Musicians and linux

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I asked this on a computer BBS I frequent...

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=504515

When support for XP goes bye-bye, I'm seriously considering skipping micro$oft's latest offering.

One of the biggest reasons I haven't bailed already is the (lack of) linux support for music recording software and sound cards. I'd like to hear from musicians who do multitrack recordings with their non-M$ operating systems.

Limitations?

Hardware driver issues?

Increased efficiency (sans the M$ bloatware backbone)?


Could I just slap a Mac OS on a PC? Do I really need to say it - should I just get a friggin Mac?
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I got quite a few useful suggestions, but I mind as well ask the SOURCE of my recording info (this forum) what you think...
 
Easy enough. None of the real Professional audio devices have linux drivers.

Macs are great for pro audio, Pcs are great for pro audio. Ive never gotten why some people think they need more than the biggest studios in the world use to record digitally.
 
Hard2Hear said:
Easy enough. None of the real Professional audio devices have linux drivers.
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I've never had a need for anything more than a stereo input since I record one instrument at a time, so standard soundblaster technology suits me fine.
 
Take a look at Ardour/JACK. I used it for a little bit but needed a lot of XP functionality that I couldn't emulate with WINE. Will probably be going back to it soon.
 
When i built my daw i was gonna give Linux a try, but no drivers were available for my aging steinberg ADAT card so I'm forced to keep paying Mr. Gates.
 
one day we'll all go underground and be linuxers

i've been waiting since year and day

guess that waiting isn't the best thing to do, lets go flame on the linux forums and force people to write drivers for us!!
 
Hard2Hear said:
Easy enough. None of the real Professional audio devices have linux drivers.
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nitpick: fedora core CCRMA is built around RME HDSP which runs pretty amazingly in it
 
Yep, it depends what do you want to do. Tell us about what hardware is inside your PC.

I have an older PC, I got 1,2 ghz AMD, with 512 mb of RAM. Soundcard is Audigy 2 ZS. Works fine for me!

Ardour is great for multitrack audio recording, compiled it to support VST plugins too but I still use mostly LADSPA plugins. I don't use MIDI for sequencing, only for keyboards with soft synths, soundfont or sampler software plus MIDI-capable digital drums. For MIDI sequencing there are number of Linux software, Rosegarden, Muse, Seq24 ... and you can plug them together via Jack (audio server) with other software like Ardour - or anything that supports Jack.

I guess you should try Studio to Go -demo live CD.
http://www.studio-to-go.com

Here's some of my stuff I have made with Linux (3 first songs):
http://www.myspace.com/esalinna
 
Here is an entire recording and mastering studio, Mirror Image that has been using Linux for a couple of years.

Let me also pimp a blog entry I did a while ago about this.
 
I can confirm that the Delta 44 and Presonus Firepod work just fine.
 
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