Happy I love free software day! It snuck up on me while I was doing other projects, but here's a silly drawing I made today in Krita!
There are so many incredible projects out there which help countless people be empowered in their computing. Many thanks to all of the developers and web hosts, which allow folks like myself to stay away from proprietary and predatory corporations.
I don't have nearly enough characters, but here's several projects I've been using often. Thanks to everyone on the Fediverse (particularly Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube for me, as well as apps such as Voyager and Fedilab), KDE (especially Krita and Kdenlive), the mountain of people responsible for several GNU/Linux distros, GrapheneOS, F-Droid, Freesound, Matrix, LibreOffice, instruments using the SFZ standard (especially VCSL keys), and DAWs (LMMS, and Zrythm).
That’s really awesome you’ve been able to get so much benefit from FOSS stuff! I have as well :3
I assume you have a flashed graphene OS phone judging by the stuff you’re using? Also, LMMS? Why not use Ardour which is arguably the most developed DAW on Linux?
Thank you!
Yes, that's correct, I have a flashed Pixel 8 Pro. As for LMMS, because it was freely available to download, along with Zrythm. When I looked at Ardour last, the message I got was they were a little antagonistic to building binaries from source from the display messages, it put me off. I don't mind paying for binaries, but the scary messages about not to do it, and that they actively don't keep the build pages up to date with what you might need? Eh.
Your welcome!
That’s fair, I didn’t know they did that. How good is LMMS compared to mainstream, proprietary DAWs? And why not just install it rather than build from source? What’s the benefit there?
Proprietary DAWs? By that I have to imagine you mean FL Studio, I don't think anything really holds a candle to that, especially because I'd also have to include the myriad of propetary plugins too (even if you can technically use them with free software). I've used it to make a few simple jingles and whatnot for myself, and also to just jam on my MIDI keyboard, which is really all I need anyway. Zrythm is a bit more robust with plugin support, but the 1.0 release is certainly rough around the edges at the moment.
I do largely just install things, but I like to go to source pages, about pages, try and get a feel for the vibes, and ensure it is actually free software before I use it. It just set off a red flag and I wrote it off; maybe the software is great and there's nothing to worry about, I dunno.
Yes that’s what I was thinking of. I think that’s the case for many FOSS tools out there, but especially in music making where there’s a huge gap in open source plugins, I assume largely because the industry leaders are already established and musical software doesn’t harvest your data the same way that major search engines or email providers do, so there’s not really much of a risk using proprietary. I do wish there were a lot more though, I’m sure theres a niche market for them, only issue is most developers aren’t gonna put a ton of work into something which they won’t be able to make money on.
I guess I can get that, it does seem quite hard and complicated building from source though. I’ve checked out Ardour and it seems the best out of the FOSS DAWs, it has the most features and support. You should really give it a shot.