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.
Have you considered LMMS? I think it’s exactly what you’re looking for. Extensive manual, free, open source, made for Linux, focuses on doing the basics well
Yes, but I heard bad opions about it in the past, don’t remember where. Are you using it?
I haven’t used it but have heard good things in the past year or two.
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’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.