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Urban Koala « A great alternative to Cubase »
Published on 03/26/12 at 09:25Installation without any issues, as long as you're running the normal version of Ubuntu (the studio version is a pain to install).
As the documentation states, besides Ubuntu, you need to install the corresponding audio packages and plug-ins and it works right away! It's automatically configured and everything!
I have never used the user's manual, I discover things on the way and take notice (I have some experience with Cubase).
Anyway, the Ardour forum is very useful, jut like the Linux community in general and the Ubuntu one in particular.
PERFORMANCE
I currently use a 2GHz laptop with 2 Gb RAM.
It works great.
Several years ago I worked with it on a netbook!
Linux's advantage is that it uses much less resources than Windows, which is great for this type of software tools. I get latency times of less than 5 ms!!
I used to connect my instruments directly into the soundcard (it's risky, so be careful!).
EDIT: Ever since I use a Digitech RP355 pedalboard as soundcard. The pedalboard is perfectly recognized by qjackctl and you can check my info if you want to develop ideas together (collective songwriting).
OVERALL OPINION
I've been using it for 3-4 years and it's great for me. It's stable, reliable, light... And free (but do consider contributing to support such an impressively serious project!!)
It's clearly better than Audacity, which is pretty good all the same, just like Cubase I'd say.
Afterwards, if you fiddle with it, it can get really complicated. It's a really pro software, so you can configure the plug-ins, map the hardware by hand or use the hammer/chisel tools if you want to develop your skills further, which isn't my case.
I'm all for simple/effective/efficient computer tools and Ardour fits that description perfectly!
As the documentation states, besides Ubuntu, you need to install the corresponding audio packages and plug-ins and it works right away! It's automatically configured and everything!
I have never used the user's manual, I discover things on the way and take notice (I have some experience with Cubase).
Anyway, the Ardour forum is very useful, jut like the Linux community in general and the Ubuntu one in particular.
PERFORMANCE
I currently use a 2GHz laptop with 2 Gb RAM.
It works great.
Several years ago I worked with it on a netbook!
Linux's advantage is that it uses much less resources than Windows, which is great for this type of software tools. I get latency times of less than 5 ms!!
I used to connect my instruments directly into the soundcard (it's risky, so be careful!).
EDIT: Ever since I use a Digitech RP355 pedalboard as soundcard. The pedalboard is perfectly recognized by qjackctl and you can check my info if you want to develop ideas together (collective songwriting).
OVERALL OPINION
I've been using it for 3-4 years and it's great for me. It's stable, reliable, light... And free (but do consider contributing to support such an impressively serious project!!)
It's clearly better than Audacity, which is pretty good all the same, just like Cubase I'd say.
Afterwards, if you fiddle with it, it can get really complicated. It's a really pro software, so you can configure the plug-ins, map the hardware by hand or use the hammer/chisel tools if you want to develop your skills further, which isn't my case.
I'm all for simple/effective/efficient computer tools and Ardour fits that description perfectly!