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gutturalpiss, so it appears that both Ardour and Hydrogen still has VST issues. Well, I'm glad to hear that the Linux community is going strong and I certainly hope they will eventually sort out the DAW issues. With 2/5 and 3/10 success with VST is less than even the bare minimal unacceptable level. But I'll keep a watch on it's development. It appears at this stage, it is not near where it should be in terms of DAW apps. Since you already have Linux running, do you mind trying out Linuxsampler and tell me how that runs on your system? There are free gig files you can download to try out the sampler.
Actually, I seem to recall sometime in the past (during their development phase), Opensynth (Open labs) considered using Linux as it's OS. Then they have decided to drop it and do Windows instead.
I would really like to try out Linux. But problems: 1. No time, 2. Require another boot partition to my already dual booted system - and that will require Partition Magic which will unfortunately takes up background resources. In my current setup, because I'm using XP and Pro in 2 partitions, I don't need third-party partition software. My DAW partition is stripped to the bare minimal with XPLite Pro (no IE, any hint of explorer shell within Windows had been totally removed - extremely fast and stable as a result; it's like XP engine on a 98 shell).
Actually, I seem to recall sometime in the past (during their development phase), Opensynth (Open labs) considered using Linux as it's OS. Then they have decided to drop it and do Windows instead.
I would really like to try out Linux. But problems: 1. No time, 2. Require another boot partition to my already dual booted system - and that will require Partition Magic which will unfortunately takes up background resources. In my current setup, because I'm using XP and Pro in 2 partitions, I don't need third-party partition software. My DAW partition is stripped to the bare minimal with XPLite Pro (no IE, any hint of explorer shell within Windows had been totally removed - extremely fast and stable as a result; it's like XP engine on a 98 shell).