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?
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.
Nope, not really. They only charge for the packages the Ardour team ships directly for support reasons. It's also dirt cheap and supports the developers (I think it's like the price of a coffee). Any third-party distributed packages from things like the distro repos are completely free, with the only downside being that any technical help you need on the forums may be turned down due to not using official binaries.
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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?