Open Source Reason Alternatives
The best open source alternative to Reason is Ardour. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenMPT or Rosegarden. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Reason and 15 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Reason are Bespoke Synth, Radium, Qtractor and Non DAW Studio.
Reason alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps but may also be Digital Audio Workstations or Audio Editors. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Reason.
- Paid • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Ardour's intention is to provide digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use.
Ardour vs Reason opinions
No instruments included, clunky interface
Less possibilities, interface is not up to speed.
OpenMPT (short hand for Open ModPlug Tracker) is a popular tracker software for Windows. OpenMPT is completely free and allows you to create and play back some great music on your computer.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
Bespoke is a software modular synthesizer. It contains a bunch of modules, which you can connect together to create sounds.
- Paid • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface.
Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework.
A modular system composed of four main parts: Non Timeline, a non-destructive, non-linear audio recorder and arranger. Non Mixer, a live mixer with effects plugin hosting and advanced Ambisonics spatialization control.
Luppp is a music creation tool, intended for live use. The focus is on real time processing and a fast, intuitive workflow. With extensive MIDI mapping support, you can get looping just how you like!
Seq66 is a MIDI sequencer and live-looper with a hardware-sampler grid-pattern interface, MIDI automation for live performance, sets and playlists for song management, scale/chord-aware piano-roll interface, song editor for creative composition, and control via mouse...
Seq24 is a minimal loop based midi sequencer. It was created to provide a very simple interface for editing and playing midi loops.
