

Most people go to the movies or whatever, I spend my free time with Ardour. I'm not a professional, but I see it as the cost of entertainment.

Now its solid enough of a DAW for Harrison to build Mixbus off of it. I first tried using it about 8 years ago and it was awful. Ardour takes a lot of work and the work is definitely put in there. Ardour team will let you make a one-time donation or a monthly donation as little as $1. The only thing I do with MIDI in the DAW is occasionally record MIDI tracks from my electric drum kit or one of the synths and then feed that back out to whatever hardware to track different sounds.įinally, you should consider contributing something to the projects you use, especially if you're making some money of it. The MIDI abilities are a little lacking but with 6.0 that's supposed to get addressed.
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I did finally install a Windows partition a few months ago for updating firmware on various synths and sequencers but that's all I use it for.Īrdour is pretty close to "One App to Rule them All", as you put it. Even when I started recording on the computer I couldn't bring myself to go back to Windows. I've been exclusively Linux for everything, audio and otherwise, for about 12 years now. you'll just wind-up using the free apps and plugs, instead of buying new stuff or even going through the trouble of warezing. works much better than 8-11 did for me.īut no matter what.

If you want windows / mac style workflow on Linux than bitwig is your guy.
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Renoise, Bitwig, Ardour, Tracktion, Reaper and EnergyXT are the big players in the "One App to Rule them All" audio software style.īut there's just so much "free" in Linux that you wind up just using the "free stuff."Īnd jack is such an important bridge to learn to use, you just wind-up using it instead of opening a plug-in. You get a "session handler" and use JACK (A Low latency audio backend) to connect different apps to "create your own daw" so to speak. In Linux audio is a collective effort and no one uses one app. If your going to make music on Linux you may have to let go of the windows / MacOS way of doing things: "one App to rule them all." isn't the way things are done in Linux (all though you can find a few apps that do pull this off). It's a hobbyist setup but i can do what i want with it and i do make money off it. My DJ rig runs Mixxx 2.1 alongside Mixmeister 7 in WINE I just installed the KX Studio Repos on my ubuntu boxes and got going.
