@mntmn I'm not currently running Linux desktop, but the stack is pretty much the same since then: https://rafaelmartins.com/uses/#audiovideo-1

@mntmn tidalcycles! Runs nicely on my generation 1 mnt reform 🥰

@mntmn I've been using Linux for music creation for 20 years, so I don't know that there's much that I miss from back when I used windows. I'm pretty heavily invested in the JACK ecosystem. I tend to use ardour, fluidsynth, sox, and a collection of homegrown tools.

@mntmn I used to have fun playing with various music trackers on Linux. Renoise, Milkytracker, Schismtracker. JACK is a really cool and unique idea, and when it was around, non DAW fully embraced JACK and the unix philosophy applied to sound. I've used a fair amount of computer music tools like Csound, PD, Faust, ChucK, etc. And I've built many of my own tools, as one does.

I really miss polished tape-based multi-track workflows like those seen in Reaper and ProTools. You can move really smoothly in those. It feels an awful lot like working in a text editor like vim/emacs. I know there's Ardour, and I respect the project, but it always feels rough around the edges when I try to use it.

@mntmn MUSICOMP had good SCATRE and FORTRAN plugin support on the ILLIAC.

@mntmn these might be a little out of leftfield but

http://hydrogen-music.org/
https://filter24.org/seq24/

oh and ofc Sunvox

idk i have a soft spot in my heart for weird old stuff

@mntmn I do all my music in Milkytracker, but I am also not a very good musician

https://dustycloud.org/blog/ode-to-cleaning-robots-a-song/
https://dustycloud.org/blog/two-songs-in-milkytracker/

Milkytracker is a delight on the Pocket tho

@mntmn renoise for sure! using it since 2015-2016 (when not doing stuff with amiga+hw synths) along with pd / midinous / bespoke / etc.
i may be biased here but i love it so much..

@mntmn used renoise for like 10 years, bitwig for about 5 now, i'm a decently accomplished musician but not pro. lot of closed source plugins, unfortunately pretty important these days. this is all on x64 – haven't started the process of moving to arm or riscv, that's probably 5-10 years off for me.

@mntmn My experience with the audio software eco system was more than a decade ago. But there was a phase shortly after 2010 where I tinkered a lot with music on Linux for quite some time.

Probably tried everything available at that time in one way or the other. Worked the most with Renoise. It integrated well with JACK for my needs back then.

Stopped around the time when Bitwig was announced or even published in early versions. Always wanted to try, eventually never had the opportunity to.

@mntmn Cardinal emulates a modular, analog synth https://cardinal.kx.studio/ - precompiled for ARM64, runs on my Pocket Reform

@mntmn Favourite native softwares: Musescore & Reaper. What I really-really miss: native support for professional software instruments and toolkits like Komplete kontakt or Viena Ensemble Pro or iZotope, etc...

@mntmn #ardour and #linuxshowplayer are my favorite and most used audio tools

@mntmn I do a lot of FL Studio v12 via Wine but for goofing around I enjoy SunVox (which has a bunch of ports).

@mntmn Just simple things like effects and cropping in Audacity.

@mntmn mixxx is fun! No experience with other dj software

@mntmn i used to use FL Studio on Windows but I have yet to find a good alternative on Linux. It does not really matter though since I never made music seriously, just messing around as a hobby.