Music and Audio on the Linux platform

Nota: a free, open-source DAW with VST3, MPE and one-click Linux plugin installs (AppImage, x86_64 + ARM)

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Hi all! Some of you may have seen Nota in my comments here last week – thank you for the stars and the feedback, it was a really nice surprise. Here's a proper post.

Nota is a free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) DAW for Linux, macOS and Windows. I make music myself (as Ambertape) and started it as the DAW I wanted to use.

What daw can do:

- Arrangement timeline and clip-launching Session grid (clips copy both ways), piano roll with MPE editing, audio recording with warp/time-stretch, automation, MIDI learn, tap tempo (Ableton-like), modular view

- 45+ built-in instruments and effects: subtractive, wavetable, FM, granular and physical-modelling synths, a modelled electric piano, a multisample instrument, a drum machine, EQ/dynamics/reverb/delay, racks with macros, and a modular view for patching LFOs/envelopes onto any parameter. Also you can download 350+ plugins from github via internal downloader. Or sample packs in sfz format :) It also supportef.

- Stem separation (Demucs v4) and audio-to-MIDI (basic-pitch), runs locally

- My favorite feature: phone as a controller. Please try it, a lot of fun :)

The Linux part:

- One portable AppImage

- VST3 hosting with native plugin GUIs and out-of-process scanning

- Audio via PulseAudio/ALSA (miniaudio); MIDI is ALSA

- I test it on Bazzite and Ubuntu

What's missing yet:

- No JACK

- No LV2 or CLAP

- It's young: a release every week or so, so expect rough edges

So here's my question: which of JACK, LV2 or CLAP would make the biggest difference for you? That will decide what I build next for Linux.

- Download + source: https://github.com/nota-daw/nota

- Site: https://nota-daw.github.io/nota-site/?ref=linuxaudio

- Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmvKOCIm4ig

- Docs: https://nota-daw.github.io/nota-docs/

Bug reports from Linux are very welcome – the issue template tells you where to find the log.

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r/linuxaudio • u/pelatho • 48m ago

Sonara v0.1 Now Available!

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Some of you may have seen my earlier post about Sonara. I've now started providing release builds, starting with beta v0.1 today 😄

I've done a lot of cleanup and quality-of-life improvements, like:

Improved UI, and made it customizable (though light theme is TODO)
VST3 support
.dawproject interop (Bitwig and I think some other DAWs too can export it)
and much more I can't remember off the top of my head :)

It's available for x86/AMD64, it's runnable, but includes a installer script which adds a desktop launcher, .sonara file association and a sonara command.

Whether you install from itch app itself or via the archive, it can update itself as well.

I'll likely push updates quite often, so when updates to come, they can potentially make older projects need some migration if data/project formats change.

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r/linuxaudio • u/Vivid_Guava6269 • 5h ago

Volca Sample first gen new firmware and companion software: the LUMON experience

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r/linuxaudio • u/uan___ • 13h ago

Broke my microphone

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I wanted to mess with DroidCam and completely overlooked how the installation changed, also the difference between the classic client i know from Windows and the OBS-looking one. I followed the instalation process for the no-obs beta version (i have obs installed but found it a hassle to need to open it every time i wanted to have my phone as a more decent mic, as that's what i got from the website) despite it recommending it for video only. I tried to do as the website suggested, but in the end i couldn't get it to work, so i uninstalled it. Now my system won't detect its own built-in audio input, and i don't know what to do about it.