The best FOSS software for producing music?

In the past when I had Windows I was making beats in FL Studio and sometimes mix in Reaper. I didn't have advanced skills but I knew how to use the…

Honestly keep using Reaper at least occasionally, it is the most no-nonsense professional software I have ever used and it works great on Linux. Cockos deserves your money and it is an industry leading tool!

Otherwise I would recommend LLMS.

For a leftfield option check out Supercollider!

supercollider.github.io

doc.sccode.org/Help.html

Supercollider is an elegant extremely mature open source audio programming language, it is a programming language true but it comes with a nice IDE and there are MANY plugins with GUIs that you can download and try, the point isn’t really to code so much as put all the tools of a DAW straight into your hands.

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A platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists and researchers working with sound.

SuperCollider
Supercollider looks cool, I’ll need to check this out!

Code can absolutely be intimidating and a creative block but on the otherhand a 440hz oscillator in Supercollider can be triggered with

SinOsc.ar(440, 0.6);