Re: [linux-audio-user] Resume

Renato Fabbri <renatoftato(a)yahoo.com>om>: Two obvious differences: Cultural background and Ardour's lack of MIDI tracks. The latter is asked for by many, it's lack raising eyebrows on a regular basis. Personally I couldn't care less. You can sync a MIDI sequencer to Ardour/JACK. The former is underrated, neglected even, I think. Your question "Can it do everything as well" is serious bait I cannot resist :) Cubase actually did some things well when I last laid hands on it (SX), like editing stuff being close to fool-proof (me being the fool), unified and very accessible, good gui. Some things appeared to be outright ridiculous though, like limited bus/track counts. The Ardour/JACK infrastructure could be called "bare-bone routing monster" and works very well and reliable. There are issues, some deep, but none that seem to prevent people from recording albums with it. You've heard wrong. Certain audio interfaces might have problematic alsa drivers, true. I believe some of those driver issues would turn out to be vendor issues really. It's very usable but it's a hack and it resembles much an arranged marriage: Practical maybe and definitely not happy (License issues preventing the distribution of vst enabled binaries, gui issues etc.). Torben Hohn's xfst says it all on stdout: "lost focus, got the focus, wtf, quit" -- Wolfgang