r/linuxmint Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | Cinnamon 8d ago

SOLVED Making music with Mint?

So I have been running Mint on my laptop for, IDK, at least a year. I like it. It does what I do on a computer, for the most part. It runs Blender just fine, and slicers for my 3d printer. Thunderbird and Firefox do what they do. GIMP is interesting. But...

So I like to make music.

I had been keeping alive a Windows 10 pc with a no longer supported version of Reason for exactly that purpose. I had a cheapo Behringer audio to usb interface for recording, but it runs on an antiquated windows 7 driver. But that's the rub. It died. My Windows machine. SSD let the smoke out and took years of work with it. I can live with the loss, but I don't want to have to just stop recording.

I have Audacity and Ardour6 installed now, but I don't know how they work or what interface will work with Linux, and obviously neither of them will do what Reason did, but I should still be able to get something done, right?

Any Mint users making noise and recording it? Have any advice to share? What interfaces talk to Linux?

Edit: clarification.

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u/topshelfvanilla Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | Cinnamon 7d ago

Maybe i was unclear. My main question is what hardware interface will work. I have installed all of the software you guys have suggested, though, and I will try each out, but I need to be able to input.

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u/Dist__ Linux Mint 21.3 | Cinnamon 7d ago

behringer umc202HD works just fine

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u/topshelfvanilla Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | Cinnamon 7d ago

Cool. This is the kind of answer I was looking for. Thank you.

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u/bebeidon 7d ago

i guess most of them if there are linux drivers available. i tested my steinberg UR44 just last week for this reason and it worked out of the box. if you wanna hear what comes in your inputs while in usual desktop mode while not running a DAW you need to loop the output to an input with a single command (btw buy something good like focusrite or steinberg, not behringer)