On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:43 +0300, Mehmet Okonsar wrote: > As a prospect Linux user I'd like to get a better idea on the following: > > 1-is there an Acid on Linux? I mean an audio multitrack with beat detection > and synchronization No. There no good timestretching libraries for open source applications at this time. There are good people working on this and beat detection code, but its not ready yet. > 2-Where is the LinuxSampler in its development stage? Does it read Giga > files without any or some trouble(s)? Others know much more than me, but I get the sense that the engine is at about the 99% level with regards to Giga files; the GUI may not be as far along. > 3-is there a Vegas alternative with audio and video multitrack effects > etc..? there are no good combined audio/video multitrackers. ardour is a powerful audio multitrack environment, without video. cinelerra is powerful (some say hard to use; it requires major CPU horsepower) video non-linear editor with audio, but its audio facilities are primitive compared to ardour, and it does not use JACK (the last time i looked, anyway) which means it cannot be integrated with other linux audio tools like JAMin. you can sink xjadeo, a simple single-format video player, to ardour or other JACK apps. so it depends on what you want to do. > 4-how any reverb, dynamic processing and EQ plugins in Linux compare with > the most professional (i.e. expensive) audio plugins? How one can compare > them with the acoustic modeling reverb, "Ozone" suite of mastering tools, > "Waves" mastering tools and dithering? It depends mostly on what you actually think of expensive plugins. Most people tend to think that nothing really compares with the Waves stuff, on any platform, and they might be right. The better of the existing LADSPA plugins are at the level of the best free/lowcost plugins for the most part, a few of them are very very good and compare favorably to costly plugins (though perhaps not waves). JAMin, which is what most people use for mastering on linux, is very powerful as long as you need what it does. if you are a productive and/or professional user of "pro-sumer" or "pro" audio software on the mac or windows, linux will probably be less useful to you at this time. the apps that we have are cool, but are generally not positioned to compete well with products developed explicitly for a paying studio engineering market. your mileage may vary. --p
