Electronic Music 411 - the open source alternatives?

the open source alternatives?
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08/07/08 + greeezybear

So does anyone know of any good opensource linux DAWs/VSTs/etc.
I want to see what opensource has to offer in terms of music production.
I know of ardour, but I am not too sure what else there is.

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08/08/08 + tunalicker

switching to linux has a learning curve. ONE "quick way" might be Ubuntu and ubuntu studio which may be still evolving and improving itself. it is "packaged" as a unit for Ubuntu and a separate ISO install disc image, though I have only installed it using apt-get on TOP of existing linux. there is a learning curve. Ubuntu studio . org link - you will find ardour in the package as you already know it, that might help.

an interesting programmatic path is processing dot org. link

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edited: Aug 08 2008 + delete

reaper has been reported to run very well on linux systems using wine: link
renoise isn't open source
jamin plugins: link
ladspa plugins: link

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08/08/08 + cbit

renoise isn't open source (or free) is it?

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08/08/08 + delete

oops, sorry. definitely not open source, cheapo and pretty goodo though

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08/08/08 + delete

ok, so an open source alternative to renoise could be milkytracker: link

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08/08/08 + lilt

reaper

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08/08/08 + seanh

rosegarden is uncannily similar to cubase.

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08/09/08 + kenrestivo

The DAW isn't always the hub of a Linux audio system. Someone might live in Ableton or ProTools or Reason on a Mac or PC, but on Linux it's not so monolithic.

The Linux way is lots of little daemons and tools fitted together with a "glue"-- which is most often shell or Python or Perl in normal linux, and which is JACK in Linux audio. So you take lots of little softsynths and paste them together using JACK.

For example, I usuallly start with something simple like seq24, which is MIDI looper. Most of my stuff these days is "written" in that. For softsynths, I use fluidsynth (comand line version) and AMS and WhySynth and PHASEX and Specimen.

There are so many tools available, the best thing to do is just to try them. Since they are free, it costs you nothing to try all the tools, it's not like you have to pay for things before being able to use them.

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