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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That one DAW for electronic music... The logo had a hexagon or something.. Caustic maybe?

[–] THEWIZARD@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Agree there are no decent daws no real actual one's on Android that are open source and or contain a loop library that's not like an infant made it, they are all primarily proprietary and pretty much a bag of t*rds so far except I hear for FruityLoops but it's expensive and still nothing comparitively to the PC version it's half a job. The only good free one is Garageband on IOS devices but again it's free to use but proprietary software made by Apple's Logic team I think. Android is looking like a complete idot on that front compared to Garageband versus any and all combined daws they have built for it so far in either/and/or open or closed source.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm I do need a reason to learn rust... But a cross platform DAW feels like too big of a project for my level of disorganization 😹

Maybe I should try building ardour for android, it would be way easier to rebuild Ardour's UI for mobile.

[–] THEWIZARD@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That was the one that came to mind while your at it maybe add a shortcut for extending a sound region to the full length of the track eg. Logic Pro X uses the L key for this I suspect it stands for Loop, but yeah would be awesome to have some ported daw that can also be used on Android TV OS for TV boxes like the Shield TV and these super powerful Rockchip RK3588 chipset TV OS boxes like the Mekotronics R58 mini and R58X range I have one, the idea would definitely work for those as they are powerful S series samsungs definitely to, mouse capability and keyboard for TV boxes obviously would have to be included as they don't have touch screens.