web dev here who also plays guitar. i’ve been using audacity for recording and musescore for notation but wondering what else is out there.

anyone using anything cool for practice, transcription, or just messing around with sound?

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    17 hours ago

    I think Ardour is the only open source DAW that’s actually full-featured, and IMO it’s not great for MIDI-based workflows. Huge downgrade from Ableton. That’s based on version 5, though, I last used it maybe 2021 - maybe the current version is better.
    LMMS is worth checking out, but back when I last tried it maybe 4 years ago I couldn’t get into it, the documentation was very barebones and like most DAWs it’s too complicated to go without.

    Bespoke Synth is pretty cool and actually fairly intuitive even though it’s way different from a standard DAW, watching half of the overview video on their homepage is already enough to get you going. The name is a bit misleading IMO, it’s closer to a DAW than to a synth and you can even use it as a host for other synth plugins that supports both VST and LV2 (in contrast to Bitwig, which only supports VST). It was pretty crashy for me when I was working with external plugins, though.

    Reaper is closed source.