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?
Maybe this post would be better suited for [email protected] ?
I used Ardour, an entire open source DAW. Definitely more powerful than Audacity for this kind of thing, and I’m much more comfortable with MIDI notation than traditional music notation, too. I did eventually switch to Bitwig though, because I use a lot of samples and synth plugins and Bitwig’s workflow and UI for that is just a lot better than Ardour’s.
There are quite a few pretty good open source VST/LV2 plugins, e.g. ZynAddSubFX is a really powerful software synth and Dragonfly Reverb is a neat reverb. There are more, unfortunately many open source plugins are only available in LV2 format and unfortunately Bitwig doesn’t support LV2.
I’d recommend the fork Tenacity over Audacity since the latter has been hijacked by Muse Group.
Not really in use due to time constraints but i have installed pro-audio, which is a nice collection of linux compatible audio software:
