Microsoft Calls AMD X86-64 Operating System ‘Anvil’

Well, I’m a Linux user (wouldn’t call myself a zealot, would I?) and I have fun with Gimp. In fact, it stands up to what I used previously, Corel PhotoPaint.

The Gimp is not suitable for professional (i.e. preprint) use because it is incapable of manipulating images that use a subtractive colorspace (i.e. CMYK), nor does it contain support for Pantone colors or ICC support.

I’d just like to add Ardour to your list of Linux apps, as serious competition to ProTools.

Ardour cannot compete with ProTools until Linux supports multichannel AES/EBU sound cards (i.e. 4 * AES/EUB channels == 16 audio channels total) or failing that 4-channel S/PDIF or Toslink cards to interface with external ADCs/DACs, or until Linux begins supporting low-end ADCs/DACs like the Digidesign MBox.

Ardour uses ALSA , which seems to support a whopping… one multitrack ADC/DAC, the RME Hammerfall.

Furthermore, Ardour only contains a subset of ProTools’ features, namely the multitrack editor. Many of the features which make ProTools so attractive (i.e. bus control, input/output mixing configurations) are completely missing.

I don’t know what this Reason app is all about, so I can’t comment on a Linux replacement for it.

See http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/main.html

Reason is a software synthesizer capable of emulating an entire rack of studio equipment, much in the way that ProTools can emulate multichannel audio recording/mixing equipment.

I think some people here are unaware of what 64-bit computing is for (for the time being). 64-bit is for the workstation, not the home or SOHO desktop. Sure, it certainly wouldn’t hurt to have 64-bit on my SOHO desktop (which I use mainly for writing), but it isn’t needed. Therefore, someone who needs 64-bit absolutely needs pro-level apps; GIMP and many others mentioned above, while fine for many of us in the 32-bit world who just use them to tool around (no pun intended) or for low-level desktop publishing, just won’t cut it for many pros. They need things like Photoshop. However, I’m sure that, by the time the majority of apps out there are optimized for 64-bit (3-5 years?), GIMP etc will be up to snuff–at least, I hope so.

Emagic’s Logic audio is a FAR better audio solution that cubase.

I hear Logic Platinum 6 is the bomb, and surpasses every other audio editing package on the market.

yep, apple bought it a while ago. surprised you didn’t know.

anyway, to me making music in windows is a painful experience, much due to the fact that MS didn’t provide a low latency interface until recently. It must be hell for driver devs having to support three or more interfaces in each driver.

Also, the only multitrack harddiskrecorder I’ve found in windows that has an interface that I can stand is Samplitude Studio/Sequia. What’s the deal with all those GUIs that tries to look like hardware racks(hello Reason!)? Sure, and old producer might find his way around quickly at first, but after a while the GUI just gets in your way. Why try to copy hardware racks when you can make something better more functional and efficient?

I’m moving away from the windows world as quickly as I can make my own app for BeOS. Sadly, not quickly enough :/ but I’m getting there

I said that microsoft didn’t provide such an interface until recently, which led to several third party interfaces being created, in other words creating a mess.