This sounds really frustrating.
I had issues with Wine breaking things as well. I had to rollback to a previous version. I'm not sure what the process would be for you, as I haven't been on a Debian based install for a couple years, but there should be more than enough details to get you moving if you choose that direction. A search for "debian rollback wine" or something similar should pull a bunch of info. Someone here might have some insight.
I'm not a super fan of app images. There's nothing inherently wrong with them, I just don't like them. If you're finding the app image for LMMS keeps crashing you can trying installing through apt using either the Debian repos or (I believe) there's a KX Studio version. I haven't looked into it. These could just install an app image as well. If you're really going through it (and you're brave) you can always build it yourself from source. The directions look pretty straight forward to me, but I absolutely understand how they could be overwhelming if it's not something you've done befopre.
https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/wiki/Compiling
There's a thread here about Linux based synths as possible replacements for Synth1. viewtopic.php?p=171843#p171843
I am big fan of Surge XT, Vital, and Dexed. Vital has a ton of tutorials and presets out there. It's very approachable. I'm pretty sure Vaporizer doesn't come with any wavetables, limiting how much you can do out of the box. Zynaddsubfx/Zynfusion are very deep and have a bunch of presets, but are not terribly approachable. I wouldn't recommend them unless you're very comfortable tweaking synthesizers. Zynfusion has a much better UI, but still very deep. The rest are all very serviceable synths. I just don't use them much, aside from Noisemaker.
QTractor is one I've never really had much success with. I've tried it multiple times over the last year and a bit (if memory serves) and it just never worked right out of the box. I'm using Reaper and it works flawlessly for me. Reaper was one of the pieces of software that kept me on Windows as long as I was there. Once it was ported to Linux I made the permanent move. It is paid software, but it is very affordable at $60 USD for a license. The trial version will keep working as long as you'd like. It is only limited by a nag screen after the trail period expires. It is deep software that is very customizable, but you get up and running pretty efficiently for basic stuff. Much like Vital, there are a ton of tutorials and resources around it.
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