happily be using just Linux for music production (though you can at least make most windows-only plugins work on linux through wine)

tpoacher 6y ago

Commenting as a reminder to follow this up :)