I’m a professional instrumentalist and I’ve begun tinkering with digital audio production , hoping to start a side career composing digital music.
I’ve been working with Linux in general for over 15 years, and I’d like to stick with it, but I’m wondering if its actually viable in the professional world. It seems like most professionals are working with Ableton or other commercial software. I’m learning and working with Ardour, which seems great, but I wonder if I shouldn’t be investing my time in software that will be more useful longterm.
Anyone here have thoughts/experience with this?
Seems like it really depends what you mean by joining the professional world. If its just you making music and releasing it, then the world is your oyster. What you use doesn’t matter as long as the result is great. If you need to work with other people’s files and session, you’re going to have a pretty hard time.
I think it is entirely possible with FOSS. this kinda reminds me of the situation 10-15 years ago when people were trying to make their windows laptop look like a mac… because mac was more “respected” in audio circles… FOSS will work for professional audio… how many sneers and eyerolls it solicits from others who paid $$$$, who knows… prob a good bit depending on the circles you roll through.
All the tools are here for professional audio. You often find more than suitable lv2 plugins, hardware compatibly is solid, and some amazing DAW to choose from. I don’t see how you’d have any issue doing audio production with Linux.
I’ve been recording music for year with Linux.
