Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > I started with Linux in November 2003. I bought SUSE LINUX Professional > 9.0 - Student Version. Since that 5 years I was never able to make music > with Linux. I bought a lot of new hardware and tried out several Linux. > > After having no success with Linux, I tested the Athlon 32-bit hardware > with Windows 98 se and XP running Cubase with VST FX and instruments. > When making music Windows 98 se and XP never crashed, there was no > jitter or sync problem and much more functionality, e.g. I could load > the whole setup, there wasn't the need to spend time for doing manual > work each time after startup. > > After I checked up the hardware by Windows, I only used Linux again, > that means that I didn't make music in my homestudio the last 5 years, > excepted when I tested the hardware with Windows. The actual hardware is > an Athlon 64-bit dual-core, I never tested this hardware with Windows. > > Actually I'm running Suse 11.0, 64 Studio Lenny, 64 Studio Etch. All > Linux can't be used to make music. > > Hi Ralf,
I sympathize with you, I'm in a similar situation and I've been running linux for about seven years, ever since I found out about Agnula. I think that 64Studio is a great distribution and you can't really do much better on linux. The 64Studio kernel is very good and they do a nice job with the packages, unfortunately I can't run it because it is based on etch and my hardware is too new. I've used cubase and logic on both windows and mac and yes, there are far fewer headaches (at least for the way I work). The strength and weakness of linux is diversity. There are too many programs that all provide similar functions and so the energy is scattered, not to mention all of the different distros these programs are supposed to run on. I started using linux because on windows I had a hardware firewall, software firewall, anti-virus software, anti-hijacking software, anti-spyware software and the latency was pretty bad. The people who write the software for logic and cubase have full-time jobs writing code all day that pay well. The people who develop Rosegarden do not. I really appreciate all of the hard work that goes into writing something as complex as Rosegarden or Ardour but the truth is (especially in the case of Rosegarden and Zynaddsubfx) that I don't know if they will function as intended from one release to the next or from one distro to the next or with the next version of jack or whatever and this, of course, is quite frustrating. Perhaps you and I have just had bad luck or some of the software is buggy with our particular hardware or a certain feature only works when the moon is full. If I recall correctly I once had everything working on Agnula and I was excited because I thought everything would just get better. It has not. There are new versions of programs that are released when serious bugs in the previous version were never resolved. Linux is developing so quickly that it has got to be quite a chore for all of the developers to keep up. This affects not only audio programs but all of linux. In my opinion microsoft operating systems just aren't very good. I haven't run a mac since the days of OS9 and the 400 mghz iMac but if you look at their forums and mailing lists you'll see that they have their problems too. So all of this so far is not to criticize any particular operating system or any particular programs but just to let you that I sympathize with you and I understand your frustration and also to say that I appreciate all of the hard work that has gone into linux audio. Now for some positive suggestions. I'm not a very good keyboard player but if I had spent half of the time that I spent on linux sequencing practicing the keyboard I'd be pretty good by now and I could just play the parts into Ardour. You can always just pick up an instrument and play. You can also just forget about it. I've found computers to be very addictive and I have a two and a half year old boy, so instead of sitting him in front of a video and hacking away at the computer we went outside and planted strawberries, peppers and grapes. Because of my linux frustrations I now have strawberries, peppers and grapes. If those solutions don't appeal to you, I now have things working pretty well on Sidux. They have a nice rt kernel (not in the official repository) though I'm still looking forward to 64Studio 3.0. Ralf, I wish you lots of luck and thanks to 64Studio for doing such a great job with the resources available in linux. Sincerely, Arthur > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 64studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users > _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
