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

philicorda wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:13:44 -0800, Neil Gould wrote:

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if the question is: can a person with no experience of linux
install it on a random computer with a random audio interface and
within N hours be using the machine as a multitrack recorder and
editor ... then the answer is almost certainly no (though allowing
for serendipity and being generous, "maybe" is an alternative).

If that is the question at hand, then the answer lies in whom is best
served by the Linux DAW offerings. For example, I was able to do
exactly this task with BeOS, which was no more familiar to me than
Linux would be to the average user. Still, the OS installation
worked without a hitch, and I wasn't presented with any non-standard
audio production terminology without meaningful translation.

Are you sure you did this with BeOS? 3dmix was a demo app, extremely
limited and playback only. I don't remember any multi-track audio
recording software being available. There was a C-sound port, but that
ain't exactly user friendly.

To be clear, I was speaking of the OS installation, as there weren't any
BeOS DAW apps of significance. But, IIRC (and it has been some time) those
demos that were available used terminology familiar to me. Was your
experience significantly different?

The low latency audio performance was terrible too, despite the hype.
(I even had one of the few 'pro' sound cards supported, and most of
the consumer ones).

You are speaking of tweaks, not the kind of show-stoppers that Mike and
Lawrence have experienced. Considering that BeOS did not advance much beyond
a proof-of-concept OS (except perhaps for a couple of embedded uses), I
think the comparison between user experiences with it vs. Linux are notable.

It would have been nice if Beos had worked out, but paradoxically,
Linux which was never intended as a 'media OS' performs far better.

Well, as an OS agnostic, the only thing I regret about the failure of Be is
the fact that my stock tanked. ;-)

The point I was trying to make is that DAW users as a whole are not all that
interested in the OS, and that Windows and Mac application developers have
come to understand this.

--
Best,

Neil




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