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I have been playing around with Linux sound applications lately.

Have setup my Radium61 under Slackware 11. There seems to be alot of sound applications but you need a degree in Rocket Science to puzzle every piece of software toghether.

My conclusion today was that Linux has a very long way to go if they want to provide the same level of functionality as MS Windows sound applications.

The software synthesizers also sound very horrible compared to other MS Windows based Free Software Synthesizers.

The recording applications seems to be working better and is more supported than the MIDI apps.

Trackers are also not that up to scratch if you compare it with Software like Renoize or Madtracker.

I noticed that Redfox is using "Ubuntu Studio" which has a wide variety of sound apps already pre configured. Which saves you alot of time searching and installing, compiling software. But I have one major problem with "Ubuntu Studio" It guzzles up resources. I could barely use my installation because everything including the windowmanager was very slow.

I also noticed that almost all the cool software is no longer under active development. So it doesn't take a software package very long to become outdated and useless. And makes choosing software to use very difficult because it is uncertain how long applications will stay in active development. This could cause issues where you will have difficulty working on older tracks because of outdated software.

I will be looking into some more applications and see what Linux has to offer... But I have big doubts wheter I will be producing tracks in Linux anytime soon...