I used to be a Logic user and I find that Pro-tools produced music is too sterile, formulaic and doesn't excite me sonically. I use Ardour to record several projects for a variety of acoustic control decisions.

All DAWs can be used as a simple tape deck. Just because Pro Tools gives you certain tools and possibilities doesn't mean you have to use them. The notion that music recorded and mixed in Pro Tools has to have a certain "sound" shows that you still have a bit to learn about the"production process from the instrument all the way to the final mastering stage".

I'd rather have a program like Reaper, which gives me options to go as simple or as complex as I want, than a program like Ardour, that gets in my way and makes things more difficult because the designers didn't have a clear vision of workflow in audio.

If I had all the time in the world and was a Linux zealot, I'd happily use Ardour (as long as I'd never seen what a professional DAW can do). As I said, if all I was doing was being a basement hobbyist Jonathan Coulton, then Ardour would be totally fine. As long as you didn't expect to use professional audio interfaces. Try to use Ardour with an Apollo interface

If your goal is to make music using only OSS software (for some reason), then Ardour is what you want. But Reaper works perfectly well in Wine and is a real DAW. If you want to step up to making music more than a hobby, you'll want to find something better.

Seriously, friend, I've been where you are. Keep an open mind about this. However, if you are married to the idea of Ardour, I'd suggest looking at a product called the Harrison Mixbus. It's based on Ardour if I remember correctly and it's far more refined. When I used Ardour, I found it to make life and the sound a lot better.

Look closely at the "terms and conditions". You missed something pretty obvious.

Jefferson was an expert on capitalism?

Not capitalism, corporatism.

In fact here's one of his quotes on the subject:

âoeI hope we shall crush⦠in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

And I'll bet you didn't know that Jefferson and Madison wanted the Bill of Rights to contain an 11th Amendment.

"The amendment would have made it illegal for corporations to own other corporations, or to give money to politicians, or to otherwise try to influence elections. Corporations would be chartered by the states for the primary purpose of âoeserving the public good.â Corporations would possess the legal status not of natural persons but rather of âoeartificial persons.â

It sounds like Jefferson and Madison (the Father of Conservativism) had a pretty damn good idea of what was coming. But even then, there were large and powerful corporations who worked to defeat the vision that Jefferson and Madison had to make government a counterbalance to corporate power.

The fact that this phenomenon has been given the term "poaching" by these corporations shows exactly what they think of you, the tech worker.

I wouldn't cry if the coal companies went out of business, coal is nasty stuff. CO2 is the least of its problems.

Yep, the Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Constitution party were on enough ballots to win. The are about fifty more parties who mathematically have no chance, but those 3 could win if the corporate media let them.

There are all kinds here, cops (any time you see a cop referred as an "LEO" you know it's a cop because that's Low Earth Orbit to us), firefighters, pilots, and it seems that lately there are an awful lot of greengrocers. Hell Will Wheaton has a slashdot account and posts sometimes, he's an actor.

I've been using EAC on the XP box. I want to nuke Windows on that machine and put kubuntu on it.

There's a little lens flare in the CrystaLens, too, but not enough to matter. Oh, and you spelled "lasik" right.

an invasive species native to South America has been threatening biological diversity in the ear which can have lasting consequences on the ecosystem

Threatening biological diversity in the ear? Huh? Plus, when I tried to go to your link it wanted a username and password. Fix the summary, find a better link, and resubmit.

Meanwhile - Chicago has the highest death toll by handguns in the WORLD. Imagine that. You won't address those statistics, will you?

Ah, but They do. They blame the NRA for the violence in Chicago, believe it or not (link is to a political cartoon).

do they ground military aircraft like they do commercial ones?

Yes, when I was in the USAF they often grounded whole fleets. The C5As were out of service for a few months after a piece of equipment used to service the tail fell over and killed a guy. Unlike civilian planes, when military planes get grounded it seldom makes the news.

What that puerile bitch Snookie is up to (and like-minded garbage) is sadly much more important to them.

The minority who try their best to be aware don't deserve to reap what the majority have sown.