On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net>wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 00:36 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: > > > > i'll use what i want for my professional needs, and you use what you > > want. > > Mike, that isn't the point. You said that I spread misinformation. I > simply would explain that you can't recommend Ardour for professional > usage when you record big orchestras, where nothing can be cut, copied > and pasted. The musicians need to play 60 minutes or longer without > fault (but they will fault several times), the company, e.g. the WDR > needs to pay an "VIP" audio engineer [1], a studio hall, a studio truck, > catering etc. pp.. > > One crash could cost thousands of $ or €. > > You are thinking of small studios, that might do good jobs, but that's > not where the big money is made. > > Pardon Mike, please answer this questions) Did you ever made such an > orchestra recording using Ardour? Did you ever made any orchestra > recording in this price segment? > > I won't abuse you and I don't say that Ardour isn't a good application, > my intend is just to explain, that there is a professional audio branch > where using Ardour and of cause ProFools too can't be done. > > [1] VIP audio engineers puts their pants on the same way as we do, but > big companies like the WDR use their names to sell recordings. > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > hello again ralph actually, for my use, i do not delineate between "important" and "non-important" work. if its one person or several hundred, i treat those projects with the same level of personal professionalism. as a system stress test, whenever i add hardware (or a big software version change) i let JACK and ardour run for either several hours or overnite. i setup an ardour session with 8 channels recording at 24/96. not only is this a test case in which crashing is not an option, but i also have a personal zero xrun policy. IF i get an xrun, i relax the JACK settings, and try again. when that test is successful, i name that JACK preset "stable" and thats what i use for tracking live. if i were charging money for a session and got an xrun, i would not feel comfortable using the rig. the point i was trying to make was that all of these systems are capable of instability, whatever DAW on whatever OS. even those stand-alone digital hard disk recorders can 'crash'. computers crash. does this mean we cant use them in a professional setting? i choose to do some stress tests, and take the risk. in an analog studio, things break as well. the power can go out, tape breaks, cables go bad, or whatever. -- MH http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/ http://wnclug.ourproject.org/
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