Currently looking for a good DAW to run on Linux. I used Ableton Live 11 Standard back on Windows, got it running decently on Fedora with Wine, but kind of want to explore some other options.

Before I used Live, LMMS was actually what I used first while I was learning. I never did anything too real with it so I’m not honestly too sure what it’s capable of, but it also seems to be abandonware? Hasn’t been updated since 2020, what’s that about?

I’m not 100% dead set on using FOSS btw, for this anyways. It would definitely be a plus, but i’ll use proprietary if it runs well on Linux and is good at what it does. Are there any other options I should check out or look into? I’ve heard pretty good things about ardour and bitwig but don’t know too much about them.

  • ayyo@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    2 days ago

    The github repo has activity, but the last stable release (1.2.2) released 5 years ago. I’m not really interested in using the nightly build

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 day ago

      FWIW from https://lmms.io/download#linux one can get as AppImage (so nothing to build, no repository to modify) either

      • 1.3.0-alpha.1.102 alpha
      • 1.3.0-alpha.1.894 nightly

      so from what I understood you could consider alpha, not nightly.

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        1 day ago

        102 -> 894

        Come on now. I know that asking for 1.3.1 is pure madness… But can’t we get a beta version of 1.3.0 maybe?

        If the nightly version is good, just put out a new release after 5 years. Are they shooting for some milestone or something? I guess I should look into it myself…

        (Really tho I’m glad this project is still active and I’ll check out the nightly version.)

        • utopiah@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 day ago

          FWIW not only is the project alive (last commit 17 hours ago) but distribution too (cf links above) and project management too (cf e.g. https://github.com/orgs/LMMS/projects/1 as example of complex set of tasks mostly done toward a major release).

          So… I’m not going to give people working on LMMS any advice, but of course I hear you, and OP, when it shows for people who aren’t deep into it a project that seems abandoned.

          I do not know no why the project is in that state but what I hope I have shown is that for sure it’s very much active.

    • dirakon@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 day ago

      Nightly (alpha) build is pretty good (infinitely better than the “stable” build), but I’m not a professional, so I cannot say how good it works with serious projects.