[LAU] another linux audio bashing thread on slashdot

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 20:28 +0100, rosea.grammostola wrote:
> Recording an album is good possible on Linux. It's far more problematic 
> to compose music (both by music notation and MIDI) on Linux, MIDI tools 
> is the neglected child here.
> 
> Ardour3 has MIDI, but there're debates how useful it is atm. Ardour is 
> focusing on audio engineering, so you probably shouldn't expect it to 
> get comparable results as you'll get on other platforms.
> 
> Qtractor is more mature, but is lacking stuff like Jack Midi and also 
> the busses system is a bit strange imho.
> 
> I've little experience with Muse2, but it is pretty mature if I believe 
> the stories. It doesn't have a very inspiring GUI though.
> 
> Moreover, small issues are the biggest problems on linuxaudio for a good 
> workflow. If you're unlucky you're more busy reporting issues then 
> making music.
> 
> As mentioned before, the NON tools + Carla, are making things much 
> better for me. But also here non-sequencer is less mature then 
> non-timeline and non-mixer. Laborejo is promising when working with 
> notation but also lacking matureness and features.

I completely agree with this for MIDI music. Qtractor is amazing for
MIDI, but bad for hard disc recording. Ardour is good for hard disc
recording, but bad for MIDI. I don't care.

$ sudo pacman -Syu
[snip]
warning: ardour: ignoring package upgrade (2.8.16-1 => 3.5.14-1)
[snip]

But indeed, some only want it all in one application and other OS do
provide it. Again, I don't care about it, I can live with it, while I
prefer myself one app for all.

But it's not fair to bash the musicians who are comfortable with other
OS and who can't use Linux for their needs.

And we still have all those driver issues. We are computer nerds +
musicians and can live with the driver issues, an averaged musician is a
musician and not a computer nerd.