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And it's for Linux.

http://www.tracktion.com/

Thank you for mentioning this! I purchased Tracktion 3 for the Mac a number of years ago because its workflow and interface mapped better onto my brain than any alternative I could find (well, at least those I could demo for free, which was quite a few). However I was disappointed when Tracktion appeared to become an abandoned and unmaintained product, and it kept losing bits of usefulness with each OS X release. To be honest I'd given up on it and considered it to be lost money. But if it's back I'm *definitely* going in for the new version -- particularly as even the non-upgrade price is now around 20-25% of what I paid for the previous version (and an even better ratio on the upgrade price).

I initially looked at it for the purpose of MIDI sequencing, and that's what I based my purchase decision on. However I never used it for that purpose but instead have done a small number of multitracked board recordings from my live sound-guy gigs. Back before the bit-rot it did an absolute bang-up job for those projects.

But, anyway, given there's a new version and it would appear that active development has resumed, I'll definitely recommend checking it out. I mean, there's free demos for Windows, Mac, and Linux -- with certainly enough going on in the demo to determine whether it fits your style of operating and is worth purchasing.

Direct links: http://www.tracktion.com/ and http://www.tracktion.com/linux/

Thank you for mentioning this! I purchased Tracktion 3 for the Mac a number of years ago because its workflow and interface mapped better onto my brain than any alternative I could find (well, at least those I could demo for free, which was quite a few). However I was disappointed when Tracktion appeared to become an abandoned and unmaintained product, and it kept losing bits of usefulness with each OS X release. To be honest I'd given up on it and considered it to be lost money. But if it's back I'm *definitely* going in for the new version -- particularly as even the non-upgrade price is now around 20-25% of what I paid for the previous version (and an even better ratio on the upgrade price).

I initially looked at it for the purpose of MIDI sequencing, and that's what I based my purchase decision on. However I never used it for that purpose but instead have done a small number of multitracked board recordings from my live sound-guy gigs. Back before the bit-rot it did an absolute bang-up job for those projects.

But, anyway, given there's a new version and it would appear that active development has resumed, I'll definitely recommend checking it out. I mean, there's free demos for Windows, Mac, and Linux -- with certainly enough going on in the demo to determine whether it fits your style of operating and is worth purchasing.

Direct links: http://www.tracktion.com/ and http://www.tracktion.com/linux/

They are porting it to Linux, http://www.tracktion.com/,
it is low cost.

This is the first year that I've been completely Windows-free, and that's basically for two (or three) reasons:

1) Pro audio workstation software is finally coming to Linux
Tracktion published a Linux beta a while ago, and later this year (hopefully) Bitwig Studio will be published, also on Linux. After this one, the rest of the developers will follow up. While waiting for these, I've been using Reaper, which has an officially supported Wine build.

2) Pro video editing software is finally coming to Linux
In April, a public beta of Lightworks was released for Linux.

3) Gaming
Steam + the Humble Bundles. Suddenly, there's an abundance of Linux ports of great games. Other developers will follow.

So, 2013 is, finally, the year of the Linux desktop, but perhaps not in the way it was expected to happen. The OS field is more fragmented than ever. But perhaps it doesn't matter. It is also easier to port software across OSs than ever. Or at least design your software for portability.

(for me, Ardour doesn't cut it. I realize this is very much a catch-22 for OSS and making $, but I don't like the method Ardour uses to financially support itself)

But both of those are now taken care of.

Lightworks - awesome NLE, feature set on par w/ Final Cut Pro before the iFCP dumbening - http://www.lwks.com/
Tracktion 4 - professional daw (originally by Mackie). Methods are a bit different from more traditional software (Cubase/Reaper/Protools/Samplitude/etc) but professional thru-and-thru. http://www.tracktion.com/

FWIW there's a rumour that Tracktion, (a bit of a cult audio/midi sequencer amongst some audio circles) is also getting ported over to Linux in the next couple of months. My money's on this as a more serious contender for the linux audio throne, but I don't know if it'll be open source (probably not actually, as it's a commercial app on Windows + Mac).. anyways, it's a cool bit of software that's worth checking out anyway. www.tracktion.com IIRC