Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:22:00 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAO on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20220804122200.6a77ba8e@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <CAAdA2WPJeiJTG7_VoEie6zWoGTfCwQ5fT47zzfMaRgeV7KpXYg@mail.gmail.com> References: <0a25da92-9009-402c-88e5-8d8811389cd1@edison> <CAAdA2WPMMrA_bd4SW5FJSb9TQp9bjQYGmc9sDRTomStyVhkphg@mail.gmail.com> <20220804105350.5bc5125d@archlinux> <CAAdA2WPJeiJTG7_VoEie6zWoGTfCwQ5fT47zzfMaRgeV7KpXYg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:03:20 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >What about if one doesn't have the "budget" for those proprietary >solutions? I suppose FLOSS works too. Hi, FLOSS does work, too, but as an example and there are way more examples I could provide, it's quite expensive to rent a recording hall and a brass band and to own a few decent microphones, to get something better than https://audiomodeling.com/media/?mgi_104=21246/birdland-by-cristiano-alberghini-with-swam-brass-and-saxophones all done with instrument modeling. At least you can do this with proprietary software, but you can't do this with sound samplers available for Linux or FreeBSD and such modeling software doesn't exist for Linux or FreeBSD. Even if you won't record, just compose, but hear what you compose, with modeling you can simulate a lot, that is not that easy to achieve with expensive sample libraries. Btw. when using sound samplers instead of modeling you still need to buy those libraries for FLOSS, too. Most, if not all free sample libraries are crap. For my home studio in a rental apartment this instrument modeling software is some of the software I'm using. OTOH for electric guitar recordings I tested a lot amp modeling software (including Linux amp modeling software), but I'm still in favour of recording a guitar amp at household noise level using decent microphones. For my home studio I'm using an iPadPro. The iPad versions of software are less expensive than the desktop versions, but the iPad sequencers and audio recorders are not where the desktop versions are. I don't try to make a living with music anymore, hence I can use an iPad instead of a desktop computer. The iPad is still way, way, way better than a Linux desktop computer. Btw. the professional RME sound card I'm using with my Linux desktop computer (not a pro-sumer, a professional grade sound card) is not well supported by FLOSS operating systems. There's no support for FLOSS by RME at all. Keep in mind, "professional" is always expensive. A home appliance coffee brewer might be able to make a coffee as good as made with a professional coffee brewer. If you use both machines in a professional way, you need to take into account the time it is used each day, how long it takes to clean the machine, the professional machine is less expensive in the end, let alone that professional tools can be a write-off. Regards, Ralf PS: When using FLOSS, than I would avoid FreeBSD and Ubuntu Studio. Another Ubuntu flavour might be ok, at least it was ok before Ubuntu made a step into the snap container approach direction. I can't comment on current Ubuntu releases. I can't comment on http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ either, but I suspect it's worth trying, for somebody who is fine with the RPM package management based distro. I'm in favour of https://archlinux.org/ . I'm very seldom using Linux for music, most of the time I'm using an iPad Pro. Btw. it's also possible to use other iPads, but than it's another step away from "professional".
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