On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:59:08PM -0700, osbusters@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Two things have changed my mind. > > The first is that I saw what looked like an upgrade from Ardour .99 (which > seemed an unusable beta version) to Ardour 2.2. Well I totally scrapped > everything "jack" on my system. Hooray! Ardour 2 is still unstable and should be clearly marked as such. I'm still happily using 0.99.3. > Secondly, there is an option on the later versions of Sonar and CubaseSX > that I find I don't want to do without, that I really can't. That is the > ability to "freeze" tracks and their respective plugins and vsti's to free > up resources. My cpu is only 1GHz and I find this option essential if I want > to put more than a couple of synths and a reverb on any one song. Ardour has had that feature for years :-) > I wish you all the best of luck. I surely hope and feel that enthusiasm and > the joy of discovery will ultimately win out, but for now, I have to lay > down some tracks. > > Check you guys later, and thanks for the support! Sure. Sorry things didn't work out for you. It's definitely not a quick-plug-in-and-play world over here. Luckily for me I don't do much synthesis nowadays so I don't need VSTIs. -- Paul Winkler
