Back when I was a windows cuck, I used to do some music production as a hobby on FL Studio. I'm getting the urge to start again, but now I am on Linux. What are my options? I need a DAW that a) can handle vsts (I have purchased many synths and other stuff), b) can handle samples from splice and c) can handle midi keyboard
Is there anything like this on Linux, preferably open source, but anything will do really? Or should I install Windows on a seperate drive and boot into that when I wanna make some music? I really hate this option and would like to avoid it. I also had another crazy idea. Creating my own DAW that does the things I want, from an existing Open Source DAW. Is this even possible? How much time and knowledge would this require? I'm just a CS student.
Pretty much the only DAW there is on Linux is LMMS, you could probably run FL Studio in wine though
Andrew Murphy
Reaper
Jack Carter
everyone itt is wrong. bitwig runs native and is made by ex ableton engineers. vsts are generally platform specific in a lot of cases but bitwig supports vst none the less
Bentley Howard
daws are all fucked up on linux due to vst's, I'd honestly recommend to not even bother trying to get everything to work.
Adam Barnes
LMMS all the way
Hudson Garcia
None. Avoid Linux for DAWs. It's a mess and nothing works.
Anthony Cooper
Dual boot or use VMware PCI Pass through or even wine
Jayden Martinez
FL Studio in Windows VM Unfortunately, despite how good Linux is, it's lackluster in the software availability department
Liam Murphy
just dualboot.
Jason Jackson
Reaper recently released a linux version
Jaxon Murphy
Ableton 10 works completely fine on Linux too through wine. The only real problem now are VSTs.
Justin Murphy
Music production is one area where Linux has poor software support. Sure bitwig runs natively, but there aren't any VSTs. Just dual boot.
Anthony Powell
>What is tracktion >What is reaper >What is bitwig
Parker Sullivan
ardour. lmms cow plugins
Easton Parker
they all suck
Nicholas Watson
can't dualboot really. the way I do things is I do multiple things at the same time. E.g. I type a bit of code, then swap to Jow Forums and post something, back to coding, then I swap to DAW maybe add a few notes, then swap to writing a bit of the essay I have due next week, then back to Jow Forums etc etc. dual booting would kill me. Plus I have no intention of infecting myself, my machine or my music with windows cancer. If people aren't willing to make their software available on linux, then so much the worse for them. It's not like my life depends on using their shit. what's the difference between ardour and lmms? seems I am going to use one of these two. and they both are open source so I might learn something in the process. these cow plugins sound pretty good btw.
Don't make music on GNU/linux unless you use mostly hardware instruments.
Liam Gray
im running FL through wine and all my vsts work absolutely fine except quite a lot of text is missing have Maudio vst suite working fine, all fruity vst work fine overall the experience is quite buggy, issues with reg file but i think that is my fault and someone not as much of a linux noob wouldnt have an issue, FL has always been buggy for me even on windows but using xubuntu it actually performs a lot better on the piece of crap laptop im currently using going to check LMMS though as its so far the best (and only?) completely free daw ive found
Tyler Rivera
>If people aren't willing to make their software available on linux, then so much the worse for them
I guess they won't get any of the 0 dollars you were willing to spend on their software.
Ryder Brooks
VSTs are the one thing missing from Linux. Theres ways you can bridge them over, but it doesn't always have good results. Theres FOSS vsts native to Linux but I've only found one so far worth using (Dexed) Fortunately, I use hardware and samples 90% of the time so the transition was easy for me to make.
>What is tracktion Mess of a UI, no way to undo plugin changes. Changes standard shortcuts and UI designs just to be different. >What is reaper Good >What is bitwig Good but feels like its in a permanent beta status. Devs like adding all these new toys but ignore basic functionality like comping, GPU rendering, track freeze, etc.
Gavin Gonzalez
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Nathaniel Barnes
>It's not like my life depends on using their shit. and their lives don't depend on you using their stuff. sounds like a win win.
Levi Cooper
Retard
Aiden Perez
FL Studio is based. I have used it since I was 13.
Ethan Phillips
t. Erik Arbores
Liam Morgan
no, its t. guy who never made it past a useless hobby and a soundcloud account its fun but it will never make me money
Ethan Fisher
i remember using a pirated version of this on windows xp
Your distro should also have lv2 and ladspa plugin packages or collections in its repository, make sure you install those, they'll generally cover most of what you need for utilities and effects. The amount of stability you'll get with Windows-native VSTs will also vary with WINE and a bridge like airwave; you could try setting up a virtual machine with Windows and piping audio or midi data over network using JACK and a VST host on Windows. Better yet would be having a separate rig running Windows natively and then piping audio/midi data from that.
Jose Harris
Do you have ms corefonts installed? Might solve your missing text issues.
Charles Gonzalez
That's the only reason I keep Windows on my PC.
I have installed FL Studio on Linux and it barely works. I can't easily install some VSTs and I have issues with sound and latency. And LMMS sucks too.
Joshua Williams
Try Ardour, it has a native version for each OS
Adrian Perez
FL Studio runs on Android Linux
Ethan Turner
Just use Renoise, the most autistic DAW of all time (2nd being datamax)
Try Zynaddsubfx and Helm if you want some more instruments. I'm working on some new chiptune-type instruments too which I may release soon.
Ardour is subscription based and they make a good amount of money so there absolutely is proof that Linux users will pay for things. Stop buying into the Microsoft FUD.
