REAPER

“I feel sorry every time I'm stuck going back to Windows. And admittedly, the situation is not even comparable to how it was ~25 years ago when I first started playing around with Linux, most things I want to do with a computer just work on Linux nowadays. There are still such thi...”

“As a sibling comment pointed out, Reaper is not FOSS, it's fully proprietary. What makes it stand out is its great Linux support, and very generous licensing.If you want to venture into the FOSS DAW realm on Linux you have to go to LMMS and Ardour. I've played around with them, t...”

“Seconding Reaper, great software. Renoise is also extremely fun to use if you’re comfortable with trackers (for midi input not that they track you) and you make electronic music”

“One thing I loved about WinAmp was its ability to use audio plugins that were if not full VST (a Steinberg-originated format), a very close VST subset. So I could use the same plugins I would in my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for music production to apply custom EQs beyond th...”

“Cjam is a frame-based MP3 editor that works without decoding or re-encoding.It supports batch editing of multiple files using both the GUI and scripting.Editing is performed virtually by referencing the original MP3 data, making operations very fast.The latest release adds clipbo...”