RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

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