Hi :) I started with Linux in November 2003. I bought SUSE LINUX Professional 9.0 - Student Version. Since that 5 years I was never able to make music with Linux. I bought a lot of new hardware and tried out several Linux.
After having no success with Linux, I tested the Athlon 32-bit hardware with Windows 98 se and XP running Cubase with VST FX and instruments. When making music Windows 98 se and XP never crashed, there was no jitter or sync problem and much more functionality, e.g. I could load the whole setup, there wasn't the need to spend time for doing manual work each time after startup. After I checked up the hardware by Windows, I only used Linux again, that means that I didn't make music in my homestudio the last 5 years, excepted when I tested the hardware with Windows. The actual hardware is an Athlon 64-bit dual-core, I never tested this hardware with Windows. Actually I'm running Suse 11.0, 64 Studio Lenny, 64 Studio Etch. All Linux can't be used to make music. The song I'm "working" on, one of many songs I started with Linux, can't be done with Linux, like all the other songs before. I need 8 minutes when startup is done, to start all needed applications, to connect them by jack_snapshot, doing some connections that jack_snapshot can't do manually, to do all fader positions again, because there isn't a functional mixer. I also did this today. I listened some minutes to the incomplete song, than I took a look at Rosegarden's matrix editor to make some notes on a sheet of paper, while doing this I played some notes, Rosegarden received from the USB MIDI in and ALSA MIDI connected by QJackCtl send the notes to QSampler. After a short time QSampler didn't do a sound any more, but Rosegarden with several Fluidsynth DSSI soundfonds, Jack Rack using GVerb, Jack EQ needed as aux channel mixer and Jamin still were fine. I restarted all applications without success. I restarted the session without success. I rebooted 2 times without success, but with a Jack error, the ALSA driver couldn't be started, after that I made a shutdown and than I turned on the computer again. Everything was "relative fine as usual". Artsmessages that there should be an error are standard, but they won't have any effect. I also get this messages when running the 64 Studio default Etch install, were I'm only running GNOME. Some application always will crash after a short while. I can play 1 or 2 beats a day, that will take some minutes, while wasting hours with errors and restarting every thing. It's okay that Linux is less functional than Apple and Microsoft based DAWs. E.g. because of the fascism that is forced by Apple, I won't use Apple and Microsoft. I won't quote agitation against minority ethnic communities now, I did this some time ago by links to sides from the Apple company. What can I do to get a stable Linux DAW? Is there a way to protocol audio sessions? If there isn't a way to get a Linux DAW work, I have to install and use Windows. I need a stable DAW this month, I can't wait for another 5 years. I need the DAW for my homestudio now, also to do jobs, there isn't the luxury any more I had the last years to do without my homestudio. I installed the 64 Studio Etch some days ago and didn't changed any dependencies, I only compiled jack_snapshot and today I changed to Rosegarden4 1.7.1, that's all. Is there really someone subscribed to the list having a stable Linux MIDI sequencer, mixer, FX and .sf2, .gig sampleplayers (and not only using Ardour with less use of a complete studio in the box)? A friend has several hardware different to mine and isn't able to get a stable Linux DAW. The desktops are stable, no problems when using Gimp etc. ... :(. I was glad to have the time to make some music today and didn't record a single note, but was the whole day in front of my computer, while the weather outside was fine. It's frustrating, I even can't post some useful messages, excepted from the obligatory warnings like Rosegarden's: "WARNING - track id not found, this is probably a BUG". Cheers, Ralf
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