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Has Ardour come on much? I tried using it for years and years, tried Muse, Rosegarden etc. but switching to Logic Pro X suddenly meant I could get stuff done in

Has Ardour come on much? I tried using it for years and years, tried Muse, Rosegarden etc. but switching to Logic Pro X suddenly meant I could get stuff done instead of faffing around. JACK is truly great on Linux and I sponsored Ardour for a while, but last time I used it a few years ago, it was lagging feature-wise.

macawfish 10y ago
Well, Ardour has MIDI now, although I never got into it. I'm a producer, so I work with motifs and loops and themes and concepts. Doing this on a timeline, with a complicated interface, really takes it out of me. So I haven't Ardour it much, other than for mixing. In Logic, I used take folders for this, but never figured out a smooth workflow for composing in Ardour. If you are making linear, arranged music, Ardour definitely has all the features to produce it. Although I can't speak for usability or stability, cause I never really invested the time to learn it. I think of Ardour as akin to Pro Tools (which I can't stand BTW!). It's linear and clunky. It's got powerful busing features, a timeline with all kinds of markers and annotations. The stuff I did on Ardour always came out sounding real clean. It's funny, I did most of my work on QTractor. It has a dead simple interface, easily modifyable shortcuts, and is surprisingly powerful. The only thing is that it's missing an obvious bounce feature that works for MIDI instrument plugins. So I'd have to route my master track to a "bounce" track, then record to that. Linux is missing a quality, simple, open source non-linear sequencer (audio/MIDI). Something like Seq24 crossed with SooperLooper. Something like Ableton or Bitwig, but just the cliplauncher part. That's why I caved in and went to Bitwig. I was going through some stuff and just needed to make some music. There's also something to be said about having lots of presets and samples ready to go. On Linux, you gotta bring your own settings.

macawfish 10y ago

Well, Ardour has MIDI now, although I never got into it. I'm a producer, so I work with motifs and loops and themes and concepts. Doing this on a timeline, with a complicated interface, really takes it out of me. So I haven't Ardour it much, other than for mixing. In Logic, I used take folders for this, but never figured out a smooth workflow for composing in Ardour. If you are making linear, arranged music, Ardour definitely has all the features to produce it. Although I can't speak for usability or stability, cause I never really invested the time to learn it. I think of Ardour as akin to Pro Tools (which I can't stand BTW!). It's linear and clunky. It's got powerful busing features, a timeline with all kinds of markers and annotations. The stuff I did on Ardour always came out sounding real clean. It's funny, I did most of my work on QTractor. It has a dead simple interface, easily modifyable shortcuts, and is surprisingly powerful. The only thing is that it's missing an obvious bounce feature that works for MIDI instrument plugins. So I'd have to route my master track to a "bounce" track, then record to that. Linux is missing a quality, simple, open source non-linear sequencer (audio/MIDI). Something like Seq24 crossed with SooperLooper. Something like Ableton or Bitwig, but just the cliplauncher part. That's why I caved in and went to Bitwig. I was going through some stuff and just needed to make some music. There's also something to be said about having lots of presets and samples ready to go. On Linux, you gotta bring your own settings.