Noah Roberts a écrit :
Marko Shindler wrote:
[snip - nonsense and FUD]

This guy reminds me of someone I keep running into on music forums. He
seems to think he knows every damn thing about Linux audio but when he
actually talks about it anyone that actually does can see he is full of
****. He also attacks anyone who says anything good about Linux as if
it where some religious issue with him; a nutcase in other words...a
Windows zealot. Same guy, different guy? Who knows.

I am a programmer AND a musician. I use Linux for all of my audio work.
It is true that there are several different sound servers, but only one
is used for any serious audio processing: Jack. All Linux audio
applications are moving to this system. The other sound servers are for
desktops and window managers like KDE and Enlightenment and are meant to
allow applications to make buzz sounds and ring bells. They are not
built for Linux audio and are not used in such applications.

Jack is more than a sound server also. It is more like ReWire (as it
has been described, I have no experience with it) is on Windows only
probably serves more purposes. It allows the interconnection of
numerous audio applications and allows them to communicate in
*real-time*. There is little latency, not humanly perceivable at any
rate, in a correctly configured Linux DAW using Jack and running dozens
of sound apps connected in complex networks. Even incorrectly
configured a Linux DAW can do a lot before you start seing latency and
xruns if it is on a reasonably newer computer...just don't try to browse
the web while recording.

Ardour is VERY stable, even on my AMD64. It used to be otherwise and
only ran well on 32 bit computers but now it has become very solid on
the 64.

I don't know anything about windows plugins so I won't get into a debate
about which is better. The Windows plugin architectures have been
around MUCH longer and may be more mature and probably have a lot more
options. LADSPA is maturing and there are many good plugins...more than
I ever need or use.

If you desperately need those VST plugins you can use some of them on 32
bit computers using a combination of Wine and VSTServer. Or on 64 bit
computers running in compat. or legacy mode. I have never done this
since I have no need and have a 64 bit computer - it would just be way
more work than worth because of the architecture.

So you tried and failed. Big whoop. Who are you? You are nobody. So
you run a webserver on Linux...my dog could run a webserver on
Linux...over half the world runs webservers on Linux. I have had the
misfortune of dealing with many a webserver running Linux administered
by some know-nothing bozo. It doesn't grant you any brownie points to
claim you run a webserver. Even if you where an enterprise level
network admin running something on the order of Google it wouldn't say
anything about your knowledge of Linux DAW...you have 1 admited month of
experience in which you GAVE UP....after 1 month...pathetic. It has
taken me a lot longer than that to learn audio processing and recording.
It takes a lot longer than that to truely learn a system built for
something as complicated and involved as DAW.

Linux makes a VERY good and inexpensive DAW. I use it daily. Is Linux
DAW for you? Obviously not. Is it for whoever originated this now
cross-posted thread, I don't know...and they won't until they try. Is it
as good as Pro-Tools or Cubebase? How the **** should I know...I never
needed them. Linux is different and it is good enough for me.

One detail: with my delta audio soundcard: (dual boot winxp/linux)
- winxp + drivers for win = 5 msec of latency
- linux agnula + jack with the same computer and card = 2msec of latency
regards/