LinuxMusicians

Essentially, the hardware I am imagining is just an entry level PC with a decent soundcard. A decent soundcard needn't be super expensive - if I remember rightly, I paid about £100 for my M Audio Delta 1010LT. Computer and their parts are commodities, with tight sales margins, and little profit. Th...

Cubase currently costs £488. Then you say to people that for that price they can not only get an excellent DAW but also the hardware to run it on, designed and preconfigured to just work straightaway out of the box with that DAW and - unlike Cubase - all upgrades would be free of charge, so it woul...

Linux Audio focused commercial distro - before we discuss making another, perhaps a long hard look at reasons for those failures is necessary. A persistant and positive presence, in the necessary locations, is key to any venture. You must make yourself, and the products/services you provide, known,...

Peavey Musebox is another linux-under-the-hood creature

guitars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCzrDsx86P8

keys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xj_CSiWtLY

overview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnKK4QHP5Xo

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MuseBox

I get 8 great months of stability then maybe 4 that aern't so great with linux. It just can't be that way. If someone updates their linux studio in month nine, when it was stable and working in month 8, they alone are to blame if it fails. Especially since it is trivial in linux, to have multiple t...

Let's light the pipe, and say kx, avlinux, and tango, formed a corporation, sorted out the licensing, and began selling a new release, with some value-added content, not available elsewhere, perhaps some samples, utilities, and a few a nifty features, $60 on usbstick, $50 on dvd, and $40 for downlo...

Talent is abundant on both sides of open-source divide. Economies of scale mean that extravagant commercial products from multiple vendors can compete, if not flood the market. NI and IK have frequent mega-sales, or group-buys, such that after purchase, the user has little need to look for more, whi...

that, or make carla-rack work as a vst. considering energyXT and bitwig only load vsts, the carla-rack vst plugin sound better to me (so you can load ladspa, dssi and lv2 in there). hm.... hm....would this not be a great commercial product? It maximises a lot of your work, and could greatly enhance...

There is an issue with having a successful commercial linux audio/video/arts business. There are 12 solid distributions already, and probably more I don't know of. Unless you get 11 creator/leaders from around the world, to cease and desist, and convince their followers/customers to use only the 'un...

"oh, but do those open source apps have this feature X which I have in ProTools/Logic/Reason/Reaper/Garageband/Cubase/etc/etc" and if they don't, "well why should I use them then, I just want the best tool for the job, I need this feature for my work, I'm a pro musician etc". I ...

If I was in charge of Red Hat, I would headhunt the likes of Paul Davis, R Nuno Capela, R Gareus, falkTX, linuxDSP and the pianoteq devs. I have no doubt that a 'dream team' could be formed. In a sense, that is what bitwig did, a small group, with sundry abilities, pooled their resources to create ...

So does Linux have a serious roll in pro audio's future or is it just for the home based, having fun musician? There are a couple dozen great softwares in debian sid, and similar competing collections, that cover most sonic territory. Maybe the round-robin/articulations of multi-sampled sounds, as ...

The drow plugins worked fine in latest bitwig, reverb, tremolo, flanger,
I liked the sound, could adjust and drag the nice gui's about freely.
They were in the 'new in repository' section last night.
Cheers

There are several civil linux related threads in the kvr bitwig forum, with some great discoveries and contributions, that have helped me greatly in testing it with the normal collection of native linux apps. It's still early, but getting better with each release, whether it comes from the userbase,...