Ardour is a great app that's pr0gressing fast. That said, it doesn't even come close to the functionality of my-5-year old copy of Cakewalk Pro Audio 9. Professional DAWs have a niche user base and therefore a niche developer base. Unless a company sees some potential in Linux for a selling product, no one is going to take up the huge development task of filling in all of the holes necessary to provide the base for a solid DAW.
$7000 for a base ProTools setup or $600 for Cakewalk or Cubase or whatever is a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things. I'm an avid Linux user and I do film music work - from what I can see, Linux will never, in the foreseeable future, combine video, audio, MIDI, full hardware support and the host of other things necessary for a useable workstation. It sucks, but it's a fact.
Of course, this doesn't keep me from using Ardour whenever I can:O) everyone should just drop what they're doing and help out with that project - it's the only hope.
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Ardour is a great app that's pr0gressing fast. That said, it doesn't even come close to the functionality of my-5-year old copy of Cakewalk Pro Audio 9. Professional DAWs have a niche user base and therefore a niche developer base. Unless a company sees some potential in Linux for a selling product, no one is going to take up the huge development task of filling in all of the holes necessary to provide the base for a solid DAW. $7000 for a base ProTools setup or $600 for Cakewalk or Cubase or whatever is a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things. I'm an avid Linux user and I do film music work - from what I can see, Linux will never, in the foreseeable future, combine video, audio, MIDI, full hardware support and the host of other things necessary for a useable workstation. It sucks, but it's a fact. Of course, this doesn't keep me from using Ardour whenever I can :O) everyone should just drop what they're doing and help out with that project - it's the only hope.