(01-25-2016, 11:11 PM)madmaxmiller Wrote: Well, I've read your other thread... I had 20 years IT and 10 with Linux experience when I first started making music with Linux and Ardour. It took me a while to get my head around Alsa, Jack, Ardour, plugins etc
May I suggest you start with a stock distro with defaults and explore things first? Building the killer recording and mixing system will ne mote fun after that. Have a nice day, I will now preparing to fire up the Australia Day BBQ :-)
MMM
*be more fun, stupid phone keyboard...
I've read enough of your posts to have already gotten that impression about you. And if you won't mind, I'm sure that I'll want to pick your brain about things at various points.
Personally, having reached an age where it feels like there's only about half an hour left to go, I have abandoned the M.O. of starting with something and then evolving towards something else. That makes more sense for people who haven't traveled as far down the path as I have, and/or have lots of time ahead of them.
At this point, I am likely to initially bring up some workable Linux distro (probably Ubuntu Studio as Frank suggested) so that I can play with Mixbus sooner rather than later. But in the background, if I can manage to spend the time to do so, I will get up to speed with Gentoo Linux, so as to gain complete control over the OS. I'll work my way through (every page of) Bryan Ward's
How Linux Works with Christopher Negus's
Linux Bible close at hand. Te reason why I want to do that is to decouple myself from the likes of Microsoft and Apple, both of whom are Hell-bent on dumbing down their OSs to make them the same as smartphones (which makes sense for them).
I am already spending about 12-16 hours a day, studying open source programming languages, tools, etc., version control systems, language-aware editors (like Atom and Sublime Text), etc. and have been doing so for months, trying to resurrect/sharpen my programming abilities. I used to do soup-to-nuts system design (both analog & digital electronics as well as the system software and user interfaces to run on it), but have spent the past couple of decades doing media creation, marketing projects, writing and other things. Anyway, it remains to be seen whether or not I can run down the runway fast enough to accomplish lift-off after all this time.
I'd like to supplement my all high-end analog audio recording/mixing gear with Mixbus, to facilitate more automated "sound-for-film" work here. I've tried using other DAW software in the past (including the most expensive stuff out there) but have never gotten anywhere with it. I've had Mixbus since v2 came out, but have never actually used it. What little DAW-oriented work I have done has been in Reaper. But I like the feel and sound character of Mixbus, and am familiar with film scoring and hit record production work done by friends of mine who have been married to large-frame Harrison consoles. So Mixbus appeals to me on multiple levels.
