28 Oct
2013
28 Oct
'13
10:56 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:48 PM, michael noble <looplog(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Must be that time of year again when slashdotters get
a bee in their
bonnet about how useless Linux is for audio production. Enter at your own
risk...
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/10/27/0534248/ask-slashdot-best-cross-plat…
Some choice quotes:
Even an ancient copy of Cool Edit Pro running on Widows XP is more usable,
useful, and powerful than any audio software available
natively on Linux.
I love Linux and open source, but it really isn't ready for audio recording
and MIDI processing, let alone the myriad of other
apps and plugins
required for effects processing and mastering. I would be extremely
surprised if there are any serious audio professionals using Linux as a DAW.
If you're serious at all about your music, you use OS X or Windows. That's
where the action is. Full stop. That's where the
the real music software
will be found; nowhere else. Swallow your pride, choose one of those 2
OS's, and get on with making music.
I'm sorry, but Ardour is not "great". I believe in Linux and OSS, but if
you need to make a living in music or sound, you are
not going to be using
Ardour. The music production community is always open to new technologies,
and if Ardour were anything like a professional-quality application, it
would be used... If you're a database programmer and want to play like
Jonathan Coulton in your spare time, then fine. You can make Ardour work
the same way you can use a folding camping shovel to dig a foundation. But
if you want to dig a lot of foundations, you're going to want to invest in
a back-hoe. And there is no Linux back-hoe for music.