Anyone know a music making program, supporting midi? Preferably open source of coarse

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  • Mamba

    Virtual Midi keyboard and Midi Live Looper for Jack Audio Connection Kit (by brummer10)

  • For quickly playing around I use Mamba which is a virtual keyboard with built-in fluidsynth support. So I don't have to start up all my different modular programs just to play a few notes with a piano sound. You can set your hardware MIDI controller to Mamba's MIDI in. It has very basic recording/looping but if you actually want to record and arrange tracks then use a DAW.

  • lmms

    Cross-platform music production software

  • DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) like Ardour or LMMS are like the "Office suite" of music making. They are big programs that can record, arrange, and edit audio and MIDI tracks, add effects, mix and export etc.

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  • ardour

    Mirror of Ardour Source Code

  • DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) like Ardour or LMMS are like the "Office suite" of music making. They are big programs that can record, arrange, and edit audio and MIDI tracks, add effects, mix and export etc.

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