[ubuntu-studio-devel] Elementary OS

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 10:58:17 +0200, ttoine wrote:
>>
>> At least what already is provided for smart phone applications
>> that cost less than 10$/10€.
>>
>
> -> you want to create a company to support a basic set of software and
>plugins on Linux, for 10$/year/people ? I think we might actually find
>interested people for that. But, we can't use the Ubuntu Studio name !

No, I don't want to provide anything, I only mention what users are used
to.

They read "the most flexible mixer architecture in the industry,
hundreds of plugins, and external control surfaces" and expect
improvement when they use it, compared of what they use on other
platforms, but what they actually get is an unfinished mixer, they
need to set up the mixer on their own, a DAW that crashes caused by
bad plugins, tracks that disappear during work etc..

However, the point is, that there is the need to provide something,
that doesn't exist at the moment. What's missing for Ubuntu Studio or
any other distro isn't bad PR, it's software and hardware.

For Linux a lot of software is missing. At best you can use Ardour for
hard disk recording, with a usable latency compensation, but you can't
use it as a sequencer. At best you can use Qtractor as a sequencer, but
it doesn't provide usable latency compensation for audio recordings.
Both apps provide mixers with pitfalls, and no mixer is really a mixer,
they are building blocks. At least an EQ should become default for each
track. Btw. I'm not asking audio engineers, I'm one myself: For an
averaged mixing console's channel, belongs the EQ pre or post fader?
What kind of EQ makes sense for a mixer channel? When do you need pre
and when do you need post aux?

I know the answers, I'm an engineer. Does a musician know the answer
too?

There are professional standards, nobody needs the "the most flexible
mixer", users expect a standard mixer.