I wonder if any of the people flaming Linux pro audio have even tried it any time in the last four years -- the improvements just recently have been amazing. Regarding Ardour, I wouldn't be that surprised if they hadn't tried it since Ardour 2.x and Jack 1. I really couldn't ask for more in a DAW than its current state. Where I do get envious of the Mac/Windows world sometimes is some of their plugins for simulating certain colorations. Universal Audio has very intersting plugins for emulating tape saturation, classic mixer console channel strips, and the Roland Dimension D rackmount chorus. They require hardware acceleration from a special DSP (available either in a PCI card or an external firewire box), and thus probably a special driver -- an even bigger barrier to Linux compatibility than the programs themselves. But these UA plugins really do get me drooling... Izotope Ozone's mastering suite is something else we don't have anything in the ballpark of. I don't know if it would be possible to run something that big under Wine with WineASIO or not. It's quite a large set of applications. Anyway, despite all this, I'm not planning on leaving Linux. It's currently giving me far more than I had when I started (in the era of tape and hardware sequencing), and it's getting better every year. -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
