RE: [linux-audio-user] Sound on Sound, and Home Recording Magazine

--- pawL <pawl(a)attbi.com> wrote: Have you looked at Ardour? It's moving out of alpha and into beta. About two weeks ago the main developer, Paul Davis, announced on a flier for the recent NAMM show that a stable release would be available within a couple months. I believe that Ardour, for people like us--advocates of open source and freedom, will be superior to the other products like Cubase. Several months ago, I did produce a commercial 18 song job using Ardour. It was very difficult because of the stage of development but I did it to prove to myself and hopefully others that Ardour is the real thing. BTW, I selected the job carefully and basically knew what I'd be up against. I wouldn't recommend anyone use Ardour for commercial work until they know what they're getting into. Ardour development is very rapid. I'd estimate that there are around five significant CVS updates each week. A couple hours ago Paul D. announced his "unoffical" intention to wipe out all bugs on the TODO list by the end of the weekend. I've got 'ssh -X root@daddy && ardour' from the studio to my room via 100mb LAN and running inside GDB now and am hoping I can test some updates. :) I'm a big fan. Have you not looked at Ardour? If not, please do. I believe you'll be interested. Also, there's ecasound which I haven't used but strongly suspect is another interesting Linux DAW. There are some folks doing interesting work with Rosegarden -> jackd -> ardour. I'm not sure how well it's working but I think they're seeing alsa_pcm:rosegarden-out_N in the ardour routes. :) That's interesting enough by itself for me to say, Yes, I know of something that's as good or better than Cubase. pawL, in all fairness, my reaction to the interest in a linux based Cubase is motivated by the fact that there are some very interesting Linux based solutions. I believe anything that's got the advertising investment of a Cubase that entered the Linux realm would only harm the efforts of linux audio developers (LAD) because many users would divert their attention via product reconiziability. In other words, I think it would split the user community and probably the developer community too. Although, it's probably to late for them to do serious harm because we're very close to having a stable Ardour which is GPL and if Steinberg didn't release with GPL everyone would eventually understand the consequences and would migrate to the less familiar but superior linux based product. Anyway, if I cocked off with my earlier responses, I am sorry. Thanks for asking a tough question. wRONg Parker __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com