Hi Arthur :) maybe I should send this email off-list, but maybe this will help people making understand, that there are some people that really can't spend much money and that there are no alternatives to make music without a DAW.
Just thinking about how much Guitar strings are in Germany, I'm happy to have keyboards, even if I'm not a keyboarder, but a guitar player. > Hi Ralf, > > I have already addressed the issue of linux audio not being perfect. > You are running wine and maybe (I don't know) vst programs and other > things that make a difficult thing more difficult. I'm not using reaper any more, I'm only using Linux applications without VSTs. I get those errors even if not using DSSIs, LADSPAs and LV2s, when only using Linux applications. I get no errors when using non-audio Linux applications. > I now have things running well on Sidux and Archlinux (not an > advertisement, I still like 64Studio) and for those jumping into this > post without memorizing my previous posts, my hardware is too new and > I can't run 64Studio (just yet). Try to simplify and do some soul > searching about what you really need. I'm sorry for not being a linux > guru and being more helpful technologically, but I would say, go back > to basics and start making MUSIC. > The truth is that a creative person can make music on an old 4 track > reel-to-reel (or some logs and a couple of sticks). You strike me as > an intelligent person. Get creative and work with what you've got. > And please post what you come up with, I'd like to hear your music.. I try to set a Linux DAW, because my Yamaha MT44D and 2 DAT recorders are defect. I also have no SMPTE for my Atari any more. I did less recordings, especially homerecordings in the last 15 years, I'll do some homerecording again. Getting my non-computer equipment running, or playing with other musicians, without recording, is much more expensive. I can repair or build audio equipment myself, I have service manuals, a friend has got good repair equipment, but the coasts to repair or build new are to high. Playing with musicians, you need a room, such rooms, were it's allowed to make music. Those rooms are very expensive in Germany, you only can make music at special times, not the whole day and those rooms are world war II bunkers, without windows, the electricity rate is very high, higher than for home use and you have to wait for a small room. You can't do orchestral music there, only loud rock, because the rooms next to your rooms will have rock bands playing bad, but loud. I can try "Sidux and Archlinux" too, but Suse 11.0, 64 Studio Lenny and 64 Studio default are not fine, all with different settings and versions of Linux, but the same roubles. The other thing is, that I'm jobless and to do jobs, there is the need to have recording equipment. I don't need anything, I can make music in my thoughts and I also don't need a job as musician, but ... Because of my social standing, I decided not to become a father. Because I don't like war, I decided not to join the German army, in Germany that was a crime, with a higher sentence than people got who rape and torture children. Because I'm highly gifted I fail the German school system. Because I don't like capitalists, I'm in fight with German music business. I know people like Brauner, from Brauner microphones, we were friends from childhood until some years ago. Capitalism sucks! I won't write about my whole life, what I will say is, that having a DAW for me is the only thing I expected for the last few years I still have got, if I have a few years. So ... Recording some music in a homestudio is the least I do expect. I'm fine with a 4-Track cassette tape after well measuring, a consumer DAT for mastering and a SMPTE synced sequencer. I have enough equipment, but especially the 4 Track and my DATs are defect. But getting a 4-Track running with good enough quality is more expensive than to buy completely new computer hardware again, I don't have the money for completely new computer hardware. I'm not fine with 4-Track that has no good sound and I'm not fine with sticks and logs. I'm fine with having less to eat, no money for the doctor, holes in my clothes, but I'll work night and day on my DAW, even if it will be a Windows DAW, if Linux won't run. I do understand what you are saying. But my situation is, that I will do homerecoding and the less expensive way is doing it by using a DAW. Other people of my social standing are junkies, sitting the whole day at railway stations, instead they also could play with sticks and logs, but humans have needs and if you are down you only need one thing. A DAW will be that one thing for me, a DAW is heroin for me. That's why I test things the whole day and write one email after the other. Cheers, Ralf
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