Fire Apple! Pro Audio, DAW, and plugins on Linux.

A friend of mine is interested in moving his music production setup entirely to open source technology. He is tired of the DRM and other such nonsense. I am also interested.

Currently he is using Logic, and NI Komplete, and Pianoteq.

I am aware of LMMS, and it is too broken for pro usage. I’m also familiar with Ardour, but it doesn’t seem to actually support synths.

How can we create a FOSS and Linux based professional audio solution? What DAW to use? How to get plugins and such to work with them?

Have you seen this
https://forums.opensuse.org/content/161-opensuse-digital-audio-workstation.html

On 07/09/2013 06:56 AM, caf4926 wrote:
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> Have you seen this
> http://tinyurl.com/mfg524w

interesting blog, even if it does use “OpenSuSE” over and over and over…

but, a few times got it right–with “openSUSE”


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What distro(s) has your friend (and/or you) tried or actively using so far i.e. any familiarity other than openSUSE?

With openSUSE you are effectively building it from a kit. There are a small number of purpose-built distros out there, built on mainline distros , e.g. Dream Studio (ubuntu), Ubuntu Studio, and AV Linux (Debian). You can check them out via DistroWatch and pick up the links there, and it’s worth using the custom search (google) there e.g. “music distro” as you can pick up other useful links, but beware of out-dated stuff.