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Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
so realistically - do not try to use Linux as a daw, that's the truth.
The software is not mature enough, you depend on wine or cross-over as an abstraction layer for plugins, your hardware is either unsupported or reverse engineered which has an impact more than you normally see when you try to use low latency kernels, and even if by some magic you manage to overcome this, next week an update to libc will screw you.
for a DAW you need a.) supported hardware b.) supported OS c.) stability working within a and b.
I'm a Linux user %100 (although I am typing this from a clients laptop on windows at the moment) I don't use windows, but for my daw, I use a mac as its as close to a stable and supported Linux desktop experience that I can get to do my daw work.
I use Linux for a job and personally at home, I've got commits into grown up packages and I just don't consider it a viable platform for a DAW at this point in time.
This is maybe best demonstrated by the fact I use Linux at work and at home. At work I sometimes have 20+ terminals open, at home I might occasionally open one, usually because it's a faster way for me to move something.
I disagree on this - while you depend on wine for plugins, or software drivers (as you rightly say) either not existing or being reverse engineered, you're just way off even starting to use Linux as a daw, let alone a dependable stable one. There are lots of good daw software options, but while the underlying platform is not fit for purpose, it's just a none starter and waste of time to %99 of the people who want a daw, and only people with an interest on the platform will pick it up
I fair point on the real time kernel, but I still think you need it when you hit certain devices eg: two devices acting as s slave from your world clock, but that's not really an every day situation.
If I understand correctly, there are plenty of windows hotfixes which are basically packaged-up commands. Not so common in Linux because there's a belief it's better to get things fixed at source, even if it takes longer, and that encouraging people to run binaries blind is a bad thing.
digitalscream - did you actually use this Linux setup to record your album ?
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself