Linux and audio pro 3815
Noah Roberts Put it this way...if you don't like it then you can always buy something else...
Lorin David Schultz
Exactly. Really the only thing not finding a big time studio or album made with Linux tools means is either we don't know what all the big time studios use or are trying (I couldn't tell you what most of the albums I listen to where made with if my life depended on it), or that nobody that has tried it was a big time studio who probably want to stick to what they have until the little guys test it out better.
Not yet. When it has the feature set people want, somewhere down the line but NOT YET, then I am 100 percent sure many professionals will jump on it, as they...
Linux audio is new in comparison to much else. Certainly it can improve in some areas because it is improving at an incredible rate that even amazes me who has YEARS of experience with this OS, and because the more it is used the more it will change and adapt. This is all true.
However, the original poster (the one pre-crosspost that I only saw through replies) indicated they wanted to use Linux in a home studio. Well, I do use Linux in a home studio and it works for me. What I can do others can do. It is also used by at least *some* pro studios and musicians. Whether the other pros want to look at these ones and say, "Well they are small time and don't count," or not makes no difference and frankly just sounds snobbish and petty (besides the fact that most of what comes out of the big time studios these days is garbage - its the small time and ameteur that is the good stuff). A LOT of "serious" work is done in Linux audio even if a lot more is done elsewhere.
So when I read these "pros" bashing Linux for use in a home studio I am frankly appalled. First off they know nothing about Linux because their time and energy has been devoted to a different set of tools. Being an expert in that set of tools is great, and unless you become dissatisfied with them for some reason (as Mirror Image apparently did) there is 0 reason to switch (less even), but that gives you no reason or credibility when talking bad about systems you don't know and recommending people to stay away from them. Then you have gone from someone with experience worth talking to and changed into an idiot who is not.
There are many reasons to choose Linux to do your work. Some are technical, some are monetary, some are social in nature. Linux can, and for some people does, make a fine DAW among other things it can do for you. All other nonsense buttide.
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