Hi, I used CubaseSX for a solid year for Midi and recording work, and while everything tended to work ok, still it took me several months to learn to use the often quirky and non-instinctive interface. At one point I decided to input one of my favorite challenging Beethoven Piano pieces into the notation editor in Cubase. I got about half way through and saved. When I went to re-open the project the next day Cubase decided to apply some crazy algorithm turning the triplets into awfully grouped 64th notes. It was terrible. I quit using Cubase that day forever. not to mention that generally I didn't like the soft-synths and working on it gave me a kind of "icky" feeling. I've always had a superstition that the Windows kernel has bad vibes. Now I use Rosegarden and Qsynth and I love them both. And Ardour & Jamin are great too. The linux tools certainly have more bugs but they often dont have the clunky & poor work-around code that is probably necessary to get the proprietary software ready to ship ontime. and the bugs are predictable. I just try to stay away from the behavior that produces them (although this isn't always possible ;-D ). my 2-cents, Greg On 6/30/05, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > MarC wrote: > > > Today I wouldn't recommend hobbyists should use Linux Audio because in > > this way they will always be hobbyists... > > Actually, hobbyists will always be hobbyists until they acquire > professional levels of skill *and* put themselves to the test of > performance and/or distribution of their material. The gear they use > will not elevate their skills one jot. Owning a guitar does not confer > ability upon the owner. > > I will say this about modern music technology, regardless of platform: > It makes a lot of bad music sound much better at the surface level. > > > However, in my case, I've found Linux Audio very interesting to learn > > a lot about the audio software implementation (obviously because of > > the open source mentality) and also for understanding what kind of > > things can be done (for a user/developper point of view). But for > > productive work I simply can't recommend it because Pro Tools, > > Reason,..., and a huge availability of VST plugins are too far from us. > > Strange, I use VST plugins with Linux quite a lot here at Studio Dave. > Ardour seems to work pretty well for me too, and its price point is more > attractive to me. ;) > > Best is to use what works for you to make your own music. > > You can also thank whatever gods you believe in that M$ didn't make the > WAV format as proprietary as the DOC format... > > Best, > > dp > > >
