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Ardour vs cakewalk11/30/2023 ![]() Justin and Schwa are top-notch in their coding and presence in the community and it's why I'll happily continue to pay for a license and give back via ReaClassical and the like. I just find Ardour/Mixbus awkward to use at this point including the terrible MIDI editing (they refuse to add a piano roll view). There are good aspects but for me REAPER wins handily. For Mixbus there's the false advertising of the "every resistor" modelled for the channel strip / separate plugins etc. Sometimes this plays out to the point of absurdity. Ardour devs seem to needlessly re-invent the wheel despite certain "industry-standard" workflows being well-liked/used by the audio community. I'd say REAPER is miles better at this stage. Now, as for Ardour & Mixbus, I have quite significant history with both projects having contributed features along the way. At the very least I agree with him about lack of easy configuration for regular users. For most things it is fine but if you rely on JACK-type workflows, maybe stick with the original JACK2 for now? I am personally on pipewire but only use pipewire-alsa at this point. If you say stay away from pipewire with Ardour, I'd say the same goes for REAPER. I feel it makes a lot of files for reasons I don't understand, like lots of small midi files of each copied loop lolīut for someone who can't/won't buy Reaper, I'd say go for it.ĮDIT: With Ardour, I'd stay away from PipeWire for the moment. But I, like you, rely upon some Reaper tools, and I'm not switching.īut I think Ardour is very good indeed, a lot better than in it's early days. I did try using Ardour 7.3 for 8 projects, and it was good. The concept of Mixbus32C also doesn't fit my projects, but it's great that it exists on Linux as well (at least for now, unless SSL changes Harrison's priorities after the acquisition). The use case I can see for Mixbix32C would be different than Ardour though, theoretically for the specific mixing workflow and "sound" that Harrison added to Ardour (with the help of one of the Ardour developers, as I understand it, who I believe works part time for Harrison too). Cheers!Īnd that goes for Mixbus32C too, of course, which has Harrison's mixer/DSP/bus concept sitting on top of the Ardour engine. I'm not intending this post as a "this is better than that" kind of comparison. Nothing against Ardour or Mixbus32C or their users. The concept of Mixbus32C also doesn't fit my projects, but it's great that it exists on Linux as well (at least for now, unless SSL changes Harrison's priorities after the acquisition).Īnyway, interested in your thoughts. The use case I can see for Mixbus32C would be different than Ardour though, theoretically for the specific mixing workflow and "sound" that Harrison added to Ardour (with the help of one of the Ardour developers, as I understand it, who I believe works part time for Harrison too). I'm just interested to know your thoughts in general about Ardour and if you ever use it, and if so, what features do you find particularly important or unique? And do you think there is something in Ardour that would be a great feature to add to Reaper?Īnd that goes for Mixbus32C too, of course, which has Harrison's mixer/DSP/bus concept sitting on top of the Ardour engine. But I'm not trying to make a comparison or "this versus that" post about it. In my case, Reaper provides numerous tools that are unique to my workflow, and some key, essential features that I've come to rely upon, so Ardour is not something I see myself using for any projects. They helped to open the doors to Linux being taken seriously as a pro audio platform, which may have helped other developers decide to develop pro audio on Linux too, so for that alone I'm grateful. I'm happy it exists, and kudos to the developers for their hard work over all these years. But I do respect the Ardour developers and their devotion to open source software. ![]() ![]() As a Reaper user on Linux (and also former user of most DAWs on the market), I personally didn't see a use case for Ardour for the work I do, since I already have other tools I am very happy with. Like most other Linux DAW users, I've obviously tried Ardour, but I don't have a strong opinion about it. Curious about your opinions of Ardour and Mixbus32C from a "Reaper for Linux" user's perspective.
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