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It's an Ableton ad disguised as a ted talk.

• mempko 7y ago
  It worked, I was like 'what program is that?' and found Ableton Live. I then said 'What is the free software alternative?' and found LMMS and Ardour. Go with the free software folks.
  • 72deluxe 7y ago
    I subscribed to Ardour for a while so that I could get the macOS version and the amount I paid towards Ardour I could have bought Logic Pro X that does about 500% more, including functioning MIDI, sorry to say. At the time Ardour did not have this, nor half of the other features I needed just for basic mixing and editing. Ardour development obviously has a very small team so they are constrained, but I am not sure going to Ardour simply because it is free software is a good reason if you actually want to get stuff done. Perhaps it has come on a lot since I used it. It relied on Jack under macOS when I used it, I think, which seemed odd to me instead of native audio bindings.
    • telesilla 7y ago
      I assume they use Jack so they don't have to maintain separate OS-specific code (for audio, that is quite a significant task).
      • 72deluxe 7y ago
        True. It was obviously a bit more awkward to use, that was all. Having said that, it was less frustrating that on Linux for me but that was back in the days of PulseAudio being garbage and Jack dropping samples left, right and centre on my sound card (using the ice module I think?). Anyway, I was just saddened by the money I spent on it versus the output I received. I ended up going to Logic Pro instead. EDIT: I wasn't trying to minimise the Ardour project's efforts BTW. It is a valiant effort and a monumental undertaking but I was more interested in making/recording music than software for that venture.
• fenomas 7y ago
  He's speaking at an Ableton user event; the audience is Ableton users.