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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by wilsonnb on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @10:23AM (#16744861)
You might be interested in looking at Bitwig Studio for audio production. I've heard it's similar conceptually to Ableton Live and it runs natively on Linux.

https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html

I agree that audio production on Linux is pretty good these days. Ardour is a pretty good DAW. The only problems are jack being a PITA sometimes and the lack of plugins.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by stuntkite on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:52PM (#16746589)
I got bitwig as soon as it came out. It does some things fantastically! The apt-like package manager is badass. I haven't tried again in about a year but every time I've used it the massive instability reminds me of mediocre DAWs that drove me to live in 2003.

The reason I went with bitwig was to support anyone doing anything that wasn't quite Live because everything is made with Ableton now and I can hear it. Also the collaborative features that didn't work when I last tried them. Moving to Supercollider has solved all those issues for me. It's also cross platform and free.

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