I can’t speak well enough of qTractor: it has a nice and intuitive UI, it does MIDI and Audio, it supports many different plugin formats, both instruments and effects (VST 2/3, LADSPA, DSSI, LV2), and it supports many forms of audio manipulation including time stretching and pitch shifting. If you’re looking for an open source DAW in my opinion it’s the way to go https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/
Open-Source Music Production Tools
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Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools
#12Hello! I'm the author of this page. I realize that a few tools might be missing. Happy to hear all suggestions. In the meantime, if you want this list in Google sheet, you can make a copy of this one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YfVyZHy83WHIiZmQJwHh...
Some notes, hope this is useful.
- Why are helm and dexed called "sequencers"? They're synthesizers. You're missing a massive collection of open source synthesizers, effects units, and so on. Indeed you don't even have this as a category, or some common ones are put under "sequencers".
- You're also completely lacking open source patch editors, arduino and related MIDI tools, and so on.
- And ... you have supercollider but not PD? Not csound? Etc.
Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools
#13One of the reasons I haven't been able to fully commit to Linux on the desktop is that I haven't been able to find quality music production tools. I always end up going back to macOS because I miss Logic Pro X and Ableton Live too much. Also the audio routing in macOS is so much easier than any other operating system I've encountered. I would love to hear about music studios using FOSS.
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#14This is great. Does anyone have an equivalent list for design and illustration software?
I don’t have a link to a comprehensive list but my personal suggestions are:
* GIMP for photo editing
* Krita for freehand drawing and for CMYK support
* Inkscape for vector images
* Scribus for desktop publishing (booklets, flyers etc)
* Blender for 3D graphics (modelling/rigging/animation) [1]
* Blender for 2D animation [1]
* Blender for video editing [1]
* Blender for compositing [1]
[1] Basically Blender is expanding in fields that are outside of 3D graphics and I believe that over time it became the best alternative in those fields.
Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools
#15VCV Rack, anyone? https://vcvrack.com/
Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools
#16One thing missing from this list -- and pretty much any mention of open source music tools for some reason -- is OpenMPT: an open-source Windows-based tracker with full VST support. It runs great under WINE.
It's a tracker, and not a sequencer-style DAW, but unlike every other open source DAW, it is battle-tested, non-beta non-alpha post-1.0 release software, and capable of producing commercial-quality music.
Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools
#17I'd love to see more synthesizers on the list, and more open-source synths in general. MIDI controllers and SBCs are plentiful and cheap enough that you can do some really amazing custom rigs, but the sound generations options aren't there yet.
Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools
#18VCV Rack, anyone? https://vcvrack.com/
Sadly running it as a DAW won't be open source.
Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools
#19Schism Tracker is an SDL-based reimagination of Impulse Tracker [1]. Jeffrey Lim also made the sources of the original project available [2].
Re: Open-Source Music Production Tools
#20Hello! I'm the author of this page. I realize that a few tools might be missing. Happy to hear all suggestions. In the meantime, if you want this list in Google sheet, you can make a copy of this one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YfVyZHy83WHIiZmQJwHh...
Hello Ryan! As long as we're talking open source, can I suggest you Onlyoffice instead of Goggle Sheets? Similar functionality, but with AGPL license, and the personal tier is free as in free beer too. Here's how you doc would look if shared similarly: https://onlyo.co/32FPJAZ