[jtmoulia]

I love that the soul of this post is about music production on Guix using FOSS -- over the years I've used most of the tools the author listed.

That being said, I have been super impressed with the non-free DAW Bitwig [1]. It was built by some ex-Ableton folk and has a similar polish and depth. I'm running it on Linux and have no problems connecting to audio or midi devices. I'm even able to load Windows VST plugins, e.g. Serum, via a wine emulator. It contains some pretty novel features, too, like being able to build complex audio FX as if from legos [2]

1. https://www.bitwig.com/ 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wHHbV8Zw4g&feature=emb_logo

[stevefolta]

Reaper [1] is another excellent proprietary DAW that has a Linux version (albeit "experimental"). At this point, if only a couple of plugin companies started releasing for Linux, I could seriously consider switching. And as Apple becomes more locked-down, I would like to be able to.

1. https://www.reaper.fm

[jtmoulia]

Late to response, but I'm a big fan of reaper also -- its fantastic comping tools in particular keep me coming back.