Thanks a lot, guys.
That's what I use to make and record music:
- Ardour3 (awsome DAW, audio and midi)
- Harrison Mixbus (DAW build on Ardour2, with a fantastic sound and feeling of an analog mixing console)
- Muse (Midi-Sequencer - the only one that I found, that can handle drag and drop with midi-Files)
- vsthost (a Windows-simulation (together with wine) that can handle a lot of proprietary audio-plugins, such as Addictive Drums, etc.)
- jamin (a mastering Analyzer, EQ and Compressor)
- audacity (the swiss knife for managing different audio types, bitrates, etc)
And all them bound together with the fantastic jack sound-server! I love the audio-workflow on linux!
And they all do not need many hardware ressources. As I have the direct comparison with mac, I would say it's the half of RAM needed.
But the point, why we had to try other systems was - as I mentioned - a horrible sound on quiet parts, something that sounded like a very fast clock and screeched when moving the mouse - perhaps the graphic card. We changed a lot of hardware but could not fix it. Well, I toyed with the idea of installing siduction on this mac-Desktop computer... ;-)