42low wrote:Philotomy wrote:42low wrote:... ardour ain't that great with midi (? hearsay).
I'm to unexperienced with other daw's (ardour just does it for me) so i can't say more than that i read everywhere that those who do productions mostly with samples and midi don't use ardour.
But instead i love Ardour.
Same here. I used to think that Ardour isn't as good for MIDI as for instance QTractor, Rosegarden or other programs which open up an extra edit window for MIDI events.
But that may well be my inexperience with it; I started Linux Audio in February this year only, and have lots to learn. and like @bmarkham said above, that's a huge task (plus I'm not paying yet for Ardour, but I most probably will).
Now what I absolutely
love about it is its ability to select a normalizing level in LUFS (I use the EBU R128 recommendation for broadcasting, which is -23LUFS, but if I want to export for Youtube for instance, I take the same commitee's recommendation of -16LUFS (tho Youtube themselves normalize even louder to -13LUFS as I've read in
http://productionadvice.co.uk/youtube-loudness/). That's what I call a professional system at least for mastering, and this feature alone is
the deciding factor for me to at least export everything with Ardour.
I also only
thought: "dang, you cannot even export MIDI with it!", only due to my own non-knowledge and misunderstanding of it. In its project folders, everything is contained, and that includes the MIDI information for each track. So I stopped comparing and started learning it more and more. Love it so far.
But like @42low said above, I'm not the type of target user for programs like Ableton or Bitwig - I'm more a musician than a sound loops collector. So yes, the type of music you make, and the type of work you'd like to do also plays a role in deciding which program(s) to use. Speaking about Youtube: yes, you can do videos with Ardour, too - at least you have a video in the timeline, and can record, play, compose, voice-over, or whatever you might want to do with it. Been there done that, successfully (it was a company-internal video, so I cannot show or link to that here).
Hope that helps,
Wolfgang