Re: ProTools vs. Ardour. Why spend the money??????????

bull.finch@yahoo.com <bull.finch@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been looking at selling my Protools rig and going completely Open
> Source as far as software is concerned.
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> Here is a link to the Ardour web page.
>
> http://www.ardour.org/

I understand your frustration with the next version of [name
your hardware or OS] breaking all kinds of things. Regardless
of your OS, applications or hardware the user is always faced
with the choice between upgrade chaos and the desire for some
new feature they can only get by upgrading. If you move to Open
Source stuff, then somewhere down the road you'll make a similar
post in a Windows newsgroup about whether going that route will
solve your troubles.

Having seen Windows, Linux, and Mac stuff in use. It seems to
me that Linux and Windows users have about the same amount of
work to do in order to get their systems to work. My Windows
friends seem just a bit more frustrated than I do; I use Linux.
My Mac friends seem more satisfied than either the Windows or
Linux crowds. In fact, every studio I've seen that uses PT has
is on a Mac. Why wouldn't you consider moving to a Mac first?

Having said all that, I just tied for the best recording of my
drum tracks that I've ever done in about 2 decades of recording.
The recent recording was done in my home studio with a SoundCraft
board, Behringer and Symetrix compressor/limiters, an M-Audio
Delta 1010 "card", Ardour 0.99.2, and the LADSPA plugins. The
recording that I tied was from about 10 years ago when a band I
was in paid for recording in a 24 track, 2" analog studio (that
used ProTools on a Mac for mastering). The caliber of that
studio was that the lobby was lined with gold records and gold
CDs, and their rates started at US$80/hr for their apprentice
engineers.

So, it is possible to do a good job with Linux tools. Whether
that fits your business needs and working style remains up to
you. I'm a hobiest musician in a hobiest studio with a limited
budget. I also have really good Linux skills already, so Linux
for music is a good fit for me.

G'luck...

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