In the past when I had Windows I was making beats in FL Studio and sometimes mix in Reaper. I didn’t have advanced skills but I knew how to use these tools. For right now I’m Linux Mint user and I’m looking for something open-source. I think that good choice for me will be some kind of tracker because I want to sample. What you use and can you recommend? I also need good learning resources for this tool, because as I said I’m amateur.
Yes, but I heard bad opions about it in the past, don’t remember where. Are you using it?
If you are coming from FL it leaves a lot to be desired, but it’s the most similar I’ve seen. Definitely worth a try.
It’s very much easier to use than ardour. Makes it very simple to open the piano roll and draw in some midi notes. Includes a decent amount of default samples and presets. It was good for my know-nothing-hobbyist use case. Between tutorials and the manual, pretty figure-out-able.
Ardour by contrast seems more focused on recording live instruments. I’m sure it’s high quality stuff, but trying to do basic things just feels obtuse.
I haven’t used it but have heard good things in the past year or two.
I’m not using it but since it’s free you might as well give it a go. I’ve heard excellent things about Bitwig in Linux and even took it for a spin. It was nice, but no better than on Windows.
Myself, I used to use Reason on Windows, these days I’m DAWless mostly.