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I wonder if you've ever tried Ardour and what's your take on it as recording pro? Personally I think it's wonderful. I haven't used ProTool and Nuendo etc for y

by dvirsky 11y ago

I wonder if you've ever tried Ardour and what's your take on it as recording pro? Personally I think it's wonderful. I haven't used ProTool and Nuendo etc for years (I produced a couple of albums about 15 years ago, but haven't done much professionally since), but it seems very nice and produces great results IMO.

brusch64 11y ago
I am a big advocate of Ardour. But I really hope they get their act together and stop adding new features, but start making the release more stable. The last really stable and great version for me was the last of the 2.x releases. They improved the looks but there was always something that didn't work quite right. IN the 3.x series Midi was introduced, but it crashed all the time (and I've updated every time there was a new release). Now I am using 4.x and it is dog slow for big sessions (which I originally recorded and mixed in 2.x on a much lesser PC with no problems). I do understand their arguments. I know that they want to release something for Windows, Mac and Linux to improve their customer base (greatly). But I really hope that Ardour solidifies and they start improving the quality that it comes back to the quality of the 2.x releases.
- dvirsky 11y ago
  I used 3.5 about a year ago for a few months, and it was pretty stable once I got my Jack setup stable. It seemed like most problems were with iffy drivers and plugins. Installing everything from Ubuntu Studio's apt repos seemed to produce pretty stable setup and it was also pretty fast (I used a VERY strong machine thuogh). Haven't tried 4.0 yet.
  - brusch64 11y ago
    I didn't had any problems with Jack or plugins - the problem with 3.x was Midi editing. Well it was introduced in this release, but I did some drum programming (our drummer was sick, so we've programmed drums to our music) and it sucked. It was totally normal that Ardour crashed at least twice in the 1 or 2 hours when we were editing drums. And the devs knew that this problem existed, but they've basically told, that it should be fixed in 4.x.
    - dvirsky 11y ago
      I hardly did any midi with it, maybe that's why I didn't encounter that :)
Tunecrew 11y ago
Ardour looks pretty nice actually, but I haven't used it myself. Same goes for Reaper and Presonus Studio One. In the end, in my experience, it comes down to a few things: - stability and available support for problems - ability to share native sessions w/ other users (as opposed to just stems) - support for hardware (audio i/o and controllers, including mixing surfaces) - ease of use - so the interface and process doesn't get in the way of the creative process I am not necessarily a fan of ridiculous skeuomorphism in things like plugins, but at the same time a big knob or fader on the screen makes a lot more (and a lot quicker) sense to me than a little box w/ a hex value in it. I think the advent of touch screens in pro installations reinforces this - see Slate's Raven controllers, which are becoming very popular now - http://www.slateproaudio.com/products/raven-mtx/ http://www.slateproaudio.com/products/raven-mtx/ In the end though this is just me - more power to anyone making good music anyway they can.

by dvirsky 11y ago

brusch64 11y ago

I am a big advocate of Ardour. But I really hope they get their act together and stop adding new features, but start making the release more stable. The last really stable and great version for me was the last of the 2.x releases. They improved the looks but there was always something that didn't work quite right. IN the 3.x series Midi was introduced, but it crashed all the time (and I've updated every time there was a new release). Now I am using 4.x and it is dog slow for big sessions (which I originally recorded and mixed in 2.x on a much lesser PC with no problems). I do understand their arguments. I know that they want to release something for Windows, Mac and Linux to improve their customer base (greatly). But I really hope that Ardour solidifies and they start improving the quality that it comes back to the quality of the 2.x releases.

dvirsky 11y ago
I used 3.5 about a year ago for a few months, and it was pretty stable once I got my Jack setup stable. It seemed like most problems were with iffy drivers and plugins. Installing everything from Ubuntu Studio's apt repos seemed to produce pretty stable setup and it was also pretty fast (I used a VERY strong machine thuogh). Haven't tried 4.0 yet.
- brusch64 11y ago
  I didn't had any problems with Jack or plugins - the problem with 3.x was Midi editing. Well it was introduced in this release, but I did some drum programming (our drummer was sick, so we've programmed drums to our music) and it sucked. It was totally normal that Ardour crashed at least twice in the 1 or 2 hours when we were editing drums. And the devs knew that this problem existed, but they've basically told, that it should be fixed in 4.x.
  - dvirsky 11y ago
    I hardly did any midi with it, maybe that's why I didn't encounter that :)

Tunecrew 11y ago

Ardour looks pretty nice actually, but I haven't used it myself. Same goes for Reaper and Presonus Studio One. In the end, in my experience, it comes down to a few things: - stability and available support for problems - ability to share native sessions w/ other users (as opposed to just stems) - support for hardware (audio i/o and controllers, including mixing surfaces) - ease of use - so the interface and process doesn't get in the way of the creative process I am not necessarily a fan of ridiculous skeuomorphism in things like plugins, but at the same time a big knob or fader on the screen makes a lot more (and a lot quicker) sense to me than a little box w/ a hex value in it. I think the advent of touch screens in pro installations reinforces this - see Slate's Raven controllers, which are becoming very popular now - http://www.slateproaudio.com/products/raven-mtx/ http://www.slateproaudio.com/products/raven-mtx/ In the end though this is just me - more power to anyone making good music anyway they can.