[LAU] Laid to rest is Pro Tools LE"...

[Rob]

On Friday 04 March 2011 14:03, Renato wrote:
> I'm sorry, but saying that time spent reading a book or whatever is
> money because in that time you could have made money is really twisted
> reasoning IMHO.

I bill by the hour.  Most studio guys do, too.  This isn't "twisted 
reasoning"; this is survival.  In this context, time is literally money, 
and time spent tweaking things that shouldn't need tweaking before you can 
get to work on a paid project is a waste of money.

I've spent whole weekends getting Linux audio to work for me on different 
machines, and I've successfully recorded songs with it.  I did so because I 
think free software is important, and I wanted to prove to myself I could 
do it.  If those had been paying gigs, it would have been more lucrative to 
buy myself a Macbook and eat the cost.

There are obviously people on this list who run their studios on Linux, and 
I've known people who ran studios on way more finicky stuff.  But for most 
people who do sound professionally, not coding or system administration, 
it'd be a huge time sink.

Rob