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I have been using Cakewalk for many years. I originally purchased it because it ran on Windows. At the time most studio software ran on Apple products and were ridiculously expensive. Now Microsoft is moving away from operating system ownership and will even eventually extort yearly usage fees for the privilege of using their software. They have also built in spy ware and taken away the control of upgrades from the hardware owners. Privacy issues aside these practices consume system resources and can introduce unwanted behaviors. Have you considered writing a version that runs on Linux?
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Re: Linux 2016/03/17 13:34:13 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby tlw 2016/03/17 15:12:46
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Oh not this AGAIN!!!!
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Re: Linux 2016/03/17 14:05:18 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby bapu 2016/03/17 15:31:15
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Oh not this AGAIN!!!!




You would prefer a Mac thread, sí?
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PS... SONAR on Linux?  Less likely than SONAR on Mac IMHO. 

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Re: Linux 2016/03/17 14:18:58 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby bapu 2016/03/17 15:31:18
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StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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Re: Linux 2016/03/17 16:32:42 (permalink)
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I reckon it's very unlikely that MS will start charging a yearly fee for Windows. That would leave them in the fairly impossible position of having the only mass market operating system that wasn't free.

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 05:53:06 (permalink)
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I reckon it's very unlikely that MS will start charging a yearly fee for Windows. That would leave them in the fairly impossible position of having the only mass market operating system that wasn't free.

They have announced that some time ago, so that probably will come.
 
As OP has correctly mentioned, they are already bound Windows to the hardware. So as a normal user you can not upgrade your PC without sending (ridiculous!) money to MS. I think "subscription" model will be accepted by most users, you can upgrade PC again, probably "home" package (several home computers) will have special price. They have big experience with Office 365, they know what they are doing.
 
Note that is not going to affect corporate market, they have (and will have) site wide licenses. Small PC building companies are happy now and will be happy with subscription. End users are forced to buy complete PCs instead of upgrades. With subscription, I guess the price of Windows 365 is going to be rather small for them, so "initial price" will be more attractive.
 
One example:
* you can buy Intel TV stick with Window 10 for 120 €
* official Windows 10 (not OEM) for upgraded/self build PC is 135,00 €
Does it make sense? But they are doing that, already now.
 
With "Spy" function I disagree. They have no reason to spy, they want to collect some info but you can switch that off. All "passwords & co" information is for sharing between YOUR devices, Google/Apple are doing that. And many people are happy (system restore without explicit backup, etc.). But again, you can switch that off.
 
With all respect to Linux (I am working with it full time), the experience for end users can not be compared with Windows 10... Linux can become "dangerous" for OS X, but MS is going its own route and till now they was always successful.
 

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 12:53:09 (permalink)
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John T
I reckon it's very unlikely that MS will start charging a yearly fee for Windows. That would leave them in the fairly impossible position of having the only mass market operating system that wasn't free.

They have announced that some time ago, so that probably will come.
 

I've never seen MS announce a yearly fee, and I do watch these things fairly closely.

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 13:21:34 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Zargg71 2016/04/09 10:50:56

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 13:49:58 (permalink)
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John T
I reckon it's very unlikely that MS will start charging a yearly fee for Windows. That would leave them in the fairly impossible position of having the only mass market operating system that wasn't free.

They have announced that some time ago, so that probably will come.

I've never seen MS announce a yearly fee, and I do watch these things fairly closely.

Well, they are extremely careful with that staff... First (before 10 came) they had general indirect statements with "dual" interpretation. The key word was a "service". Like Cakewalk's "membership" that can be interpreted different ways, till that is clarified. I think observing the reaction, they have started to clarify the word is for development model and not for selling model. That was not sufficient to stop rumor, so they had to explicitly say that Window 10 will not require subscription... Instead it is bound to the hardware and the license breaks with it. That violates some laws in some countries, so they had to introduce exceptions like a possibility to get new license for (proved) broken hardware under guarantee. But with "free" (one way only)  upgrade to Windows 10 (also from versions with explicitly transferable license) they have armed a "time bomb". People periodically want better computers, old computers a tend to break and so most Windows licenses currently existing in the world will be obsolete within 5, at most 10 years. Which Windows will be available that time? That is up to MS. And no one will be able to say "Windows 10 is still working fine for me, and cost nothing". So they can deploy what the want (unlike now).
 
One of (rumor?) examples: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-reveals-successor-windows-10-os-will-be-offered-paid-subscription-service-1501023
 

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 14:03:22 (permalink)
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I'm not interested in rumours, myself. It's rumoured that there's a dinosaur at the bottom of Loch Ness. That link is a really old story, and MS refuted it ages ago.

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 14:46:21 (permalink)
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I'm not interested in rumours, myself. It's rumoured that there's a dinosaur at the bottom of Loch Ness.




That's just Barney, snorkeling, taking a break from his TV show.   You heard it here first!
 

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 15:02:42 (permalink)
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I'm not interested in rumours, myself. It's rumoured that there's a dinosaur at the bottom of Loch Ness.

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Blimey. Excellent work.

You write that about something you have not tried
 
Seriously. It is hard to find modern software which does not require online registration and subscription. For the first the explanation is "piracy" (while I can not remember a protection which was not hacked within days, in case the program is really good...), for the second it is a "quality of service, always up to date, etc.". The reality is simple: keep (legal) users under control, use as much information as possible to sell them something and have a possibility to tune the price when needed. MS could not do this now (with Windows). But they have prepared everything to make it possible in the (not so far) future. The Internet is filled with "Windows spy me" (which is not exactly true and MS is well prepared to defend) while relatively quite about the fact that users LOOSE there ENDLESS licenses when upgrading. Even CW is on board, for example with free "improvements" patch for Z3TA2 after which you need internet to register. And you compare that with dinosaur...
 
Back to Linux. That is what keep them all from pushing users too hard. Fortunately for them, Linux is just a kernel. "Big players" have not found one point of interest in the supplementary packages. In fact they are "fighting" even inside the kernel (like Google vs the reset, as I understand mostly coming from ARM haters inside radical part of free software community...)

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 15:36:57 (permalink)
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John T
I'm not interested in rumours, myself. It's rumoured that there's a dinosaur at the bottom of Loch Ness.

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John T
Blimey. Excellent work.

You write that about something you have not tried
 


Ok, you're just being weird now.
 
Microsoft have not said they intend to charge for subscription. That's a fact. You want to waffle on about counterfactuals, knock yourself out.

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 20:32:59 (permalink)
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Call me crazy... but I don't get the big deal if Microsoft moves to monthly/yearly fee (assuming it's reasonable).
  • You don't own your copy of Windows (rather a license to use it)
  • If you keep your OS current, you're paying each time
As long as the monthly/yearly cost isn't a significant change from what we've had... I see no practical difference.
 
There's no debating that the beauty of Linux is the ability to customize and keep things super lean.
However, that's a double-edge sword.
Windows is *super* easy to install on just about any hardware.
This broad base compatibility is what makes Windows "bloated".
If you add that same broad case compatibility to Linux, then you lose the "super lean" aspect.
Installing/configuring/maintaining a lean install of Linux is beyond most novice users.
Ever tried to configure a Hackintosh with OSX?  It can certainly be done... but it's a PITA compared to installing Win10.  

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Re: Linux 2016/03/18 20:48:55 (permalink)

StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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Re: Linux 2016/03/19 04:40:42 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby BobF 2016/04/19 08:45:44
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Ok, you're just being weird now.

Let say someone write "you have beautiful music on your side". Next day you go on your side (to put even more music) and you see that no one ever listened it. The same person writes "rumors are not interesting"
 

Microsoft have not said they intend to charge for subscription. That's a fact. You want to waffle on about counterfactuals, knock yourself out.

I have not claimed MS has Windows subscription for end users now. But they have Windows subscription for organizations. That is also a fact (I use such license myself). They have subscriptions for VS and Office, for all kind of users. And they speak about "service" in respect to future Windows versions.
 
When CW has asked "do you use Netflix?" many forum mates started to speculate about Sonar subscription. We have a "membership" now.
 
X2 is working under Linux(Wine). Someone (may be me) will probably find what prevents Platinum to run there.
 
That is all I wanted to write about the topic, so I can "knock out" now

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Re: Linux 2016/03/19 18:09:07 (permalink)
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Azslow3, you rock.

Thanks!

StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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Re: Linux 2016/03/21 09:04:40 (permalink)
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When CW has asked "do you use Netflix?" many forum mates started to speculate about Sonar subscription. We have a "membership" now.

since being available via steam, sonar (ccc, non-steam) will now have an "early access" branch; interestingly, steam deploys/updates are always later than via ccc, and it has even been noted in that forum that this is to "iron out" any issues that became apparent during the "direct delivery" (ccc)
/fwiw
 

just a sec

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Re: Linux 2016/03/21 14:18:42 (permalink)
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Who knows what Microsoft will actually end up doing with Win10...   But chances are that A) SONAR still won't be coded to run natively on Linux, and B) I'll still like the SONAR membership program for everything it offers.
 

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Re: Linux 2016/03/21 15:00:38 (permalink)
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A)
 

just a sec

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Re: Linux 2016/03/26 11:18:07 (permalink)
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Call me crazy... but I don't get the big deal if Microsoft moves to monthly/yearly fee (assuming it's reasonable).
  • You don't own your copy of Windows (rather a license to use it)
  • If you keep your OS current, you're paying each time
As long as the monthly/yearly cost isn't a significant change from what we've had... I see no practical difference.
 
There's no debating that the beauty of Linux is the ability to customize and keep things super lean.
However, that's a double-edge sword.
Windows is *super* easy to install on just about any hardware.
This broad base compatibility is what makes Windows "bloated".
If you add that same broad case compatibility to Linux, then you lose the "super lean" aspect.
Installing/configuring/maintaining a lean install of Linux is beyond most novice users.
Ever tried to configure a Hackintosh with OSX?  It can certainly be done... but it's a PITA compared to installing Win10.  




 The Linux user base is often delusional.  Any self help support is beyond most novice users. I've tried Linux maybe  8 or 10 times. Accidentally erased a Windows OS trying to install Linux as dual boot.  Two things delusional Linux users can only point out it 1) Using Linux is giving the middle finger to Microsoft. 2) Unix is used in a lot of hardware.  What they don't realize is it's been an epic fail on the pen market for the people out in the street. Wal-Mart tried to sell affordable desktops with Linux. Even Dell tried this, Best Buy found it as a waste of shelf space.  It will never make it to prime time. Apple use to market that Windows was difficult.  Linux is beyond most people and always will be,  
 

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Re: Linux 2016/03/26 19:12:51 (permalink)
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Windows was beyond most people at one time, and DOS before that.

The difference is in the delivery... Apple and Microsoft recognize this, and maybe even some Linux folks do, but without the  central 'authority' to manage that delivery it all goes "wonky" - that's a tech term<G>!

I started the software engineer portion of my career on Sun workstations using their version of Unix. I later became a consultant and had to learn the HP and IBM varients. And then along came Linux and I figured in for a penny...

Early attempts at Linux system management could be confusing to downright painful, even for a dinosaur like me. Recent adventures suggest that they are really close to having it all together, if only they knew how to tell everyone about it.

Thing is, as Jim points out, the more user friendly it becomes, and the more hardware it supports, the more it loses some of the implied advantages.

I really like pretty much all the package managers, for example, but I don't want to have to be fluent in all of them. And there is hardware, and software that I do not wish to abandon, heck, there are a couple of Mac only tools I'm still considering...

Choosing a computer based on the OS makes sense for a handful of folks, choosing a computer for the hardware makes less, choosing a computer for the company (and yes, that's Apple bashing, but hey, they are really good at it) makes good sense for some.

Most of us pick the applications we want to use, and the peripherals we want to use, and then we hope that they all work with one platform!

I'd love to see all my favorite tools support Linux - not just for the  "free" OS (although that is attractive) but more for some of the research related tools that are only available on Unix. And for the ability to build a system just for music production. If you want to get an idea of what's involved in customizing a Linux distro for music production check out Planet CCRMA!
 
Yup, I'd love to see it, but I'm way too old to think there is a good business case for that... pity!

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Re: Linux 2016/03/26 19:47:23 (permalink)
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In America ABC, NBC and CBS was the last time there was room for 3 major players battling it out.
 
Microsoft and Apple simply will not allow a 3rd major (consumer) OS to emerge.
 
JMO.
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Re: Linux 2016/03/26 20:13:02 (permalink)
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bapuIn America ABC, NBC and CBS was the last time there was room for 3 major players battling it out.
 
Microsoft and Apple simply will not allow a 3rd major (consumer) OS to emerge.



I would agree, right up to the part where it is 2016, and a lot of the rules have changed... so while neither MS nor Apple will allow a third competitor, I'm not sure they could prevent it from happening. The internet giveth, and the internet taketh away. However, the entire *nix community has been disorganized since Berkeley requested the tapes from AT&T way back in 1974. And I don't imagine that will change...

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Re: Linux 2016/03/26 21:25:16 (permalink)
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Planet CCRMA is new to me. Have you used it?

I've been using Ubuntu studio for a while and really like it. I don't want to have to work at the build though. I like the single install of everything.

wst3 thanks for your post.I found it informative.

StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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Re: Linux 2016/03/27 12:06:32 (permalink)
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gswitzPlanet CCRMA is new to me. Have you used it?

I used it for quite a while, and once you get past that initial build it is quite easy to maintain. But then curiosity got the better of me (you'd think I'd learn?) and started auditioning some of the other solutions. Somewhere along the way I wasn't paying attention and I ended up losing my Planet CCRMA installation, or hosing it up beyond what I felt like repairing.

gswitzI've been using Ubuntu studio for a while and really like it. I don't want to have to work at the build though. I like the single install of everything.

Funny, that's what I'm using right now, but just till I get off my lazy duff and re-install Planet CCRMA. Although I must admit there aren't as many differences as once existed.

Too many good audio/music production distros is not the worst problem one can have!

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No doubt! Happy recording! I must say, I love booting other laptops to Linux USB to make recordings and having it go flawlessly!

StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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Re: Linux 2016/03/27 20:00:56 (permalink)
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My general feeling about running a Linux DAW is, basically, Ain't Nobody Got Time For That.
 
I'm something of a Linux admirer myself, and am, in fact, in the midst of planning a central controller widget for my mobile recording rig that's based on a Raspberry PI running Linux, and it's going to be great. It'll control a Behringer X32 core mixer, and also, via the GPIO, control the transport on a Fostex hard disk recorder. It's going to get set up one time, to do one thing, and it's going to do that one thing until it keels over.
 
Linux is great for making single purpose boxes like that. It's why it owns so much of the server market. Machines that fire up and run, and just do their one job.
 
But I can't help myself laughing when someone goes, "yeah, it's really easy to run a linux DAW, you just read this colossal white paper from a bunch of academics and then this package and that package, and elevated user privilege this, and jack configuration that, and so on and so forth".
 
I've got nothing against that stuff, but I really don't want to be doing that amount of tinkering. I've got stuff to do, and that stuff relates to recording and mixing, not to messing about with computer config. I run Windows with exactly zero customisations, and I run Sonar with exactly one: the playback buffer setting. And you know, when I installed Windows 10, it took under an hour, and when the computer re-started, things like active logins to forums were still working. And I didn't have to fire up a command line at any point. Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for how well they do this.
 
Linux is very clever, and Ardour is a fine program, but the overall ecosystem and overall friction of just getting the things to work make little sense for serious audio production. Too limited hardware support, too limited on plug in options, too much work to do whenever there's an update to either OS or apps.
 

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Re: Linux 2016/03/27 20:23:39 (permalink)
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Linux works all the time in the field for me and Windows doesn't.

I find using it simple.

I don't mix with it yet, but I do capture.

Using a class compliant interface helps.

I don't have to touch Jack.

I install Ubuntu studio on a USB ssd, plugin in my interface and record at extremely low latency with my work laptop.

The number of times Windows has failed me I cannot count. And I have lots of practice with a ton of money in gear. You should know that I try very hard with Windows because it has RME TotalMix and DigiCheck which Linux doesn't.

Linux works though. It just works.
post edited by gswitz - 2016/03/27 20:58:02

StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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Re: Linux 2016/03/27 20:23:40 (permalink)
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This doesn't mean I don't use Sonar. I do. And I'm current. But if I'm leaving home, I'm probably going to use Linux not Windows.
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StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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