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View Poll Results: Audio Authoring Application of the Year
Distribution: Fedora Core, and Gentoo eventually, but i hate (XKEU)buntu
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audacity is nice, but something just feels incomplete about it. I would really like to see something like ableton live as FOSS. Some programs do various feature that it has like Ardour, but nothing really in my opinion even comes close to it, But audadcity is nice for general purpose recording. I think that there is a problem in Linux of no truly good audio libraries.(i am not talking about alsa or Arts). Jack is cool but i think it adds unneeded levels of complicationl.
audacity is nice, but something just feels incomplete about it. I would really like to see something like ableton live as FOSS. Some programs do various feature that it has like Ardour, but nothing really in my opinion even comes close to it, But audadcity is nice for general purpose recording. I think that there is a problem in Linux of no truly good audio libraries.(i am not talking about alsa or Arts). Jack is cool but i think it adds unneeded levels of complicationl.
I've played with Pro Tools a little, we really don't have anything that easy and fucntional at the same time. When I listen to the sounds I've created though, Im getting it just as good as Pro Tools or Acid Pro.
I'm voting for Hydrogen, because I think it's a very clean and straight-to-the-point program that doesn't try to be too fancy, but does what you need. Of course, these applications don't really have much of a common denominator. Even Ardour and Audacity are miles apart in what they are trying to archieve, so it's not really fair to compare them.
My main criticism with Ardour is that they should have consulted audio professionals in the making. It definitely doesn't look like they did. The program works great, but the workflow is a disaster.
My main criticism with Rosegarden is that they should make up their minds what the program is supposed to do. It is not usable as a score editor, as it lacks basic features like double-staffs and independent voices. And it lacks editing features as a DAW and sampler.
I'm voting for Rosegarden4. It has come a long way in the last couple of years. However, it is still very buggy. The main thing it needs is a bugzilla to make sure that all the undesirable features get managed in a disciplined way.
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