Everything from audio quality to the amount of killer software is great, but is primarily aimed at recorded audio, not producing sound from scratch within the DAW. I think with A3 out now I would be rather satisfied, so long as I could get a Battery style sampler to run as a plugin within it. I would say I'm not satisfied, but having to learn HOW things work has made me a more creative engineer, to be sure.
I completely demolished those partitions and have been doing all Linux for a year now, having transitioned over the last 5 years. Overall rating: I come from the world of Windows.
Plugins are now EVERYTHING but the vintage compressor from LinuxDSP, Manifold and Aspect from Loomer, loads of Calf, that newish Mverb (sounds great, btw), Triceratops, DrMrSampler, Autotalent (whaaat? I suck at notes!) Guitarix, Noisifier, Smooth Decimator, Invada pugins and just about whatever sounds good at the time. OS is Dreamstudio 64bit with Kernel Linux 3.5.0-18-lowlatency, DAWs are Ardour3 and 2, Harrison Mixbus, LMMS,Hydrogen, and Audacity (for loudness mastering) My GF would murder me otherwise, haha).Oh, and a Roland Fantom X6, Korg OSW/W, and an Alesis drum module.
TRAVERSO DAW MDA PRO
Shared hardware for both studios is my m-audio Axiom49, keystation49, korg nanopad, Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro headphones, KRK Rokit 8x2 and matching sub (sub is in studio only. Antec Performance One Series P280 case, AMD FX 8350 4GHz AM3+ Black Edition processor with a MASSIVE quiet cooler, m-audio delta44 and m-audio profire 610 (which surprisingly has an amazing mic preamp. Pro Studio desktop is a self built Frankenputer. I also have an external monitor attached (it's where my mixer window lives). This is incredibly important for my live use. I chose this for its abilty to be powered exclusively by the bus. Audio/MIDI interface is a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4. Going to be ordering a Zareason Verix 530 with an i7 once my tax return gets back. (Not impressive.Intel® Pentium(R) CPU B950 2.10GHz × 2, but I put 8gig of RAM in, and a boot SSD, so it FLIES). Soon integrating my studio desktop into a professional recording studio to be the EDM/hip hop beats producer. Congratulations to Paul and his Ardour/JACK development colleagues. Generally I'm looking forward to Ardour 3. So far there have been no problems with it, all my stuff was aired without complaints. As for sound quality, currently I just let an experienced engineer check it out. Overall rating: This equipment works as good as some expensive professional software, automation is sometimes even better. File transfer between Ardour systems on both computers might sometimes be tricky (because of sampling rates I suppose), I guess I have to work a bit more on my personal skills with JACK. Sometimes there are problems with Ardour 3's WAV export (dropouts). Issues with the system: Most of it works pretty well - especially Ardour 3 with Mackie MCU automation is pure fun. Linux Mint 9 with Ardour 2.8.12, Edirol USB interface (on Notebook) used: Ubuntu Studio 12.04 with Ardour 3 beta 5, Mackie MCU Pro, sound card Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96 (on Desktop PC). Monitors: Spendor BC I with BASF D-6275 amplifier, (hopefully) soon Spendor M100 active monitor. Microphone Neumann TLM49, mic amp Siemens V276 (1967) and soon TAB/Telefunken V76 tube amp (1964).
TRAVERSO DAW MDA PC
8 years old no name Pentium 4 Desktop PC for mixing. Hardware used: Fujitsu Siemens Notebook C1320 (for recording). Usage: private recording studio for professional broadcasting (non commercial ARD radio stations in Germany)
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