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what open source tools do you use for music? (lemmy.org)
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web dev here who also plays guitar. i've been using audacity for recording and musescore for notation but wondering what else is out there.

anyone using anything cool for practice, transcription, or just messing around with sound?

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[-] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

LMMS is a fairly intuitive editor that makes it easy to build midi tracks and drum loops. Can't really record tho.

Famistudio is specific to chiptune music. I think it's a tracker. Along the same lines, there's MilkyTracker. I haven't figured out how to use them, but they're neat.

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