web dev here who also plays guitar. i’ve been using audacity for recording and musescore for notation but wondering what else is out there.
anyone using anything cool for practice, transcription, or just messing around with sound?
This is the fourth time you’ve asked the same question of the same community in 24 days. The vast majority of us here are the same people that were here each of those previous times. Is there some reason you would expect to get different answers every week?
I don’t really know how to play or make music, but I’ve messed around with a few tools: there’s rackarrack which is a virtual fx rack for guitar, there’s DAW Ardour, if you are interested in synths and similar there are things like VCV rack and Cardinal, which are modular synth racks, there’s trackers like OpenMPT and Impulse Tracker and Hydrogen, which is a drum machine/sequencer.
If you are on Linux there’s jackd which is an audio system that allows you to route sound through applications with a virtual patchbay.
Supercollider is fascinating.
https://supercollider.github.io/
Dexed is a great DX7 emulator
https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
Dragonfly Reverb
For notation, Musescore is actually both free and open source https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore. It’s one of the most popular notation apps, and is backed by a professionel design team.
Neural Amp Modeler
I don’t produce music, but for transcription, you might look at Rosegarden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosegarden
If you want nondestructive editing, my understanding is that you might want Ardour rather than Audacity. I personally find Ardour’s UI a bit confusing.
