New Slashdot Owner: This service is so super-specialised and expensive, most Slashdotters will have no interest in it. Its unusual that it made the front page.
Actually, I kind of like to read an occasional headline that means absolutely nothing to me. Usually, even in the most jargon-laced headline, I can suss out a few terms that give me a vague impression of what the story's about. This one might as well have been Middle Egyptian, and that's kind of cool.
Larry Fucking Summers is one of the guys very near the top of the list of people responsible for the economic collapse of 2008. He's never been right about anything.
There are two horrible groups here - one of them throws people off of the top of buildings for being homosexual, the other doesn't. Why does your support automatically go to first group?
My support goes to neither group. My condemnation goes to the oppressor.
What you're doing is known as "pinkwashing", by the way. Rationalizing one form of oppression by showing how much progress has been made on another. It's playing a kind of identity politics that you usually claim to hate.
Yeah, I've heard the QSC stuff is good. I suspicious of the touch-screen interface though, especially for something I would use in live performance or recording. But being able to track direct to a USB drive is a nice touch.
Though the QSC isn't cheap (it's like $800 for the 8 channel, right?), you get a lot for that money. Especially if you like an all in one solution between you and the box.
A minute ago it was "you can't use Apogee on Linux, and professional use only use Apogee etc". Now it's "that Apogee gear is crap, now that I know Linux supports it just fine"
No, that's not it. Apogee has terrific high-end interfaces. But on the low-end, their stuff is mainly toys for using with iPads. If you spend $59 for an interface, no matter what is on the nameplate, it's not going to be pro gear. If you spend $3000, and it says "Apogee", then you can produce professional audio. Now you don't need to spend $3000 to make professional audio (but it helps). You can spend $400-700 on something that will do the job. But if it has a dongle that will connect it to your iPad, it's not going to cut it. At least none have yet.
Actually there are top-shelf audio interfaces like RME and Focusrite that work just fine on Linux.
The machine I'm sitting at right now has an RME interface attached to it, and you're right, it will work on Linux. I've never managed to get it to work "just fine" though. The latency is awful and a lot of the nicest features like the fancy in-box routing just never seemed to work for me. However, I admit that it's very possible that I just don't have the time to try to sort it all out. And that's why you use professional tools even in a home studio: because your time is worth something and nothing kills creativity like spending half a day trying to make something work in Linux when it's never going to work as well as one of the other OSs that are used for DAWs.
If you're a hobbyist, I salute you for using Linux as a DAW, because you'll be part of the reason Linux someday becomes viable for professional home audio recording. And I really hope that happens.
OK, sorry. You want advice? If you want to do professional quality work in your home studio, you have to start with a Windows PC or Mac. Run Cockos Reaper. Use your Linux box to offload streaming and processing work via Reapers ReaMote technology, for rendering and for sample streaming. You'll get the best of both worlds.
Then, once a year or so, install a real-time kernel distro and the latest Audacity and see how far it's come. Keep hope alive that there will eventually be an all-OSS solution for DAWs.
This is my first venture into home recording using Linux
You had said you were a 2 1/2 year veteran of the music industry, and I made assumptions from that. In regards to that Lexicon Alpha: invest in a decent mic preamp if you plan to use any live mics and run the output of that into the Alpha. It'll make a world of difference. ART makes some very decent cheap preamps that sound pretty damn good for the price (probably about $30).
Seriously friend, good luck. I shouldn't have assumed anything about your level of experience. I used some really shitty setups when I was first starting out. I learned a ton from trial and error and asking smart-asses like me for help.
Reaper is terrific. It's more robust than any of the other DAWs you mention and it's ability to handle VSTs is bulletproof. I've never had it balk at some odd VST or VSTi, even homebrewed ones.
I'm much faster working in Reaper than I am with ProTools, even though I've got a lot more years' experience using ProTools.
It's getting better, and it will get even better with time and higher adoption rates.
Linux is not yet usable for professional-quality home recording.
The article, written by a guy who claims to have "spent 2 1/2 years in the local recording industry" tells us that he recently bought a "Lexicon Alpha 2-channel" interface. Just so you know, the Lexicon Alpha 2-channel interface is a $49 POS USB interface that you wouldn't use for anything more critical than a low bit-rate podcast. Let me know when I can use an Apogee or Apollo or Avid interface with a Linux box.
Linux is a fine platform for use in a recording studio. I use it all the time, but never as a main production platform. It can be used to stream samples, for storage, and even to off-load audio processing and rendering chores. The implementation of VSTs and VSTi's in Linux is still so wonky as to be unusable. And nobody ever used Audacity in their home recording studio to produce anything professional.
I hope Linux eventually does become a viable platform for music production. I've been waiting a long time for that to happen.
I had a slightly different idea for the self-shooting gun. I figure the best way to minimize gun violence is to design guns so that if you pick one up and point it at someone, the barrel swivels around and shoots you in the face.
So suck it and don't kill and starve people with your stupid attitude. Golden Rule, remember? If you want to live, that is.
Even if it wasn't a moral imperative, it's basic common sense and an inevitability.
With automation and the eternal quest for "productivity" and "efficiency" we just don't have enough work so that everybody can have a job. Nor should we expect everyone to work. Because there just isn't that much work that someone is willing to pay for anymore.
If we're going to embrace this future, and our robotic corporate overlords, we're going to have to accept a much larger welfare state. Either that or find a way to severely reduce the population.
Even if you think you embrace Ayn Rand and neoliberalism, and if you think you're going to be one of the successful ones because you're so clever and so talented and you work so hard, you really don't want to live in a place where you're wealthy and everyone around you is poor. You really don't. It's a shitty way to live.
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If I can't roll it up and use it to snort a line, then it's not money.
I can't argue with success.
Nobody reading this today is going to Mars.
It's time for you all to accept that and just move on.
Actually, I kind of like to read an occasional headline that means absolutely nothing to me. Usually, even in the most jargon-laced headline, I can suss out a few terms that give me a vague impression of what the story's about. This one might as well have been Middle Egyptian, and that's kind of cool.
I insist on gluten-free batteries.
Yeah, about that...
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-s...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
Larry Fucking Summers is one of the guys very near the top of the list of people responsible for the economic collapse of 2008. He's never been right about anything.
http://www.economist.com/blogs...
My support goes to neither group. My condemnation goes to the oppressor.
What you're doing is known as "pinkwashing", by the way. Rationalizing one form of oppression by showing how much progress has been made on another. It's playing a kind of identity politics that you usually claim to hate.
Yeah, I've heard the QSC stuff is good. I suspicious of the touch-screen interface though, especially for something I would use in live performance or recording. But being able to track direct to a USB drive is a nice touch.
Though the QSC isn't cheap (it's like $800 for the 8 channel, right?), you get a lot for that money. Especially if you like an all in one solution between you and the box.
No, that's not it. Apogee has terrific high-end interfaces. But on the low-end, their stuff is mainly toys for using with iPads. If you spend $59 for an interface, no matter what is on the nameplate, it's not going to be pro gear. If you spend $3000, and it says "Apogee", then you can produce professional audio. Now you don't need to spend $3000 to make professional audio (but it helps). You can spend $400-700 on something that will do the job. But if it has a dongle that will connect it to your iPad, it's not going to cut it. At least none have yet.
Reaper has the best VSTi support, but the VSTi has to run on your OS, and that's the problem with Linux.
I keep waiting for the study that says online porn and video poker are good for you.
That's a feature, not a bug.
Now that you mention it...
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix...
The machine I'm sitting at right now has an RME interface attached to it, and you're right, it will work on Linux. I've never managed to get it to work "just fine" though. The latency is awful and a lot of the nicest features like the fancy in-box routing just never seemed to work for me. However, I admit that it's very possible that I just don't have the time to try to sort it all out. And that's why you use professional tools even in a home studio: because your time is worth something and nothing kills creativity like spending half a day trying to make something work in Linux when it's never going to work as well as one of the other OSs that are used for DAWs.
If you're a hobbyist, I salute you for using Linux as a DAW, because you'll be part of the reason Linux someday becomes viable for professional home audio recording. And I really hope that happens.
OK, sorry. You want advice? If you want to do professional quality work in your home studio, you have to start with a Windows PC or Mac. Run Cockos Reaper. Use your Linux box to offload streaming and processing work via Reapers ReaMote technology, for rendering and for sample streaming. You'll get the best of both worlds.
Then, once a year or so, install a real-time kernel distro and the latest Audacity and see how far it's come. Keep hope alive that there will eventually be an all-OSS solution for DAWs.
You had said you were a 2 1/2 year veteran of the music industry, and I made assumptions from that. In regards to that Lexicon Alpha: invest in a decent mic preamp if you plan to use any live mics and run the output of that into the Alpha. It'll make a world of difference. ART makes some very decent cheap preamps that sound pretty damn good for the price (probably about $30).
Seriously friend, good luck. I shouldn't have assumed anything about your level of experience. I used some really shitty setups when I was first starting out. I learned a ton from trial and error and asking smart-asses like me for help.
Only Apogee's lowest end consumer toys will work in Linux. And the Apollo that you linked to is not the same Apollo that makes pro audio interfaces.
Professionals don't use Linux as their main production DAW.
Reaper is terrific. It's more robust than any of the other DAWs you mention and it's ability to handle VSTs is bulletproof. I've never had it balk at some odd VST or VSTi, even homebrewed ones.
I'm much faster working in Reaper than I am with ProTools, even though I've got a lot more years' experience using ProTools.
Linux is not yet usable for professional-quality home recording.
The article, written by a guy who claims to have "spent 2 1/2 years in the local recording industry" tells us that he recently bought a "Lexicon Alpha 2-channel" interface. Just so you know, the Lexicon Alpha 2-channel interface is a $49 POS USB interface that you wouldn't use for anything more critical than a low bit-rate podcast. Let me know when I can use an Apogee or Apollo or Avid interface with a Linux box.
Linux is a fine platform for use in a recording studio. I use it all the time, but never as a main production platform. It can be used to stream samples, for storage, and even to off-load audio processing and rendering chores. The implementation of VSTs and VSTi's in Linux is still so wonky as to be unusable. And nobody ever used Audacity in their home recording studio to produce anything professional.
I hope Linux eventually does become a viable platform for music production. I've been waiting a long time for that to happen.
Dear Mastercard,
Here is my selfie:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix...
I would like to order a case of beer, an Alfa Romeo 4C in black on red, and a bikini wax for the old lady.
Until you've been to the Moon, you should really not weigh in on whether or not it's made of green fucking cheese.
That's a harsh way to talk about the Israelis. I know they're government is made up of racists and war criminals, but they're still human beings.
I had a slightly different idea for the self-shooting gun. I figure the best way to minimize gun violence is to design guns so that if you pick one up and point it at someone, the barrel swivels around and shoots you in the face.
Thus, the "self-shooting gun".
This story demonstrates why we need self-driving cars and self-shooting guns,.
Even if it wasn't a moral imperative, it's basic common sense and an inevitability.
With automation and the eternal quest for "productivity" and "efficiency" we just don't have enough work so that everybody can have a job. Nor should we expect everyone to work. Because there just isn't that much work that someone is willing to pay for anymore.
If we're going to embrace this future, and our robotic corporate overlords, we're going to have to accept a much larger welfare state. Either that or find a way to severely reduce the population.
Even if you think you embrace Ayn Rand and neoliberalism, and if you think you're going to be one of the successful ones because you're so clever and so talented and you work so hard, you really don't want to live in a place where you're wealthy and everyone around you is poor. You really don't. It's a shitty way to live.