A bad experience ...

[Gustin Johnson]

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Det wrote:
| @Larry Lines and @Andrew Hunter
|
| Larry Lines wrote:
|> My first question would be... Why Rosegarden?  I would never think
|> to use Rosegarden for live recording.  I keep seeing people do
|> this, but certainly Ardour would be my first choice.  A lot less
|> overhead. Maybe I am wrong.
|
| 1.) I stumbled over Rosegarden somewhere in the past and it then was
| the pendant to Cubase, which I knew from my vintage Atari. So it was
| a natural first step to start that up.

Rosegarden works for me.  I have a 16 channel rig (RME 9652 + external
interfaces).

| 2.) Why *not* Rosegarden?  It seems meant for that, I immediately
| found good documentation answering my questions ...?!

I prefer Ardour for these tasks.  Having come from the Cubase world a
few years ago, Ardour best suits my work flow.

I do use Rosegarden for midi editing and composition.  But the audio
almost always gets routed to Ardour.

I have both apps open at the same time, doing separate tasks.

There is a learning curve, but once you wrap your head around the
basics, the payoff will be immense.

As an aside, I have been using Ardour for many years, and I still learn
something new on a regular basis.  This is true for Linux Audio in general.

| 3.) As I said, I *did* recording with Rosegarden. And recording some
| synthe waves and doing multitrack voice recording isn't less "live"
| as a electric guitar, from the tool's viewpoint, is it?

I would look at hard drive performance.  The I/O on laptops is usually
significantly slower on laptops.  You may also need to tune your hard
drive with hdparm, google is your friend here.

| Nevertheless, I heard of, but do not know Ardour. Seems this has to
| change pronto. I'll see how the machine reacts to this. (Beside that
| I wonder if Michael would like to say something...)

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| I already saw that argument too. But neither did I claim I'd have a
| valid test scenario for comparision, nor did I imagine my machine as
| "inadequate" (reg. the datasheet), as Jack and Rosegarden wired 2 in
| 2 out should do the job at least as well as Jack, Rosegarden,
| ZynAddthing, QSynth, all wired together midiwise and audiowise (not
| to mention my sons pc being standard, not "dedicated"). That seems to
| have been an illusion.

Linux is not Windows.  It is not a valid comparison.  Your son does not
have a jack equivalent (and yes I have used rewire extensively, it is
still not in the same ball park).  You would likely have had the same
results as your son if you had not used the apps you did.  Audacity
works fine for me on all my Linux boxes.  It is sort of like pulling out
a sword that you don't know how to use, then whining when you cut
yourself.

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