Linux...anybody using it?

[tweetor_eator]

could it be that jeff is the linux music messiah!

[urlwolf]

I'm testing ardour 3. I'm impressed.
They did a very good implementation of the piano roll.
vst plugins work (native, never tried win plugins).

I also tested qtractor, which has an emphasis on midi... I prefer ardour (!)

[jeffh]

could it be that jeff is the linux music messiah!

EZ now... If you inflate my ego any bigger than it already is, it's liable to collapse under the pressure of it's own gravitational pull and form a black hole that consumes the entire earth

[tweetor_eator]

just getting you back for previous ass kissing xoxoxo

[ret]

I'm testing ardour 3. I'm impressed.
They did a very good implementation of the piano roll.
vst plugins work (native, never tried win plugins).

I also tested qtractor, which has an emphasis on midi... I prefer ardour (!)

Audio recording side of Ardour 3 is brilliant for most part but midi is not even halfway there to be comparable with other pro-level hosts. It is a nice addition to Ardour but in it's current state painfully cumbersome.

What amazes me is that now when Ardour 3 is officially out there is hardly any talk about it.

[glokraw]

I'm testing ardour 3. I'm impressed.
They did a very good implementation of the piano roll.
vst plugins work (native, never tried win plugins).

I also tested qtractor, which has an emphasis on midi... I prefer ardour (!)

Audio recording side of Ardour 3 is brilliant for most part but midi is not even halfway there to be comparable with other pro-level hosts. It is a nice addition to Ardour but in it's current state painfully cumbersome.

What amazes me is that now when Ardour 3 is officially out there is hardly any talk about it.

Maybe years of pre-releases and beta testing melted the thrill
of the big announcement? Perhaps most of the users were using
betas right up to the last minute, and others are
still involved in ardour 2.8 era projects? Of course, a Cubase 7 release
generated quite a few threads, people trying to get things working again,
Reaper updates are more sporadic, but still less newsworthy
than a couple years ago. So maybe the old saw,
'no news is good news' applies?
Cheers

[sellyoursoul]

I'm testing ardour 3. I'm impressed.
They did a very good implementation of the piano roll.
vst plugins work (native, never tried win plugins).

I also tested qtractor, which has an emphasis on midi... I prefer ardour (!)

Audio recording side of Ardour 3 is brilliant for most part but midi is not even halfway there to be comparable with other pro-level hosts. It is a nice addition to Ardour but in it's current state painfully cumbersome.

What amazes me is that now when Ardour 3 is officially out there is hardly any talk about it.

What are the issues with MIDI right now? Are there problems with recording, editing, both?

[urlwolf]

Yes, I would like to know which parts of midi editing and recording are inferior in ardour...

[fedexnman]

Cant seem to get Ardour3 to see my usb midi keyboard or usb trigger finger ? kind of a bummer ... all it see is my firewire midi of my interface , kind of still a p.i.t.a. as usual ..

[phoenixofstorm]

fedexnman, I know this question will sound stupid, but I have to ask - did you check your connections in QjackCtl? Be sure to check under the "MIDI" tab - this is your jack midi. Under the "Alsa" tab are the midi connections which use alsa. Ardour doesn't support alsa midi.
My usb cable works fine with both ardour and qtractor, though at some point I had problems with linux recognizing it - it was a jack related problem, but it was long time ago, so I can't remember any details. If jack doesn't see your usb midi cable try reinstalling jack. If it's in your OS repositories use them, don't compile it! Compiling jack can turn ugly...

[fedexnman]

Im slowly figuring this out , the Ardour manual says something about uncheck ALSA in misc in Qjackctrl and run a2jmidid -e in the terminal and it will show up in the midi tab in Qjackctrl and ALSA wont be showing . What a mess still . Once I close the terminal its gone . I dont want to fool around trying to making a script like it says in the manual ,thats not music making . Ardour 2.8 im used of , Ardour 3 Im not quite there yet with it .

[ret]

What are the issues with MIDI right now? Are there problems with recording, editing, both?

Yes, I would like to know which parts of midi editing and recording are inferior in ardour...

For me it really is a matter of workflow and certainly something everyone interested in Ardour 3 should see and test it themselves.

Most of the basic features are there but for the way I usually record and edit midi it is slow and cumbersome.

[StudioDave]

Greetings,

A frothy percussive little something whipped up in Ardour3, using material created with the latest PyDAW and the latest A3. Glokraw, this one's for you.

http://linux-sound.org/audio/trance_loop_138bpm.mp3

http://linux-sound.org/audio/trance_loop_138bpm.ogg

Best,

dp

[jeffh]

Greetings,

A frothy percussive little something whipped up in Ardour3, using material created with the latest PyDAW and the latest A3. Glokraw, this one's for you.

http://linux-sound.org/audio/trance_loop_138bpm.mp3

http://linux-sound.org/audio/trance_loop_138bpm.ogg

Best,

dp

Nice one, it kind of mixes that 90s-experimental-electronica vibe with that newer where-dubstep-meets-trance sound that all of the kids like these days...

...and it's good to hear that PyDAW is finding a place in your workflow, since the aforementioned influences are really what I'm targeting... Hallelujah, somebody understands the point of what I'm doing

[urlwolf]

Just a quick note to say that I've found a great little lv2 synth: triceratops. Sounds better than Noisemaker (to me).