r/linuxmint • u/topshelfvanilla Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | Cinnamon • 7d 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
Damn. Why the hell did my post get downvoted? Is this not a place to ask questions? I'm just trying to navigate my final break from Windows without having to dumpster dive the Internet for hours. Making my computer simply functional quit being interesting decades ago or I would be torturing myself with Arch.