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web dev here who also plays guitar. i’ve been using audacity for recording and musescore for notation but wondering what else is out there.
anyone using anything cool for practice, transcription, or just messing around with sound?
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I like to use LilyPond for transcription. It’s basically LaTeX for sheet music.
For 8-bit music, I like to dick around with MilkyTracker. It’s a tracker-style composition tool, which basically came to be in early computing days. It takes a bit to get used to, but then it’s super simple for writing a quick chiptune.
And I guess, I’ll also throw in VMPK. It allows you to play piano on your computer keyboard, similar to how lots of DAWs do.
As with any such implementation, it’s unfortunately limited by keyboard rollover, but still useful for dicking around with intervals and a jamming a bit. It can also be used as MIDI input for audio software, which doesn’t have this feature built-in.MuseScore is the best! I’ve come from Sibelius and Dorico, but the ease of MuseScore blows them away for most use cases.
For mixing, I regularly use several plugins from Airwindows, namely TapeHack, Distortion, Flutter2, Srsly2, among others. ChowDSP is also a great FOSS plugin developer. And while Reaper isn’t open source, its JSFX are, and so many of those are rad.
You may like to check out Ardour. I haven’t used it, but the Ardour users I’ve come across seem to be quite happy with it.
Ex-Ardour-user here, Ardour is good for recording/mixing and OK for Sampling-/MIDI-based workflows (powerful but clunky), but for the latter Bitwig is SO much better.
I really gotta look into Airwindows more, I’ve been put off because their plugins don’t include a GUI but the quality seems to be there. Back when I used Ardour, I really enjoyed Calf plugins (which have very nice GUIs), but they have been abandoned for years.