State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all

[valis]

I'm in no way trying to provoke questions about S|C support of Linux, as I don't expect that's a priority for them these days. So I would request that we just stick to chatting about recent Linux Audio experiences in general, though of course I have no real control over such things. Anyhow...
State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all

[netguyjoel]

I run Linux on this laptop...played around with Ardour (really nice for oss), Wine, there is hope. I like the stability & speed. Now all that's left is for some hardware & software devs to make it happen. S|C developing an OSX driver brings them just that much closer to the party...

[dawman]

PianoTeq works fine with Linux and sounds great.
With a cheap ass 2.6GHz P4 Laptop, and a lightweight 88 note USB powered controller, one could serenade his woman at night outside her window ( just like the movie Easy Money w/ Rodney Dangerfield ) with enough battery power to run small speaks and the controller.
This is the fastest way to a Mexican girls heart as they are still rooted in romantics and tradition. American women would laugh or think you were Gay or something.
I always wanted to do this with one of them Bull Fighting outfits and greased back hair.
Linux and a Dell laptop could do this easily........

Sexy-Bull-Fighter.jpg

LINUX, babes and PianoTeq.

[netguyjoel]

BBBBBOOOOOIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!

Jimmy, I'm still not gay....and happily married...

[kensuguro]

here's my shot not too long ago, that spanned for several months and multiple tries to get a good working setup. Long story short, the experience was very much a waste of time.

http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php ... ilit=linux
http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php ... ux#p204362
http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php ... ilit=linux
http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php ... ux#p208741

[valis]

Indeed I recall that. I actually use linux a lot in non-audio work and periodically wish that it was a bit easier to play with musically. It's funny that for web-development & other server related tasks I find linux to be much easier to manage on a small scale than a windows host (both remotely and via virtual machine here), but for audio work things always seem to be in such a state of disarray (up to the user to spend the energy to get it working.)

I do have the luxury of having RME-supplied drivers which actually work well (assuming I want to give up my primary workstation & audio interface for playing in linux), but the rest of the soundcards I have are very hit & miss. Only the consumer cards work (aside from the RME) and they tend to be both poor quality (realtek & creative labs) and not really suited to musical work. I have an M-audio interface that should be supported by the generic firewire interface(s) I've tried, but there always seems to be clipping somewhere in the signal path and the SPDIF connection isn't working properly (it won't slave.) It would be nice if that worked because I could quite easily dual-boot the laptop to have some fun linux toys on call when I wanted them (I have some csound & PD experience in my distant past I could call on perhaps.)

At0m also pointed out in IRC the lack of space he gave to Jack (mentioned in the comments?) but I didn't think this article was intended to serve as a pro audio piece specifically. Rather it seemed to me that this article was intended to point at a path towards reducing some of the duplication of effort going on on the OS level, and also as a sort of counterpart to the Vista 'audio features' articles that were emerging during its genesis (the ones about sliders on each app and so on, features that it seems these new audio systems have taken to heart.)

So I agree with you Ken. As far as musicians go it's still far from what we have on offer commercially. But I still

[valis]

Btw, I may have mentioned it in other threads but linux (and Irix in the past) is actually quite good for certain graphics and video related tasks. It is much easier it was to manage large projects that share resources between machines (workstations etc) in an environment where everything is accessed in a similar fashion. Project resources are very easy to move around & catalog, the only real downside being some of the legacy issues with archival methods, but they're easy to work around and are no different than similar issues on Win & Mac. So I can see where projects like Ardour do have potential, it's just unfortunately not relevant to what I do in my personal studio.