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Linux Audio Developers Conference
paulbd writes "This weekend sees the first Linux audio developers
conference at
ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Gathering together many members of the
Linux Audio Developers mailing list and others, the conference will feature 2 days of in-depth technical presentations and demonstrations of many
cutting
edge Linux
audio and
MIDI
applications." Desktoplinux.com has a related story about using Linux in a professional recording studio.
I hope they do something about the audio issues in Linux. When playing an mp3 is a frustrating, skipping nightmare on even high-end systems, something is wrong.
Even a PentiumII 300Mhz running Windows has better audio capabilities than my P4 2.4Ghz running Linux.
Maybe the new patches the kernel developers are comming up with will help?
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
But linux is becoming more popular, and like it or not getting close to taking over apple.
This is not a Linux good Apple Bad argument but software (and hardware drivers) are usually only written for the top two OS's in the market.
If Linux hits the #2 spot then their will be more games, profesional GUI based apps and media/consumer drivers for linux.
Linux on the web has been #1 for quite some time, and already has reasonable support for serious hardware.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
You just said what I said, there is no good software capable of professional grade recording, editing, or sequencing for Linux. I recognize that Pro Tools has deficiencies in MIDI, but please, can you really say that a Linux setup can compete with a Pro Tools HD setup? You're an audio engineer, come on. Pro Tools 6 has far improved MIDI capabilites by the way. Hardware can't do it on it's own! I have been a whole lot of digital recording studios I can't name a single one that use Linux in any way. It's just not an option for a professional recording situation. I wish it was, but it's not.