Looking for a good DAW focused distro and apps
Ok all - here's the thing
Right now, I use a mix of Win7, PC-BSD, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu on my work/home machines (depending on what they do) so I am comfortable with all. The trouble is, I have been getting really heavy into DJ/Electro/House music again, and all my old software is OSX (PPC) based stuff. Been playing with demos of products and suggestions, and right now I am planning to drop $500+ on Ableton Live (my favorite from the ones I've tried, like Logic, ProTools, Reason). Is there *anything* nearly as good for linux? I'd rather donate this money to Linux or a charity than use it to make a corporation richer. I've tried Ubuntu Studio a bit, but I couldn't figure out how to get simple stuff like rex loops and VST plugins to work. I had a heck of a time trying to get my Akai and M-Audio gear working, and ended up giving up on it. Does anyone do serious music production under Linux? Do you have any pointers? I need stuff for live performance, authoring (AIFF and MP3), and mixing. It needs to be stable and flexible, so that I don't waste composing/performing time screwing with it - and if it's under Wine... why bother? /edit FYI - I have read the other DAW threads that seem to pop up on here every couple years, but none seemed to end with "This is working great!" or anything positive. |
hi
you may like these links? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LV2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation mainly plugins info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari..._audio_editors mainly distro names and software names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...audio_software |
Thanks - There's a couple there I haven't checked out yet (Traverso, for example). I will keep poking into it, and lurking on the Ubuntu Studio forums.
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Quick update (so that this thread doesn't end up like the others)
I have Ubuntu Studio 64bit 11.04 Beta (for various reasons) running on my laptop. It's screaming fast, I'll give it that. My latency is between 5-15ms normally, while it was 75-100ms under my (vendor image) Win 7 64 install. This is very good. I am still trying to learn Ardour and LMMS - the learning curve is *extremely* steep on these (at least for me). MIXXX however is fantastic, and I've had a lot of success with it in my test rehearsals. If anyone wants to point out something that approximates Ableton Live for live performances/remixes (especially the minimalist live performance view and tools - the 'authoring' piece is approximated well by LMMS), I would be VERY grateful. |
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