Re: Moving From ProTools to Linux? Good or bad?

Gary M. Stewart wrote:

Ardour is really a darn good program if you take the time to learn the
terminology which is a bit different than the Mac and Windows world.

This is the primary reason why I'm having trouble with it. It looks like a DAW, but
the most fundamental thing necessary to set up a DAW - designate where the audio
comes from and where it goes to - is so different that I just didn't find it without a
lot of coaching. I suspect that:

1. Not every Windows DAW user trying Ardour will read the manual before starting the program
2. Every other Windows DAW user will have the same problem I had.

It's not something for which I blame Ardour, it's just human nature.

My biggest complaint with the Linux world and DAW work is that the VST and
VSTis don't work for the most part. Especially those requiring iLok or
Synchrosoft keys, AFAIK.
This sinks the platform for my work because Ivory, DoD etc are staples of
what I use daily.

Those things are of no concern to me at the moment. It may be a problem later on
when I find a use for those "accessories" and I think that anyone thinking of trying
Ardour should understand those limitations and either accept them in the interest
of learning something about the program (which is why I'm there) or simply decide
not to waste any time learning something that the won't be able to use, or at least
won't be any better than what they're already using. Maybe Ardour really is the only
way to send a 16-channel organ concert to 2700 speakers with some sort of spatial
processing, but then not everyone needs to do that. A lot of people have come to
depend on VST, DirX, or whatever they call ProTools plug-ins however.

Maybe I missed it, but exactly what problems are you having and what kind
of audio card are you using?

At the moment, I'm only having problems with the user interface and getting something
on the screen that shows me what I want to see and isn't cluttered. Window resizing
doesn't work quite the way I want it to. I can sort of do it, but I can't get it to stick that
way and have it start that way. I tried to save a "view" but Ctrl-F1 (Save View 1) gets
me a System Monitor window. And what about Snap? Snap is on. I want it off. I can snap
to all sorts of things, but I haven't found out how to disable it. Stuff like that is frustrating
enough to make me want to just give up before I give it a fair evaluation.

It should be a matter of starting qjackctrl (a gui front end for JACK),
plugging in your sample rate, buffers etc just like you would do with say
Maudio's panel, then starting ardour and it should run.

The programs I use let me do this within the program and the program talks
to the the hardware device (probably through the driver) to make those settings.

Oh, you may have to turn up the mixer slider because for some reason Linux
defaults to 0 volume. It's probably the most commonly asked question in the
Linux forums.

The Ardour mixer? That was never the problem.

If you are using the alsa mixer and have a delta card you need to turn up
DAC 0-3 I believe (I am doing this from memory).

I don't have a Delta card, I don't know if I'm using the ALSA mixer, and I have
no idea what a DAC 0-3 is.

Ardour won't even start correctly if Jack isn't running so if you get
passed that part you are well on your way.

It may not start correctly, but it will start, and it doesn't tell me "Hey, Dummy!
You have to start JACK before anything will work. Quit and do that first."



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