Like Massive, the modulation is fairly flexible. 12 different oscillator waveforms are available. It has one of the more polished and visually pleasing UI’s when compared to other open source plugins. Helm is an open source synthesizer available in nearly every DAW plugin format. It’s a wavetable synth with a multitude of flexible modulation options. Massive has been an ubiquitously used staple of electronic music production for several years now. IR’s are supported via the Convolution Reverb unit, much like they are supported in Guitar Rig via the Reflektor rack unit. There is a virtual rack where devices can be stacked up to build your Rig. The workflow for assembling a rig is strikingly similar to Guitar Rig.
Guitarix is the most equivalent to these software packages and has arguably the best GUI of all the open source alternatives available. This is what I use in Windows, but there are many others out there such as Amplitube, Postive Grid Bias, POD Farm, Helix Native, etc. Guitar Rig is a virtual amp simulator from Native Instruments. This means there is no need to export change your session and export WAV files when you alter your drum pattern. You can sync the transports of Hydrogen and your DAW of choice(such as Ardour). It will allow you to not only load up and play drum samples, but also sequence them. Hydrogen is a drum sampler/sequencer that offers similar functionality to Battery. If you are using drum samples, Battery is a popular offering from Native Instruments. Most people are recording live drums or using drum samples in their sessions. However, Ardour is a good balance of being open source, free, and possesses many of the routing/mixing options that large commercial DAWS such as Pro Tools have. There are many other DAW options for Linux such as QTractor, Tracktion, Bitwig, etc. However, it is very full featured for mixing and audio editing. MIDI editing capabilities are a bit lacking when compared to other offerings. It is used as the basis for Harrison Mixbus. DAW = ArdourĪrdour is a fully featured and open source DAW. Rather, I’ve chosen prominent pieces of software offered by the Open Source audio community that have the closest feature parity with their paid Windows/OS X counterparts. There are many available options, and this is not a comprehensive list. I’ve compiled a list below of popular pieces of software and their equivalents in the Linux ecosystem.
When switching to Linux for music making, one of the hardest things outside of configuring your distribution for realtime audio is finding valid replacements for all the software and VST’s you know and love from the Windows/OS X ecosystems.įortunately there are many open source alternatives available to choose from.
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