• Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There are several commercial options for Linux. The most-Ableton software out there is Bitwig Studio that has a Linux port. However, it’s expensive. The cheapest commercial solution, with a bit of learning curve but powerful nonetheless, is Reaper.

    However, if you want to go 100% open source, there’s Ardour and LMMS (which is a lot like FL Studio). Ardour 9, which is expected by the end of the year, will be more MIDI-friendly than it used to be. LMMS latest git version (offered as binary on their site) has some good new features compared to their stable version, however, there’s still no vst3 support.

    I’m an visual artist and I used Photoshop for years to edit my hand-painted scanned paintings. When I moved to Linux, and Gimp3 was out, I was finally ready to leave Photoshop behind. Some features of Photoshop aren’t there, but I was ready to leave them behind. Same with video, I used to have a rather popular blog about color grading with Resolve. I moved to kdenlive, which has none of these tools or plugins. It’s a decision that I simply had to make. I wanted to use foss tools, and that was the price to pay. I’m cool with my decision.

    If you gotta go commercial, go with Reaper. The people (a small team of 3 or 4 I believe) behind it are really cool, and they’re doing it for the love of it, their profit is very small.

  • Narri N. (they/them)@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t personally used Ableton ever but am a hobbying musician, and pro-audio is possible on Linux as well as running non-native applications via Wine. I found this just searching, there’s apparently a Discord group also dedicated to this project.

    Usually doing a web search like “xyz windows program+linux” will produce results, and putting in your distro name will produce better. Anyway, good luck on your journey!

  • pirat@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Someone in here mentioned bitwig.

    I started on abelton and moved to bitwig around 3.X and have been with it ever since.

    I love all the different modules and the grid which has give me a lot more expressive control over my sounds.

    they are similar yet different; I believe the core bitwig team were ex ableton devs who wanted to take things in a different direction.

    I know it’s silly but one of the biggest things that I like about bitwig is customizable shortcuts; this is especially good if you’re coming from ableton because if your a shortcut key wizard you can easily remap similar functions.

    if you’ve got an extensive VST collection you can run them with wine + yabridge.

    Bitwig is not the only option, but coming from ableton if you want to run single boot it is the most similar (IMO) to Ableton.

    Happy to answer any questions you may have about it as well.

  • Cricket [he/him]@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Like many others have suggested, you may want to try Bitwig. I understand that it’s the alternative DAW that is the most similar to Ableton. The company was started by a group of ex-Ableton employees, so it’s not a coincidence. Many people online feel that it’s in general a better DAW than Ableton, so you may end up liking it. It supports Linux natively, even provides an official flatpak (or Ubuntu installer?)

    It’s not as expensive as some make it out to be, and it’s on sale right now for a few more days. I just yesterday bought Bitwig Studio Essentials. They have 3 editions and Studio Essentials is the starter version, currently $79 (reg. $99). The next level up is Studio Producer, currently $149 (reg. $199), and the top level is just Studio, currently $299 (reg. $399). They also offer rent to own for $16/month for 25 months on Splice.

  • Oikio@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I am a hobbyist and was using ableton live before. As mentioned by others, unless you dual boot - try bitwig studio for similar experience. It is from people who worked in ableton. Have a trial, pirate if can’t afford now.

    Foss alternative - ardour is great, but you will have to bring your own plug in suit.

    Yabridge tool can help you to run windows vsts on Linux, but not everything works. And beware - it does not work with flatpak version Bitwig, at least it did not.