I’ve wanted to get back into piano and to start off I was wondering if there was any decent FOSS piano software for linux?
Do you mean a VST? There’s a good list of open-source VSTs here: https://github.com/webprofusion/OpenAudio
https://blog.wolftune.com/p/software-recommendations-and-more.html
If anybody knows what you’re looking for, the author of this blog does.
Does musescore fit your needs? If you want a piano… you should probably get a midi input keyboard. If you don’t need 88 keys and real-time playing, you can deal with less octaves.
I’ve never dived into this, but if electronic keyboards are just glorified midi-controllers, I’d have to think you could find a FOSS solution. If they’re not simply midi-controllers, I wouldn’t begin to know. I’d imagine you might have an easier time with keyboards from the 90s or whenever.
I’ve used Ardour to capture keyboard midi input before. Not beginner-friendly, but it works if you want to play something, pick a soundfile, edit a flubbed note or two, and add it to a project.
Not quite sure what you’re after - but on the off chance, I’ll mention LMMS, as I don’t think it’s already been mentioned amongst the other audio software.
Website here: LMMS
Well… if you want the very minimum necessary to play piano, I’ve written this tool to do it with just a MIDI keyboard and a modern browser.
http://tools.fabioiotti.com/midi-synth/index.html https://github.com/bruce965/midi-synth
You could try dexed, it’s a YamahaDX7 clone https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed/releases