ardour VS muse

Compare ardour vs muse and see what are their differences.

ardour

Mirror of Ardour Source Code (by Ardour)

muse

MusE is a digital audio workstation with support for both Audio and MIDI (by muse-sequencer)
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ardour muse
171 13
3,563 614
2.6% 2.0%
9.9 7.7
6 days ago 24 days ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ardour

Posts with mentions or reviews of ardour. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-30.

muse

Posts with mentions or reviews of muse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-27.
  • My dual boot with windows 11 won't boot past intro screen or even into bios after failed attempt to fix frequent Kerbal panic.
    2 projects | /r/debian | 27 May 2023
    Give a try to Ardour, LMMS, MusE and Rosegarden.
  • Creating hardcore
    2 projects | /r/gabber | 21 Jul 2022
    I’m learning MuSe right now which is an open source DAW (digital audio workstation). MuSe
  • What apps would you like to see ported to Qt/KDE?
    14 projects | /r/kde | 17 Apr 2022
    For just At (no KDE) there's MusE so it sort of did happen. Although it's not one of the "big name" DAWs with tons of development effort, so you may end up missing niceties that the competition provides.
  • fl studio 20?
    3 projects | /r/software | 10 Nov 2021
    You won't find help in this sub with piracy (try /r/piracy for that). There are a number of free alternatives though if you are looking to get your start though. Muse Ardour LMMS
  • Open source linux daws
    2 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 4 Nov 2021
    I"m also looking for DAW. There is MusE also. But nobody says about it. Why?
    2 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 4 Nov 2021
    There is also musE sequencer which is quite nice, especially for MIDI editing: https://muse-sequencer.github.io/
  • MusE 4.0 released
    2 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 28 May 2021
    Downloads and changelog: https://github.com/muse-sequencer/muse/releases/tag/4.0.0
    2 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 28 May 2021
    Homepage: https://muse-sequencer.github.io/
  • MuseScore 3.6
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2021
    I'm actually a little foggy on this -- is this completely unrelated to the free software MusE DAW (https://github.com/muse-sequencer/muse), that also includes a sheet music editor as well?

    I'm happy to see that the MusE DAW seems also to have resumed development after a very long hiatus / dry-spell. While not as feature-filled in most respects as bigger free software DAWs like Ardour, it has a more conventional piano roll interface with a few QoL features, which is why I preferred it for some time before switching to Ardour and getting over Ardour's sub-standard piano-roll.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ardour and muse you can also consider the following projects:

zrythm - a highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation - official mirror

lmms - Cross-platform music production software

musescore-downloader - ⚠️ This repo has moved to https://github.com/LibreScore/dl-librescore ⚠️ | Download sheet music (MSCZ, PDF, MusicXML, MIDI, MP3, download individual parts as PDF) from musescore.com for free, no login or Musescore Pro required | 免登录、免 Musescore Pro,免费下载 musescore.com 上的曲谱

MuseScore - MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!

audacity - Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. It is developed by a wide group of volunteers. Contributions welcome! [Moved to: https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity]

brunch - Boot ChromeOS on x86_64 PC - supports Intel CPU/GPU from 6th Gen (Skylake) or AMD Ryzen

pipewire - Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)

org.wireshark.Wireshark

audacity - Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as an open source software that respects user privacy. [Moved to: https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity]

audacity - Audio Editor

BespokeSynth - Software modular synth