Like most audio engineers and musicians, you might find yourself being biased towards premium OSes like macOS and Windows and premium music tools like Cubase, FL Studio, and Ableton Live. However, the open-source world promises some extremely underappreciated and resourceful DAW and sound engineering tools.
Each of the tools mentioned below imbibes features native to these premium alternatives. Nonetheless, they let you create professional-grade sounds on Linux without spending a dime.
Read on to find out the best DAWs for Linux users.
Ardour is an open-source, cross-platform DAW that you can use for recording, editing, and mixing digital audio. You can use an audio interface to record sounds from analog instruments such as guitars, keyboards, and microphones with excellent playback quality.
Alternately, you can write or import MIDI files into this DAW platform, and engineer sounds for cinematic scoring and album/single tracks. Additionally, you can record multiple tracks, along with cutting, moving, time-stretching, transposing, quantizing, dragging and dropping audio clips, etc.
Ardour’s highly user-friendly UI will let you quickly edit your music tracks with unlimited undo/redo functions to smoothen workflows. With Ardour’s dynamic EQ, pre and post-fader, and automation method, mixing and mastering your composite tracks is less complicated and more efficient.
You can compress day-long processes into mere hours to get the desired sound engineering effect.
LMMS is a free, cross-platform DAW application you can install for sound editing and engineering on Linux. LMMS lets you compose melodies and beats, as it allows you to synthesize sounds with plugins, arrange samples for playback, and much more.
You can easily integrate your musical instruments with LMMS for recording. Alternately, you can record or write/edit using the MIDI piano-roll.
The LMMS interface has a shallow learning curve,…