On: Hydrogen – An advanced drum machine for Linux

[yellowapple]

The typical workflow for Hydrogen is to turn a whole desktop session into your DAW, building it from the ground up with your own selection of tools.

I've dreamed of doing something like that for awhile, but at the end of the day it's almost always easier to just reach for a self-contained DAW.

[badosu → yellowapple]

That's the idea of Non: http://non.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?page=Non%20DAW

Separating each part of the composition process with specific applications.