• XPost3000@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 days ago

    If you want to do any loop and sample work FOSS style, then I’d highly highly recommend Bespoke Synth, easily the best FOSS modular DAW out there

    It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you’re over it then it’s a pleasure to use and easily the best open source DAW I’ve used so far (and I’ve tried alot)

    Biggest thing it has over LMMS: VST3 support, so you can actually use modern synth plugins like Surge XT, or dynamic EQ plugins like ZL Equalizer, or lo-fi plugins like CHOW Tape and MAIM

    Although, there is a FOSS workout to get VST3 working in LMMS using KV Element, which you can load as a VST2 that itself can run VST3’s.

    I use to use that before Bespoke but it was very much a workaround, and I had this infuriating annoyance where KV Element would just send pitch-wheel signals to everything and detune my synths without me knowing, and I could not find any reason or fix, so I just stopped using LMMS in favor of Bespoke

    Hope this helped!!!

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      Bespoke looks really interesting, but I don’t know if my mind could work that way. I’m a project manager, so seeing the entire song is the only way I think i could work. I’ve just recently become used to working with nodes in Davinci and I still prefer not to use them.

      It definitely helped to see what is out there, thanks for the great write up too.