[LAU] FOSS DAW recommendations

Kjetil Matheussen k.s.matheussen at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 14:26:04 UTC 2017


On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:18 PM, David L. Craig <dlc.usa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17Nov17:1309+0100, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/16/2017 06:35 AM, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
> > > >> ??James Harkins:
> > > >>
> > > >> But of the big ones, you missed muse: http://muse-sequencer.org/
> > >
> > > FWIW, I had never heard of that, so I went to check their site. Looks
> > > like no news there since 9/29/2016.
> > >
> >
> > Muse is one of the really old linux audio programs.  Maybe there's so few
> > bugs left that it's not that urgent to create new releases? I also
> checked
> > github, and it's still being developed, although not as actively as
> ardour.
> >
> > > Checked Debian Testing repository and it's not listed. Musescore is,
> but
> > > no Muse Sequencer.
> > >
> >
> > I quickly searched the internet for muse debian, and muse is present in
> > debian. Note that the package name is just "muse", not "muse sequencer".
>
> There is also MuseScore, not a DAW per se, but it focuses on producing
> standard notation from MIDI input and includes a rudimentary mixer, so
> the OP might find it useful, although its UI is not very intuitive.
>

MuseScore is the old code in Muse to edit western style scores. It was
taken out by Werner Scheer and put into a separate program instead.
Werner Scheer was the original author of both Muse and MuseScore.
Also, not everyone thinks the UI of MuseScore is unintuitive (I haven't
used it though).
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