Linux is More than Ready For Professional Audio. Here is Proof! 1670

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:24:14 +0000, SentinelT

I'm not one to argue with success but for me in my studio, Linux would never be able to cut it. Just the VST stuff like "The Grand II" or Waves or UAD, none of which will run under Linux. Also you sound like more of a one man operation, in that you have to produce output for a given client and all that matters is the end result. I am recording clients and they expect a certain set of industry standard gear in my studio. Telling them I have Linux instead of say Nuendo is a certain way to not get the gig.

You can. I can't and most people I know can't either.

It works for you because you aren't really dealing with the clients themselves doing the recording, at least from your description.

The first time a client wants Auto-Tune you will have lost that client.

It depends. If I thought for a second advertising that I use Linux would bring me extra gigs I would but the truth is Linux just doesn't make sense in the recording studio just yet. The price I pay for software is a small (tax deductible BTW) expense in relation to the gigs I am able to accept because I am using industry standard tools.

In fact I got into this Linux vs everything else discussion with a friend the other day and while both of us agree having free software, free of copy protection and so forth is nice....having clients is more important and using Linux is certainly no way to get clients.