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Looks nice, particularly the piano roll. Do any Free DAWs have Ableton-like VST "hiding"? I can't leave Ableton because of how insane window management gets on

by Mizza 5y ago

Looks nice, particularly the piano roll. Do any Free DAWs have Ableton-like VST "hiding"? I can't leave Ableton because of how insane window management gets on complex projects when 10 different VSTs are all fighting for screen space. Even the screenshots for this app look chaotic from all of the VSTs covering the screen at the same time.

maximedupre 5y ago
> Even the screenshots for this app look chaotic from all of the VSTs covering the screen at the same time. That's one of the first things I noticed - how messy it looks. Perhaps that's just because they tried to showcase all the features in one single screenshot lol.
PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
Due to your question, I just added this feature to Ardour. There's now a user preference that if set will only allow one plugin GUI window to be visible at a time. Lots of our users would find that irritating, but you get the choice now. https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/commit/c7b70c6318456b375ccb92f8dd745ddec72ce882 https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/commit/c7b70c6318456b375ccb...
- Mizza 5y ago
  That's awesome! I've had Ardour on my systems for years, since the first Ubuntu Studio, thanks for all your work!
  - themodelplumber 5y ago
    Some Qs I've had about this recently in case you or someone else could offer insights: Is it realistic to run Ardour for music composition on regular Intel sound hardware these days? Is it still pretty easy to migrate from Ubuntu to (presumably realtime) Studio? Thanks for any input; I'm interested in Ardour, Jack, etc. but not "buy new sound card" interested, as LMMS on ALSA is not too bad for what I do.
    - speed_spread 5y ago
      Ardour does not have significantly higher requirements than other audio software and should work just fine with any decent-ish machine. The audio interface is really up to you, it's just a matter of sound quality. If onboard audio suits you, then who are we to judge? I myself used the onboard audio with an external mixer for quite a while. I've since upgraded to a 24 track FireWire rig assembled from cheap used hardware that no longer ran on Mac or Windows because of obsolete drivers. In-tree drivers is major advantage of Linux when it comes to hardware support.
    - marcan_42 5y ago
      You don't need a fancy card for music production if you're not recording external audio. As long as it has decently good quality output and you're either using amplified speakers, a headphone amp, or it has a good enough internal amp, you can get away with internal audio. You'd be surprised at how many music producers do all their work on a laptop and headphones these days. If you just want to mess around, any internal card will do for sure. This applies to all DAW work on Linux regardless of what app you use. LMMS, Ardour, it's all the same. JACK runs peefectly fine on internal cards.
- marcan_42 5y ago
  And this is why I use Ardour. It just keeps getting better and the devs are amazingly responsive! I'm really looking forward to Ardour 7 :-)

by Mizza 5y ago

maximedupre 5y ago

> Even the screenshots for this app look chaotic from all of the VSTs covering the screen at the same time. That's one of the first things I noticed - how messy it looks. Perhaps that's just because they tried to showcase all the features in one single screenshot lol.

PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago

Due to your question, I just added this feature to Ardour. There's now a user preference that if set will only allow one plugin GUI window to be visible at a time. Lots of our users would find that irritating, but you get the choice now. https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/commit/c7b70c6318456b375ccb92f8dd745ddec72ce882 https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/commit/c7b70c6318456b375ccb...

Mizza 5y ago
That's awesome! I've had Ardour on my systems for years, since the first Ubuntu Studio, thanks for all your work!
- themodelplumber 5y ago
  Some Qs I've had about this recently in case you or someone else could offer insights: Is it realistic to run Ardour for music composition on regular Intel sound hardware these days? Is it still pretty easy to migrate from Ubuntu to (presumably realtime) Studio? Thanks for any input; I'm interested in Ardour, Jack, etc. but not "buy new sound card" interested, as LMMS on ALSA is not too bad for what I do.
  - speed_spread 5y ago
    Ardour does not have significantly higher requirements than other audio software and should work just fine with any decent-ish machine. The audio interface is really up to you, it's just a matter of sound quality. If onboard audio suits you, then who are we to judge? I myself used the onboard audio with an external mixer for quite a while. I've since upgraded to a 24 track FireWire rig assembled from cheap used hardware that no longer ran on Mac or Windows because of obsolete drivers. In-tree drivers is major advantage of Linux when it comes to hardware support.
  - marcan_42 5y ago
    You don't need a fancy card for music production if you're not recording external audio. As long as it has decently good quality output and you're either using amplified speakers, a headphone amp, or it has a good enough internal amp, you can get away with internal audio. You'd be surprised at how many music producers do all their work on a laptop and headphones these days. If you just want to mess around, any internal card will do for sure. This applies to all DAW work on Linux regardless of what app you use. LMMS, Ardour, it's all the same. JACK runs peefectly fine on internal cards.
marcan_42 5y ago
And this is why I use Ardour. It just keeps getting better and the devs are amazingly responsive! I'm really looking forward to Ardour 7 :-)