[LAU] another linux audio bashing thread on slashdot

[Brent Busby]

I wonder if any of the people flaming Linux pro audio have even tried it 
any time in the last four years -- the improvements just recently have 
been amazing.  Regarding Ardour, I wouldn't be that surprised if they 
hadn't tried it since Ardour 2.x and Jack 1.  I really couldn't ask for 
more in a DAW than its current state.

Where I do get envious of the Mac/Windows world sometimes is some of 
their plugins for simulating certain colorations.  Universal Audio has 
very intersting plugins for emulating tape saturation, classic mixer 
console channel strips, and the Roland Dimension D rackmount chorus.  
They require hardware acceleration from a special DSP (available either 
in a PCI card or an external firewire box), and thus probably a special 
driver -- an even bigger barrier to Linux compatibility than the 
programs themselves.  But these UA plugins really do get me drooling...

Izotope Ozone's mastering suite is something else we don't have anything 
in the ballpark of.  I don't know if it would be possible to run 
something that big under Wine with WineASIO or not.  It's quite a large 
set of applications.

Anyway, despite all this, I'm not planning on leaving Linux.  It's 
currently giving me far more than I had when I started (in the era of 
tape and hardware sequencing), and it's getting better every year.

-- 
+ Brent A. Busby	 + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
+ Sr. UNIX Systems Admin +  banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago	 +  eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ James Franck Institute +  Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ Materials Research Ctr +  we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky