On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Mark Knecht
<markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
The folks we'd be focused on are the PTLE people. They are primarily
home/small studio users and most likely haven't spent thousands of
dollars on licensed plugins. However they might be drawn to Linux
audio as an alternative if they understood how rich the Open Source
plugin library is.
Beg to differ strongly. I WAS one of those people(PTLE and M-Powered, still ahve the box around here somewhere), and even though I am now using Ardour, and have been for QUITE some time, I STILL have thousands of dollars in plugins, and it is still a major stumbling block for going back to Linux full time as in many cases there aren't acceptable equivalents(Real Time noise reduction is the main one I harp on, but heck, just getting some the are equal to TrackPlug would be a heck of a step). Just because someone is on PTLE doesn't mean that they aren't investing money in plugins and doing serious work.
In many cases I could even say that there is a larger problem than just harping on capabilities. One of the major selling points of PT in general(Compared to even Logic, DP, CuBase, etc.) is the fact you can go into just about any studio in the world and it is there. Record a few tracks in your garage, take it to a studio to flesh out and mixdown, works perfect for many people, and I know many people that have this exact workflow. AATranslator is a great tool in this regards from what I have heard but is both closed source and Windows only, so it is very limiting at the same time. Nothing against those folks, I am immensly glad they came out with such a tool.
Has anyone ever done a plugin-by-plugin replacement guide for PT
plugins showing what the most equivalent (or better) solution is in
LV2, LADSPA, etc.? Might be an interesting web page to look at.
Are you looking to compare only the built in PT plugins, or are you looking to compare all the plugins that CAN be run in PT, which is a heck of a list obviously as I am sure you know.
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