Today I learned that there's a company called Acoustica that makes a DAW called Mixcraft. There's also a company called Acustica Audio that makes VSTs. There's also a DAW called Acoustica by Acon Audio. None of these things are related.
I feel like this is a trademark lawsuit mess waiting to happen. 😆
That being said: There is so much more information available at a glance. You can just click on things instead of menu-diving. You have a lot more CPU and RAM available. The effects sound 10× better.
Also, while the #SynthstromDeluge gets confused when changing the length of a currently playing clip about half of the time, in #AbletonLive in about 95 % of the cases it just works, flawlessly, even when changing the beginning, or dragging the loop away from the playhead.
I have put together a set of instructions for configuring/tuning Fedora Workstation for low latency audio work. The instructions are not original—everything comes from other sources smarter than me. But to my knowledge, it is the most complete set of instructions for Fedora Workstation users available today. If anyone is interested, the instructions can be found here:
44100 Hz or 48000 Hz for #musicproduction?
Personally I usually go with 48000 Hz because it somehow feels more "natural" to me than 44100 Hz (as half of 96000 Hz or a quarter of 192000 Hz). Made my life easier a few times when I wanted to #compose#music for #movies too. #daw#linuxaudio
@amadeus The difference in resolution comes into play above 22khz. The best human ear can only hear below 20khz. If you are recording for a dog you need more resolution, but not the human ear. (or of course trans coding repeatedly between the two will get you eventually as errors add up)
Does anyone else use the Dual Display (Arranger/Mixer) setting in #bitwig on a single monitor from time to time? I find it nice to have the mixer and device chain always visible (and context sensitive) while working on an arrangement, and to have the latter always visible as well. On a big enough screen at least, this can be a very comfortable approach for me. #mixing#daw#musicmaking#linuxaudio
I finally decided to grow up and learn #Ardour and dump #Reaper as my #DAW. No shade on Reaper, it's a fabulous piece of proprietary software that runs well on #Linux. It's reasonably priced and highly functional. All things being equal, I'd rather use and support free software. So, when I got the point where I made my first export in Ardour, it asked me to become a subscriber, which I did, gladly, as the software works very well (for my purposes).
@amadeus the GUI is not encumbered by DSP constraints. Then again almost all authoring tools do not use the system’s theme. LV2 plugins can use the host‘s colour theme. This looks better compared to than just generic light/dark modes. Sadly not many plugins support this.