Did Ruckus Kill Schoolkids?
Chris Rossi
nospam at spacelabstudio.com
Fri Feb 29 14:38:22 EST 2008
jim.brantley at gmail.com wrote:
>
> On the topic of open source, have y'all seen this? http://ardour.org/
> Open source DAW, supposedly comparable to Nuendo, ProTools, et al. I
> PayPal-ed him some bucks. How cool that would be. I would love to run
> my studio on Linux using an open source DAW.
>
I've been eyeballing that project for years. For a long time my studio
computer was the only I had not running Windows. Given how much Vista
seems to suck for performance, and the inevitable sunsetting of XP at
some point, I would still love to be able to get off of the Windows
bandwagon. There are a couple of big things tying me to my Windows
setup, currently, though. UAD-1 cards. And Native Instruments plugins.
I have too much $$ wrapped up in those to leave them behind and I
haven't seen any evidence that I can take them with me, yet.
I did download Reaper the other day and will probably use it for a few
of my personal projects to get a feel for it. If it's good enough, I
might switch the paying customers to that. I've been unhappy, to say
the least, with the stability of Cubase. Although I haven't really
exercised too much their most recent free update, so maybe they've fixed
a lot of their stability issues. Still, given how those guys seem to
develop software, I'm reticent to buy into whatever the next big for-pay
upgrade is. I'm pretty tired of broken-ware.
chris
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