4 Feb
2015
4 Feb
'15
7:31 a.m.
On 03/02/15 at 09:30pm, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
Ralf, we (readers of this list) are used to your
occasional
fits, to hearing for the zillionth time about your troubles
with Brauner, and that only two of the eight ADAT channels
of your sound card are usable.
What you have been writing recently is different. Gratituous
drivel about how bad Linux is for audio, without any hint of
evidence and without any reasoning behind it.
Some examples from the last days:
If he tells you he'll have to kill you ;-)
--
«My mama said to get things done
You'd better not mess with Major Tom»
JFTR I've got loss of sound quality issues
when using Linux,
that I don't have when using professional or even consumer
digital hardware or even 4-track analog tapes with Dolby C.
IMO there's something broken, at least on all Linux machines
I used and I'm still using.
If I record an ALESIS D4 cymbal with Linux, the
result is week.
If I record it with a consumer DAT recorder, there's no audible
difference to the original sound. Even a 4-track cassette player
with Dolby C still sounds better, than the Linux recording
(tested with TerraTec and RME cards).
Linux dithering is a PITA, it adds annoying
audible noise, no
stand alone consumer gear, no proprietary DAW and especially
no professional gear comes with such audible dithering noise.
Is there usable dithering available for Linux?
If you mix e.g. all your Qtractor tracks and
master them to a
stereo Qtractor track, this digital mix does cause a loss of
sound quality. If you should be that hearing-impaired, that
you even are unable to notice this, then take a look at
spectrograms. Likely there's a very old thread somewhere in
the Qtractor mailing list archive. It's not a Qtractor issue,
it's a jackd issue.
What's wrong with you ?