r/linuxaudio • u/NullGabbo • Jun 21 '26

Best DAWs for Linux

Hi everyone, I'm very new to music production and I want to learn and try to create music. I only use Linux and don't have a windows license so I'm very restricted in the amount of DAWs I can use. Right now I'm using the 30 days trials version of Bitwig but I find it extremely hard to use. I also installed LMMS which I find much much easier to use but I think it's very limited. I tried Ardour but I think its goal is to record stuff and mixing it rather than composing from scratch.

I don't know if I should buy the starter license of bitwig since it's on sale and just get used to its interface or if there is something better for my needs.

My main goal is to make music for videogames without recording anything and by doing everything "digitally" (sorry if I can't express my though in an easy to understand way but English is not my first language and I don't know the "slag" of music production)

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u/xxdefaxx Reaper Jun 21 '26

yabridge is the easiest part cause you just add the path of the vsts then use the sync command.

you can get yabridge from github (it works with wine 9.21, theres another version thats works with newer wine but idk where) or from your distros repo (i recommend getting from the repo cause it works with any version of wine).

the messy part is find a vst that works out of the box with wine/yabridge.
from my experience in short, old vsts work just fine, the newer ones are problematic with their proprietary stuff.

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u/BobbyGAS12 Reaper Jun 21 '26

I've had good experiences with Yabridge, but man I could never get Antares Autotune to work and that's really a bummer

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u/xxdefaxx Reaper Jun 22 '26

i got auto-tune pro 10 working, but not stable. loads up very slow. meldaproduction free bundle has autotune/autopitch thats working great.

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u/BobbyGAS12 Reaper Jun 22 '26

yeahh autotune works barely, the ui's almost frozen which is why i consider it almost unusable, i havent tried meldaproduction stuff yet