[LAU] FOSS DAW recommendations

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Thu Nov 16 13:49:29 UTC 2017


Kjetil Matheussen
<k.s.matheussen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

>  James Harkins:
>
>>
>> Asking which DAWs are good, especially for mixing, audio editing and
>> stability.
>>
>> I'm not a heavy DAW user. Most of my work is electronic music live
>> performance with SuperCollider. Because my usage is rare, I've shied away
>> from Bitwig, and even Ardour. I use SuperCollider a lot, and I pay for it
>> by answering support questions and contributing. I don't want to pay money
>> for something I'll use, oh, maybe 10-15 hours in a whole year.
>>
>> I've had bad experiences with qtractor crashing.
>>
>> Never used the non- suite.
>>
>> I installed Rosegarden at one point, but never kicked the tires for audio.
>>
>> Did I miss anything?
>>
>>
> I found Ardour a lot more intuitive and easy to use than reaper or audacity
> (which I recently compared it against:

I find Ardour has a nice interface talking to its users, but the users
get an awful interface for talking to Ardour.

-- 
David Kastrup


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