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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/prester_john00 on 2026-03-25 17:51:42+00:00.
I’m a music teacher working with low income kids in the 5-10 year old range. I’m an expert digital audio person, and I want to be able to confidently teach them a free DAW that’s good quality, cross platform, and not going to constantly try and sell them stuff. REAPER is what I use in my personal life, but it isn’t going to fly in a professional setting because it’s not free (winrar type of license). LMMS would work, but they can’t use it to record themselves rapping and that’s something they want to do. That leaves just Ardoir. They link to it on fsf.org, it must be free right? Then when I go to the page for it, the free version is a demo that has limited tracks and outputs silence every 10 minutes.
What gives? I’m not going to teach a bunch of 7 year olds to compile it from scratch if that’s the only way to actually get it for free. Is there an alternative that’s better than LMMS that I don’t know about? Or am I doomed to teach them to mix in LMMS and have them record vocals with… (shudder)…
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Audacity!?