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Music producing with LMMS, mostly wanting to make jungle dnb sounding stuff

I've installed FL studio a few times in the past but didn't get really far. This time I've decided, let's actually gain some understanding of theory and tools (like synths: https://youtu.be/atvtBE6t48M) and make a little something just for fun.

I'm using LMMS because now I'm on linux and don't want to deal with wine and FL studio. LMMS is actually pretty good, and has a good selection of tutorials on youtube




This is something I've been doing a bit, but I'm more interested in music composition, for piano or symphony or similar. Musescore[1] is an amazing FOSS tool for interactively creating sheet music. It's like a WYSIWYG sheet music editor, with a virtual keyboard, playback support, and very basic mixing. I have a little background with piano (childhood) and trombone (high school), so it's been much easier for me personally to create new music by manipulating a traditional staff in Musescore than with the grid view in FL Studio or LMMS.

1. https://musescore.org/en


Take a look at Helm. It's the closest thing to Serum's UX in the world of open source synths, and it runs on Linux.

https://tytel.org/helm/downloads/


Reaper is quite a decent DAW and although it isn’t free, it’s at a reasonable price ($60 for a hobbyist license). They started to provide experimental Linux builds, so maybe it may be useful for you.


Noooice. Love jungle and dnb too. Used to produce on reason.


Check out phasex and arpage, both in Ubuntu package repos




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