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Linux?
Do you want to create music or twiddle with your computer?
Linux currently has at least 5 different sound servers, none of which
talk to each other. If you are interested in low latency you will have
to run Jack which is supposedly a low latency sound server that uses
ALSA (one of the Linux sound systems) to interface with your audio
hardware. The entire thing is one gigantic mess that requires endless
care and feeding.
How do I know?
I tried to do the very same thing about a month ago and finally gave up
because I found myself spending more time trying to make things work
than creating music. And before the Linux loonatics crawl out of mix, I
use Linux for my webserver and all my day to day operations and for
that, Linux is preferred over Windows in my opinion.
As for programs, your biggest problem is going to be QUALITY plugins.
There are many plugins that come with say Ardour (a decent program) but
they can't match the quality of even the most basic Windows/Mac plugin
in general.
Ardour is highly unstable and has an interface that reminds me of Logic
1.0.
Terrible!
Audacity is not a bad program, but it is no SoundForge.

If I were you, and I am assuming you are on a budget (why else would
anyone consider Linux for professional audio?) I would try N-Tracks and
scour the net for free plugins, many of which are very good.

not really: i have sonar,
i 'm interested by Samplitude (good)

I think Linux is an interesting OS.
And Agnula a very good project
Ardour is only a beta version 0.9beta29 so let's wait.
interesting that's all ;-)))

maybe Pro tools LE for live recordings and Linux Audio Agnula/Ardour for
testing.





If you are not on a budget, Sony was recently running a special on
SoungForge 8.0 for $99.00 and nothing Linux has can come close.

However, if your time is not worth anything and you don't mind losing
clients or at least having them laugh at you, try dynabolic for a
decent audio based distribution.

[(i posted here but i'm not a professional. so i don't mind loosing
clients because i'm a jurist not a sound engineer ))) it will be for
semi pro applications and recordings, not professional. i don't care
about pro tools TDM... even it's my favorite soft+hardware... ]


Good luck
Marko




thanks