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The best FOSS software for producing music?
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Have you considered LMMS? I think it's exactly what you're looking for. Extensive manual, free, open source, made for Linux, focuses on doing the basics well
Yes, but I heard bad opions about it in the past, don't remember where. Are you using it?
If you are coming from FL it leaves a lot to be desired, but it's the most similar I've seen. Definitely worth a try.
It's very much easier to use than ardour. Makes it very simple to open the piano roll and draw in some midi notes. Includes a decent amount of default samples and presets. It was good for my know-nothing-hobbyist use case. Between tutorials and the manual, pretty figure-out-able.
Ardour by contrast seems more focused on recording live instruments. I'm sure it's high quality stuff, but trying to do basic things just feels obtuse.
I haven't used it but have heard good things in the past year or two.
I'm not using it but since it's free you might as well give it a go. I've heard excellent things about Bitwig in Linux and even took it for a spin. It was nice, but no better than on Windows.
Myself, I used to use Reason on Windows, these days I'm DAWless mostly.