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cubeofcheese@mstdn.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

@VirusMaster3073 music DAWs. I think the only real option is Ardour, but I tried it and was struggling to just figure out how to create a couple instrument tracks. Could be skill issue, but honestly I'm pretty good at figuring out UIs so if I was struggling a lot with the basics, it's probably not just me. So I'm still on garageband for now which doesn't get in my way when I'm trying to make music

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RouxBru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Reaper is awesome. It is dirt cheap. Also runs on linux. But then you have the VST issue

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- cubeofcheese@mstdn.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  @RouxBru oh VSTs don't work on Linux?
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  - RouxBru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I don’t use Linux, so very limited knowledge. But there are workarounds. Apparently Yabridge works on most, but not all VSTs
    
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y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Give reaper a shot. I honestly don’t know if it’s FOSS but it runs in donations and is pretty good imo

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megrania@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Hmm I think the issue is that Ardour is more focused on recording than electronic music production … There’s more intuitive DAWs out there but I suppose in terms of what it can do it doesn’t have to stand back … compared to ProTools I’d say it’s still quite intuitive (not a high bar for sure).

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kionay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Totally agree. The DAW space is depressingly neglected as FOSS and I can’t imagine why. 15 years ago I was certain there would one day be a FOSS DAW that had the same love put into it as Blender.

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