Recording computer

[Si600]

Has anyone had any experience of using a Linux based system for recording the output from their interfaces?

[ambient]

Not personally, I think you just need to check the requirements of whatever software you're planning on using.

[Skol303]

I don't have any experience of Linux myself, but as far as I know you can run various software in Linux using WINE.

For example: here's a link on how to set up Reaper to run on Linux:

http://wiki.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_run_Reaper_in_Wine_on_Linux

Hope that helps!

[EliasMooseblaster]

I'm trying to move over (very gradually) to using Ubuntu Studio - no interfaces, though, just plugging into the PC's soundcard.

As far as I can tell so far, the software's all very good. Getting drivers for specific interfaces could be more of a challenge - I certainly haven't found one for a Line6 UX1! As Skol points out, you can get a lot of Windows software to run under the WINE emulator, though you may find certain bits don't work perfectly.

[51m0n]

Several times I've dabled in this. And every single time I've just had to cave in and go back to Windows/Mac based machines.

Linux is a fantastic OS, but its really not geared up for, or ready to do, pro standard recording IME. Last time I tried was several years ago, I admit, but at that point I gave it up as a lost cause. When there is a DAW that truly rivals Reaper running on Linux with seamless integration of all VSTs and VSTis that are available out there, that hooks up to my RME interface perfectly, and can import Repaer projects perfectly out of the box, then I may just consider it, if I have a month to spare to configure the damn thing.

IME Ubuntu Studio is no exception to this at all. I tried it and 4 or 5 other distros last time. To much faff for me by far.

Good luck in your endeavour, though, and I am very interested to read how you get on with it!

[ambient]

Maybe consider getting an old MacBook ?

My brother just bought my niece an old white plastic bodied one for £100, she kept on coming around and using mine all yet time, usually when I needed it myself .


It's got GarageBand on it, and could easily run an older version of logic.

[6v6]

Linux actually works OK, provided you're either prepared to spend time learning the (sometime more complex than mac/windows) configuration process, or your requirements are simple.

I've had good success recording from Presonus Firepods into a Fedora system, using ffado drivers via Jack, which can also be routed via pulseaudio for using non-jack aware applications.

Overall the stability and latency (with a realtime kernel from Planet CCRMA) is better than running the same interfaces under Windows, but it did take some faffing to get it all working.

See:
[url="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Musicians_Guide/"]http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Musicians_Guide/[/url]

[url="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/linux"]Audacity[/url] is a good starting point for most recording and editing requirements, with [url="http://ardour.org/"]Ardour[/url] providing more full-featured DAW capabilities.

[Greggo]

I've used Reaper using WINE in Ubuntu and it works absolutely fine. Arguably performance was better than when I used windows 8, presumably because the O/S uses less resources.