Re: [LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 06:08 -0800, briandc wrote: Somebody, at least the musician, has to pay the strings etc., even if the location should be for free. I always wonder what "music done with Linux" does mean. Usually guitars are from Gibsanez and drums are from Perwig, mixers are from Studeve and speakers are from Genetone etc. and if you record all this with e.g. Ardour, than I would call it "music made with Gibsanez, Perwig, Studeve, Genetone and Ardour (Linux version)". I guess not that many people really make music just with a studio in a box and even when using a virtual keyboard, at least some speakers are needed that aren't Linux. Interesting IMO is, that for music made with the studio in the box, when done with Apple or Microsoft, while having billions of instruments and effects in the end all only use the same few instruments and effects from this billions. That's not bad, it's not different to using guitars and _real_ keyboards, but it's strange that they all use it in the same way. Nearly all modern recordings are mixed in the same style, do use the instruments and effects in the same way. So now my question. What exactly is missing for people who want a complete studio in the box comparable with Apple and Microsoft. I guess Linux does need, without judging possible usage and it doesn't mean that I need it: auto-tune a different kind of vocoder reverbs (I don't know if there are god reverbs for Appple and Microsoft, at least I guess Linux reverbs can't compare with 19" gear) lightweight, but anyway excellent multi-band compressor as plugin (I once used one comparable to JAMin, but not nearly causing that much load) EQs (I disagree that they are all the same) I'm not missing this, as mentioned before, I'm missing hardware support, some sequencer options, such as muting clips for Qtractor ;) and sync, e.g. the possibility to have something like jack transport, that enables loop play. And a better audio quality, IOW no audio jitter, no xruns, digital copies without issues, for what reason ever there are issues, I guess one issue was (is) the order of jack IOs when looping an audio signal from the output of an app to it's input.