Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! Massive improvements have been happening in the Linux department since last year where it seems for most of us it might be more than good enough. It's time ...
Yeah for me it’s some essential plugins I would have to give up. I’m sure I could technically replace them, but it would take an insane amount of time and insight to get a similar result and some specific things won’t be replaceable.
Example: izotope AI mastering is awesome. I cannot imagine you will be able to make that work or replace that in Linux. Then there’s specific things like soothe2 or the sound toys suite. Or phase plant or track spacer.
Idk I just tried it once and I failed at getting the glue to work. And that really discouraged me, because it should be an easier one. And I’m not talking just hooking in the dll, in fact used a combination of different wine tricks additions and wine environments and none of them worked. Besides the fact that I need it to work reliably as well of course.
AH I see, yeah there’s always that, when you’re used to using certain tools and like the result from them I understand the reluctance to make a switch, especially if it’s professional work. I’m mostly MIDI/hardware based so I don’t use quite so many tools ITB, just a handful of plugins for mastering, AirWindows makes a lot of amazing plugins for mixing and mastering, but they are not quite as polished as some of iZotope’s tools for example. https://www.airwindows.com/
Very interesting, though I really am not the target audience for airwindows. His console x video features a very gentle mastering chain and for me it’s all about the mainstream genres with heavier compression, limiting and other effects. izotope costs a lot and iLok is just awful, but their mastering plugins are really good.
Yeah for me it’s some essential plugins I would have to give up. I’m sure I could technically replace them, but it would take an insane amount of time and insight to get a similar result and some specific things won’t be replaceable.
Example: izotope AI mastering is awesome. I cannot imagine you will be able to make that work or replace that in Linux. Then there’s specific things like soothe2 or the sound toys suite. Or phase plant or track spacer.
Idk I just tried it once and I failed at getting the glue to work. And that really discouraged me, because it should be an easier one. And I’m not talking just hooking in the dll, in fact used a combination of different wine tricks additions and wine environments and none of them worked. Besides the fact that I need it to work reliably as well of course.
AH I see, yeah there’s always that, when you’re used to using certain tools and like the result from them I understand the reluctance to make a switch, especially if it’s professional work. I’m mostly MIDI/hardware based so I don’t use quite so many tools ITB, just a handful of plugins for mastering, AirWindows makes a lot of amazing plugins for mixing and mastering, but they are not quite as polished as some of iZotope’s tools for example. https://www.airwindows.com/
Very interesting, though I really am not the target audience for airwindows. His console x video features a very gentle mastering chain and for me it’s all about the mainstream genres with heavier compression, limiting and other effects. izotope costs a lot and iLok is just awful, but their mastering plugins are really good.