metasymbol wrote:This - on the other hand, is a bit too negative.
there is no negativity in to name what I'm missing (as a musician/producer) in the studio.
If you say, that you miss a lot of functionality in Linux audio, that is perfectly OK - because thus you name facts from your point of view and out of your experience.
But it is indeed no appropriate criticism anymore if you say, that one can only test buggy software in Linux but not work productive - because this is simply not true.
It takes me less then a minute after my 64Studio is up to have a complete real world music production running. And then I run it for 5-7 h without the need for any "debugging, testing, reading manpages etc etc etc". I simply do it -
metasymbol wrote:
For sure there is Ardour and some nice apps on Linux. But the difference is to see when I boot up a Mac and see how nice the Mac version of Ardour supporting AU and LADSPA plugins and we Linux user still should use only poor LADSPA.
It is perfectly Ok, if you see it this way but not everybody does. Though I also would like to have better plugins LADSPA gives me results I like very much.
Plugins are a nice to have - the important stuff is HD-recording and this is done absolutely satisfactory with Ardour.
metasymbol wrote:
Ardour didn't make the job because of missing midi sequencer (maybe one day) and support for pro plugins (like the Mac Ardour already do).
If you need to have a MIDI-sequencer this is important, if you want to record music, that does not need one, it is irrelevant. There is a discussion amongst Ardour users, if a MIDI sequencer, that many do not need, could bloat Ardour and if we could have a compile-option like SEQ=NO.
Regarding the plugins again:
1.) LADSPA-plugins can be combined for unique FX and can be used as absolutely satisfying processors in the mix.
2.) There is NO reason to have everything, that is possible at hand. I do NOT need stuff like Melodyne and I sure do not need GuitarRig.
I like to play with the virtual guitar-amp I made out of LADSPA-plugins but this is but one option to have a cool guitarsound. Real amps and standalone processors still deliver a multitude of options for guitarplayers to get a unique sound. And many many of them will NEVER unplug their guit from their 20 year old purely analogue guitar amp.
metasymbol wrote:
Zynaddsubfx is not a bad synth but where is a working plugin version? And at least -all this apps "work like a charm" but not together in a music host software - thats the difference.
As you said: JACK sould have a "save"-button. absolutely true!