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I've used it for recording music, combining some MIDI tracks with many audio tracks and samples. Once the audio system was set up and stable, working with Ardou
by dvirsky 9y ago
I've used it for recording music, combining some MIDI tracks with many audio tracks and samples. Once the audio system was set up and stable, working with Ardour was a pleasure and results were very good.
The main problem was getting high quality effects/plugins, paid or free. There are a couple, but in general life is much easier in this sense outside of Linux. That was 2-3 years ago, and hopefully things have improved since.
- karlgrz 9y agoThe CALF Plugins are pretty excellent, for the most part. Those are free (as in beer and as in speech, IIRC). http://calf-studio-gear.org/ http://calf-studio-gear.org/
- dvirsky 9y agoThose were the main ones I worked with, plus another commercial package, I forgot its name, which was decent. The Calf compressor and bass enhancer were very good. I'm seeing that a lot of plugins have been added in the time since I last worked with Ardour. Makes me want to start making music again :)
- karlgrz 9y agoNothing like knocking the rust off :-)
- ristic 9y agoUnfortunately, the CALF series have been notorious for having problems or causing crashes in the past. If you do want to try it out, I highly recommend getting the latest version or building from git as a lot of distributions package an older version in their repositories.
- dvirsky 9y agoI actually didn't experience that issue.
- ristic 9y agoThings are slowly getting better if you want to run Windows VSTs under Linux. I found this very interesting as a overview of some of the current possibilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsZnSg4DKDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsZnSg4DKDU It is a demonstration for a proprietary DAW, Bitwig, but he does talk a lot about Windows plugins under Linux that I imagine applies to Ardour as well.