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Linux and Audio Production: Simplicity Required

Submitted by Uraeus on Fri, 2005-07-22 06:28. Gnome Multimedia

Jono Bacon has an interesting article on O'Reilly talking about the challenges still facing him as a musician when using GNU/Linux based solutions. If you have an interest in helping improve the Multimedia experience under Linux you should take a look at the article to get some ideas for areas to investigate and work on in order to improve the situation. Many people are interested in sorting out the USB soundcard issue for instance, but nobody has had the resources to take on the coding for it yet.

not really a joke but way behind both Windows and MacOS X

Submitted by cg0def on Fri, 2005-07-22 13:40.

Sure there are ways to get almost everything working in linux though just working is not always what you want. If you are talking about a general use computer ( I guess you can call that a desktop ) then just working is perfectly fine. This is particularly true in the case that you are using a cheap or better yet an onboard sound solution. However, pro grade audio cards and computer equipment should never partially work. When you spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars on audio equpment barelly working is not acceptable. As a matter of fact barelly working should never be acceptable on any production machine. So I really don't get the whole thing about trying to argue that linux audio works. My latest battle (one that I lost) with linux audio was trying to get an Echo Indigo sound card to work on an AMD64 notebook. First Echo Indigo is not *officially* supported by Alsa and the support has been added and pulled back several times. Why is really beyond me. Well after some playing arround the driver is pretty usable only when you have an nforce3 chipset with amd64 apparently there is a problem with the kernel that prevents you from using pcmcia cards. Sure there is so other crazy way to get this working as well but the point is that all this is crazy and if I wasn't as subborn as I am I would quit as soon as I found out that the card wasn't officially supported in Alsa.

So the bottom line is that no professional has enough time to fix stupid problems like that even if he/she knows how. All I wanted to do is to use my new notebook for DJing and linux was damn near impossible to deal with. Don't get me wrong, I support OSS in every way I can but in the case of Pro Audio editing Linux is not even an option. Plus there is barelly any software for linux and the solutions out there are really inferior to the ones for Mac OS X and Windows. But all this is just my own experience.

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