Re: MAO on FreeBSD

On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:03:20 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>What about if one doesn't have the "budget" for those proprietary
>solutions? I suppose FLOSS works too.

Hi,

FLOSS does work, too, but as an example and there are way more
examples I could provide, it's quite expensive to rent a recording hall
and a brass band and to own a few decent microphones, to get something
better than
https://audiomodeling.com/media/?mgi_104=21246/birdland-by-cristiano-alberghini-with-swam-brass-and-saxophones
all done with instrument modeling. At least you can do this with
proprietary software, but you can't do this with sound samplers
available for Linux or FreeBSD and such modeling software doesn't exist
for Linux or FreeBSD. Even if you won't record, just compose, but hear
what you compose, with modeling you can simulate a lot, that is not
that easy to achieve with expensive sample libraries. Btw. when using
sound samplers instead of modeling you still need to buy those
libraries for FLOSS, too. Most, if not all free sample libraries are
crap.

For my home studio in a rental apartment this instrument modeling
software is some of the software I'm using. OTOH for electric guitar
recordings I tested a lot amp modeling software (including Linux amp
modeling software), but I'm still in favour of recording a guitar amp at
household noise level using decent microphones.

For my home studio I'm using an iPadPro. The iPad versions of software
are less expensive than the desktop versions, but the iPad sequencers
and audio recorders are not where the desktop versions are.

I don't try to make a living with music anymore, hence I can
use an iPad instead of a desktop computer. The iPad is still way, way,
way better than a Linux desktop computer. Btw. the professional
RME sound card I'm using with my Linux desktop computer (not a
pro-sumer, a professional grade sound card) is not well supported by
FLOSS operating systems. There's no support for FLOSS by RME at all.

Keep in mind, "professional" is always expensive. A home appliance
coffee brewer might be able to make a coffee as good as made with a
professional coffee brewer. If you use both machines in a professional
way, you need to take into account the time it is used each day, how
long it takes to clean the machine, the professional machine is less
expensive in the end, let alone that professional tools can be a
write-off.

Regards,
Ralf

PS: When using FLOSS, than I would avoid FreeBSD and Ubuntu Studio.
Another Ubuntu flavour might be ok, at least it was ok before Ubuntu
made a step into the snap container approach direction. I can't comment
on current Ubuntu releases. I can't comment on
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ either, but I suspect
it's worth trying, for somebody who is fine with the RPM package
management based distro. I'm in favour of https://archlinux.org/ .
I'm very seldom using Linux for music, most of the time I'm using an
iPad Pro. Btw. it's also possible to use other iPads, but than it's
another step away from "professional".