ask the fedi about foss and you shall receive!

lots of great replies!

gotta calm down from my gig before i respond, but thanks everyone!

@lislegaard

Ardour, for recording, arranging/editing. haven't really tried any other classic DAW, because, well.. it works and it's FOSS.

Been experimenting with Bespoken lately. Mostly to handle external sound sources, looping, etc. in a more improvisational live manner. I feel I end up using a bit too much time fooling around with software, though, which I don't like. And it's a bit unstable in different ways (for me at least).

@lislegaard Since converting to Linux last year I’ve been using @ardour where previously I used Ableton, Reason and Pro Tools (going further back in time with each).

I’m only really a novice user of any of them but I’ve found it an easy switch to make and enjoy the way Ardour works.

@lislegaard Pure data for most things on my end. I especially like writing effects with it, you can get really fun stuff.
But I use it for general sound generation and some sequencing too, it’s my main tool.

Otherwise Ardour, Calf plugins, Milkytracker…

Been dabbling a little bit with Cardinal, a VCV soft-fork that is available as a plugin.
Carla as a plugin rack for live stuff.

@lislegaard a list of tools

• #Ardour (best for recording, overdubbing, editing any audio, effects, diy mastering. i don't use it for sequencing and there's a part for triggering loops a la live, but never explored that part)
• plugins: @x42 's complete suite, especially compressor, and peak limiter, CALF plugins (where i can make them work), many included ACE plugins are great, i use H/L pass filter.., and Harrison's XT plugins (NOT FLOSS)
• #SuperCollider (sound design, livecoding, custom cue player for stage, sometimes full compositions, connecting to Processing via OSC etc...)
• #mhwaveedit - small simple single wave editor - fades, cropping, gain, etc that lets you press ctrl+s to simply save it. very fast, a bit quirky about controls, but very stable
• #ffmpeg - commandline powertoolbox for any conversion (extremely fast conversion to wav) - WinFF is nice GUI for ffmpeg (my SO uses it) (sometimes also flac, opus, lame CLI programs)
• #sox - another commandline tool to manipulate audio - i often use it to make stereo files mono quickly
• yt-dlp cli downloader of pretty much any av content online
• mixxx - amazing dj mix program, really stable and well sounding with great choice of filters and other fx. and great support for controllers
• notfloss: i still use Renoise a lot for quick beat-centered stuff

@lislegaard

I mostly use non-foss DAWs (Reaper and Bitwig), but I use a lot of foss plugins.

I really like Bespoke for performance/jamming cases, but I didn't use it a lot lately.

And PlugData is also great, but I barely scratched the surface of it and I mostly use it for prototyping stuff I plan to reimplement in other ways.

@lislegaard My favorite FOSS would be Ardour. I use it for recording, mixing and "mastering". I put mastering between quotes because it's basically just a compressor and a limiter on the master bus in my case. I use Ardour with a lot of plugins, LSP and x42 are in my favorites list. This runs on Debian, I consider that also one of my favorite FOSS.

#Ardour #LinuxAudio #Debian #Linux #FOSS #Music #HomeRecording

@lislegaard

I use #Ardour for producing all my tracks, #Carla for testing and experimenting with plugins, #SurgeXT & #NoiseMaker as synths, various stuff by brummer10 (#guitarix, ratatouille, ...) and #NAM and #Aida for guitars, #LSP plugins for IRs and samplers etc. #x42plugins for EQ and MIDI processing, #Cardinal for sound design & a lot more #FLOSS tools and plugins.

Expanding the scope of the question, I use #FAUST and #DPF for writing my own plugins and use them in a lot of my tracks.