OK, my two cents. I prefer FLOSS because of the huge freedom of choice. If only all of this stuff were interoperable, this would be utopia, but alas ... A commercial package will usually (!!) be more of a finish product because the authors have (more of!!) an incentive to make it nicer, easier to use for non- geeks, etc. I miss the old Cakewalk Home Studio (Sonar's little sister and a lot of bang for the buck) but my Windows-98 is dead. So I have several packages with similar work-flow: OOMidi (I have yet to get that one working, however), Ardour, QTractor, all have SOME of the ease of use and difficulties of their own. So now, enter Bitwig. I want to try the beta, see how it does. Maybe I will spring for it in the end (if I do not get it free for the beta-testing bother--I have several Windows programs on this basis!) if I really love it. I start out with Windows MIDI tools that work 99% with wine but need a package to put it all together, digitize, record live parts and mix down. Ardour3 or Qtractor might do it. Rosegarden is also a venerable and old alternative as well. (I also miss my rusty-trusty old dman2044 4 in-4 out sound card with its chunkly, proper breakout box, rue the day of those mini-connectors!) No reason not to accept really good proprietory software and not reason to accept a FLOSS solution that does not work for you. The object is the music. I also love geeking and tweeking, but that is another hobby/profession :-) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
