Re: Moving From ProTools to Linux? Good or bad?
- From: Mike Rivers <mrivers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:05:58 GMT
philicorda wrote:
As the drivers and software are included in the distribution, you could be up and running in minutes after installation. Ironically, this is only possible with free software.
I've been trying to complete one of my new year's resolutions today. I'm on my second pass of installing Ubuntu Studio. The first time through it said that there was no kernel installed (Do you want to continue without the kernel? It almost certainly won't work. <YES> <NO>) Not much different from Windows here. The first time through took about half an hour to get me to the point where it wanted to boot up in Linux. The second time is taking considerably longer.
Half the time, it will seem strange because you are used to the 'Windows Way'.
The rest of the time it is because the documentation is outdated, incomplete or misleading, and the Linux implementation is unnecessarily hard to use.
As I was watching it do the basic partitioning (yes, it does this, just as someone told me it would) it was using some terms that were completely unfamiliar, with no explanation. I just did the dumb thing and took what I assumed was the default. The mouse didn't work during the installation. Some things were selected with the space bar, some with the cursor keys, some with the TAB key, sometimes more than one would work, sometimes I had to find the right one.
I wasn't watching it all the time, but one time I saw the progress bar get to about 35% and then it popped off to do what I assume was its next step. Maybe that's where the kernel went.
Generally with mainstream Linux, the user is not expected to handle the details of updating, locating and installing drivers. There are some exceptions like optional propitiatory drivers for video cards. It's best to stick with the free video drivers anyway, as the propitiatory ones are sometimes not real time safe.
I guess if I get this thing installed, I'll be using the built-in sound card (for which I assume there's a driver) since I don't have anything else here that's supported by the ALSA project, so I assume it won't have a driver in the Studio package.
The Mackie ONYX firewire is supported. There is initial DICEII support in FFADO, so support for the Mackie 1200F and Presonus cards may not be that far off.
That's encouraging. I'll have to take another look at FFADO. Hmmm . . . if I interpret this correctly there are release candidates but no real relase yet. Though honestly, I'm having difficulty figuring out how to use the ffado.org web site. It's not as clear as "you got this device, download this driver." Or is there only one driver for everything, that keeps changing as stuff gets added to it?
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