Is learning music production on Linux worth it?

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Vital Landing Page

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Vital

Vital is a spectral warping wavetable synthesizer with drag'n'drop modulation workflow and animated preview of the synth's inner workings where needed. Comes with many modulation sources (including audio-rate), MPE support and FX chain.

For plugins, Windows VST wrappers work better than you might expect for free stuff, but the copy protection on commercial plugins may give you more grief than you want to deal with. There are rad native plugins like Vital that can give more mainstream stuff like Serum a run for it's money, but it's much less established so you may not find the same wealth of tutorials around. I can vouch that Kontakt can work well with wine if that's your jam.

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Reaper Landing Page

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Reaper

Reaper is a focused digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Cockos. In the creation of the software, the digital audio technology company intended to make audio editing accessible to the masses.

If Linux is valuable enough to you that you want to find workflows that fit into your larger Linux workflow there's a lot of room to do cool shit. If you want to go the commercial DAW route Reaper is extremely powerful for conventional recording and a lot of people have moved to it from protools with good things to say. Bitwig looks like a child of FL, Ableton and trackers but I've never used it. Renoise looks incredible if you want to make tracker style music with modern production values. Tracktion Waveform looks like a really fresh and interesting approach to music production based DAWs. Most of these will offer similar feature sets to the big DAWs for a lot less money. (But I only own Reaper.).

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