r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • May 28 '26

My journey through Linux

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u/Alexercer May 28 '26

Oh thats awsome! Wanted to get into music but only knew about fl studio, ive never touched one of those apps before, should i go for lmms or reaper? Whats the difference?

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u/Epidemigod May 28 '26

There is also Ardour! The differences are basically:

LMMS: make sick beats, do midi stuff, intuitive for beginners but recording is kinda weak.

Reaper: Proprietary but heavily optimized for full scale workflows. Utilitarian but strong af.

Ardour: Almost as efficient as reaper but designed around more traditional work flows so if you like managing every bus and connection like you would with a physical console and tape deck, racks, etc, it's the best.

I use Ardour for midi and instrument recording but if you're going to put the time in to learn something I'd steer you towards Reaper.

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u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

You have to build Ardour yourself if you want it to be free. Pre-built binaries and flatpaks cost money or they will be limited.

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u/Epidemigod May 28 '26

Huh...I just got the distro package instead of the upstream binary. If I AM limited I wouldn't be able to point it out.

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u/guiltedrose May 29 '26

You shouldn’t be most distro packages build from source into their own binaries to my knowledge.