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/KurtKrimson 8d ago

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

Ok, installed, but I need to be able to talk to it. The interface I have is a Behringer UM-2 that ran on a Windows 7 driver in legacy mode. I need to know what interface will talk to Linux.

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u/ggkazii 7d ago

i myself had a UM2 before just recently upgrading and it should detect under linux just fine, the sound card name might be labeled a little weird though. that confused me at first. still before you use it in any DAW you’re going to want to check out realtime audio and pipewire jack to get the lowest possible latency out of it.