[LAU] Re: Signal Chain Recommendations

This is food for thought, and below I have my thoughts. Before I digress my advice for "signal chain recommendations" is to pick the DAW you are going to use (I expect you have - if not my strong advice is Ardour. It would be Audacity which has a really great user interface, but has become flaky over the last few years). Then experiment with what it offers from its menus. There really are no criteria nor useful guidance for Free Software music tools that I know of. Perhaps someone will reply here, with one. More below..... On Thursday, October 23rd, 2025 at 9:28 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote: [snip] Tricky, I know. But there is a gap to fill. One very hard aspect of using Free Software for making music is all the choice, variability of quality and the lack of direction. Recording using mainstream propitiatory software has the same issues, but is matched with teaching in Polytechnics and an industry to join. Is there anywhere a place for people to be initiated into the mysteries? Myself I am interested primarily in modifying guitar signals, secondarily recording live music and thirdly in processing and editing those recordings. I have been at it in a half-hearted way for fifteen years, but I have started to get serious only in the past two, and I feel very frustrated at almost every turn. Nobodies fault, in Free Software music creation there are not the sort of training resources I see in the propitiatory world. When I go to Patchstorage it is a magnificent cornucopia of all sorts of choices, but no way to pick amongst them. Still for me I am an aging computer programmer with scientific training, I may be frustrated but I have the tools to cope. For an ethical musician that just wants to do shit, and not pay for warmed over windows and mac software (that IMO is almost all spyware of some sort now) this is very daunting They come to this to "record my voice", here is a Linux box, a sound card and a microphone. There are a hundred and twenty three options for software where do you can start??? Lastly it is important to treat people asking questions with far too little information with respect. Having to endure flaming for asking noobie questions is so very 1990s. peace Worik