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?

    • Zoop@beehaw.org
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      1 day ago

      It’s been a while since I’ve had the money/equipment/etc, so this may be out of date information, but there at least used be Ubuntu Studio, too. But nowadays I see a lot of hate for Ubuntu/Canonical, so who knows. Just thought I’d mention it in case it’s helpful to anyone!

      (Someone already mentioned Ardour… I think there was Reaper, too, but I could be mixing up my OSes lol. My brain is trash, my apologies)

  • cafuneandchill@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I occasionally make MIDI covers, so I use Rosegarden for actually transcribing MIDI songs and Sonic Visualizer to figure out the exact notes used in the original tracks. I’ve also messed around with Reaper, FL Studio and various music trackers (SunVox, MilkyTracker etc)

    If you play guitar, you might like tuxguitar for doing guitar notation. It does both music sheets and tabs

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      Sonic Visualizer to figure out the exact notes used in the original tracks.

      Does it have any specific functions for this that applications like Audacity or a DAW don’t have, or did you choose it for other reasons?

      • cafuneandchill@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I used to use a similar piece of proprietary spectral analysis software called SpectraLayers; after switching to Linux, I wanted to move to something open-source. So, I’m just used to that kind of workflow. I mean, Audacity also has an option to display a melodic scale spectrogram, but it’s rather awkward to use, and I don’t believe it ever giving an option to see the pitch of a specific note.

        Whereas, Sonic Visualizer lets me do this:

    • fragmentedjellyfish@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I have also been interested in exploring more open source tools for music. I used to produce a lot in ableton but want to use exclusively linux. Bitwig seemed interesting but it is not open-source… I may try Reaper or Ardour but they seem kind of blocky for my workflow(maybe I am wrong though). Anyone know what would be the closest open-source daw to something like ableton?

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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        6 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.

  • Unquote0270@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Sometimes Ardour. I use a neural amp modeller made by the guitarix dev (can’t remember if this is the exact name) along with files from tone3000. LSP plugins, Vital synth, and a bunch of other plugins. I’ve been looking at opendaw which recently added tone3000 support which is pretty cool but it didn’t really replace bitwig for me, interesting tool for collabs though.