Linux DAW Recommendations
Users discuss and recommend Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) such as Bitwig, Reaper, Ardour, Ableton, and Logic, with a strong emphasis on Linux compatibility and alternatives to mainstream options.
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Have you tried Bitwig? I haven't but I believe it does address a few of these things
It's way more likely to be ableton, reaper or logic now.
Have you tried bitwig? It's fairly new and seems to do alot of things right.
Check out Bitwig (https://www.bitwig.com/), it's awesome (started by previous Ableton devs)
Any reason why you don't want to use Bitwig Studio? It's pretty much the same workflow.
Looks like it’s Ardour DAW https://ardour.org/
surely OP was referring to a DAW that didn't require Flash
I digitized my studio a few months ago and settled on Reaper (running on kubuntu 20.04). I'm pretty happy with it, though Linux support is "beta" and support is forum based (there's a couple bugs that I'm just living with because nobody's engaged on them in forum posts).I probably could have gotten away with Ardour for my needs (recording, editing, mastering) - however, I can run Reaper at lower latencies (via Jack configuration) than Ardour. Mixbus seemed promis
It already exists. It's called Ardour. Paul, the main developer is quite active on HN.
I use ableton in linux, it works fine. What works amazing is Bitwig, which you'll find is like Ableton evolved, by some of the original developers of Ableton.