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How far can I get with open source audio production? (feddit.de)

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I'm a professional instrumentalist and I've begun tinkering with digital audio production , hoping to start a side career composing digital music.

I've been working with Linux in general for over 15 years, and I'd like to stick with it, but I'm wondering if its actually viable in the professional world. It seems like most professionals are working with Ableton or other commercial software. I'm learning and working with Ardour, which seems great, but I wonder if I shouldn't be investing my time in software that will be more useful longterm.

Anyone here have thoughts/experience with this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely check out Reaper just as a comparison. The license is essentially free and you pay to get rid of the nag screen. It doesn't prevent you from doing anything...ever! I used it like that for the first week until I realized how much I liked it. Reaper and Ardour together are fantastic.

My goal is to create music for video games.

Nice! There are so many good free virtual synths out there. If you have a MIDI controller/keyboard with plenty of knobs you'll have a blast. We were just talking about the best free synths the other day.....

Vital, Surge XT, Viking VK-1, Odin 2, TAL U-No 60. Synth1, Helm, Vital, dexed, Cardinal/VCVRack

I've tried most of these. They're all cool for their own reasons. I personally like the modular stuff (VCV) because you can make generative patches that change over time without really having to do anything. Just fiddle with the knobs and pretend like they're too hot to touch :D