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Linux and Audio Production: Simplicity Required

Submitted by Uraeus on Fri, 2005-07-22 06:28. Gnome Multimedia

Jono Bacon has an interesting article on O'Reilly talking about the challenges still facing him as a musician when using GNU/Linux based solutions. If you have an interest in helping improve the Multimedia experience under Linux you should take a look at the article to get some ideas for areas to investigate and work on in order to improve the situation. Many people are interested in sorting out the USB soundcard issue for instance, but nobody has had the resources to take on the coding for it yet.

Jack by Anonymous George

linux audio is a joke by Anonymous George

you are probably right...

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-07-22 11:49.

I am no audio expert, but since there are many professional audio people on the LKML discussing about the various real-time implementations and saying that Linux is used by thousands of people in Studio for recording, Iguess you are likely wrong.

not really a joke but way behind both Windows and MacOS X by cg0def

Not really the same

Submitted by Cybolic on Sat, 2005-07-23 06:29.

Well, conserning your complaining about consumer soundcards, then yes, they can be a pain to get running

But this is about professional audio, and as far as I can tell, at least the RME Hammerfall and Mbox seems to be working just fine, so professional audio work is quite possible hardware wise.

You also say that there is barely any audio software for Linux -that's just plain wrong. A quick look at linux-sound.org reveals several hundred audio applications for Linux, sure not all of them are up to date anymore, but I'm using about 5 different generic sound-editors, 4 soft-synths, 3 sequencers, 3 multitrack sound-editors and a few hundred effects - all native Linux applications and all quite up to date.

And using something like Ardour linked to jamin through JackRack or Rosegarden linked to Hydrogen is far beyond what any Mac or Windows audio application has ever offered me in terms of sheer power, and yes, user friendliness - and I have experience from working in a professional studio working with software and hardware costing tens of thousands of dollars.

Hmm by Anonymous George

There is a way to get Echo

Submitted by cg0def on Mon, 2005-07-25 01:06.

There is a way to get Echo Indigo working (like I said) but there seem to be some problems with the licencing of the driver. The person working on it is from EU and there was a period when it wasn't very sure if the driver was legal or not but you have to ask him for more detail. Also I did not buy my equipment in order to do pro sound in linux. I only gave linux a go because I wanted to see if it has finally gotten ready to replace Windows. And my biggest problem was not really with getting the driver but getting the hardware recognized. PCMCIA on nforce3 with amd64 apparently is about the worst combination in linux.