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.


I’ve used Ardour. It works and Unfa posted a lot of really good tutorials, but even after about half a year of using it, the clunkyness (especially for workflows that focus on samples and programming synthesizer plugins rather than recording real instruments) never really went away for me. I’m using Bitwig now, which is not open source but works great and has a good workflow.