On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Karl :) > > today I got a RME card, very, very expensive. I'm curious about it. I > wonder if it will sound better than all the other cards I know, or if I > just spend money for nothing. I bought a B-stock (customer return), so > somebody perhaps wasn't satisfied by this card ;). > > ACK, but no full ACK regarding to "Linux audio isn't that good, as > proprietary audio is". MIDI jitter for hw MIDI is an issue on all OS, > AFAIK only Nuendo should be good and still with limitations. There > should be no App for Apple or Microsoft systems, excepted of Nuendo. > Using Jack2 from svn + a2jmidi_bridge on my Maverick install had at > least for one song, completely no limitation. It was hard real-time as > good as C64, Atari ST and 80's stand alone sequencers, there was no > jitter. > Regarding to audio it depends to the needs. If I should get rid of audio > loss, I'm satisfied for home recording. Just for professional work > Ardour2 IMO isn't stable enough. Sometimes it crash and sometimes still > is to often, regarding to contract penalty. > > Best, > > Ralf > for me, ardour is quite a bit more stable than cubase was for me in XP, as well as more capable. i usually find when ardour is crashy, its something im doing which is causing the instability. i was trying the new irlv2 plugin, and that seemed to cause instability. i tried using another packaged version of the irlv2 plug from falktx's KXstudio ppa, and ardour (so far) has been stable again. i personally enjoy the way JACK lets me push my system, and find the limitations of my hardware. i remember doing something similar in cubase where i would push the limits of latency and get a less stable system, making cubase less stable. i have been in studios where most of the big name current popular DAW's have crashed. when you push any system to its limits, you can get instability. i find Paul Davis and the ardour team to be quite responsive to comments and bug reports. if you are experiencing ardour instability not relating to personal configuration errors, i urge you to get involved, and report your findings. personally, i find if i relax my JACK settings a bit, the system becomes stable again. > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- MH http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/ http://wnclug.ourproject.org/
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