evanhouseman
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I notice that no one has mentioned LMMS. I've been thinking about recommending it to a friend who runs Kubuntu. Has anyone here had any experience with it? The spec looks good, but how does it compare to any of the commercial DAWs?
Worked with LMMS for about a year on windows xp. For the big fat price tag of $0.00 you get an introduction to midi music creation. Search out a few free sf2 files and you're in business. The only negative side is there is no live recording capabilities – at least in the version I had, (maybe they added that, I don't know.) You have to export your tracks as .wav files to audacity if you want to add guitars or vocals. Or the other way around, import the .wav files from audacity; but I found that was a little trickier to sync everything up and edit.
If you listen to the recordings in the LMMS groups, you'll notice it has a very distinctive sound you can spot a mile away.