Hi everyone,
Just moving from Win > macOS > Arch (in the form of endeavour, it’s amazing, I love it so far!!)
Addressed to those who love making music, what is your favorite / most functional DAW for music creation and production? Thank you so much for your time and contributions.
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LMMS is an option that does the trick for for simple projects.
Thank you!!
Ardour if you want a fully open source option. REAPER if you want a free to evaluate, cheap to buy DAW. I’ve been having a lot of fun with REAPER and it works well in the Linux ecosystem.
A lot of people recommend Bitwig for a step up beyond those two, but I haven’t tried it personally. I also think it’s Wayland only?
I would start with Ardour and see if it fulfills your needs.
Thank you!
I’m using Bitwig but I’m really excited that PreSonus released a beta Linux build for Studio One. As a former Cubase user, Studio One makes a lot more sense for me.
Once I moved from macOS to Linux I had to stop making music, because Ardour didn’t really work with the switching between pulse audio and Jack all the time and Bitwig, while really cool, was way to expensive for a enthusiast like me.
woah, don’t mind my naivety but why expensive?
Back when I tried it there was only one version, the 399 EUR one. Today they have some more https://www.bitwig.com/buy/
Ardour works fine with Pipewire and Pipewire-jack, so you no longer need to keep switching between pulseaudio and jack now. It’s pretty seamless.
Haven’t made the full switch yet, all of my music production stuff is on windows.
That being said, I’ve been a fan of Reaper for quite some time. I use it Windows. I have installed it on my Arch install on my laptop, and that should work well enough for me, if I can get my VSTs and other plugins working.
