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Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by mwcampbell »

SwellJoe wrote: post #259
Joeboy wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven't tried Reaper, but Ardour is pretty solid for me these days.

I try to use Ardour every couple of years (and I think I still have a monthly donation setup for Ardour). So far, I've always gone back to Reaper. Partly that's because audio on Linux still kinda sucks, and often requires a lot of kernel fiddling and other crap, but partly it's because Ardour is bigger, slower, and generally less capable than REAPER. But, it's been a couple of years, so I'm due for another stab at us…

What OS do you run REAPER on?

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by shermanyo »

For music production, I use Ableton Live. It has a non-linear workflow that increased my creativity by an order of magnitude, and is a joy to work with.

In my experience, its been rock solid reliable (generally give them 6 months before upgrading to most recent versions).

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Post by tedyoung »

aserafini wrote: post #85

Reaper DAW. Tiny executable, rock-solid reliability, low RAM and CPU usage, effortlessly configurable. It's closed source so it's just a gut feel but it gives the impression of being 'well made' under the hood. I call it my 'Vim of audio'. It was written by the creator of Winamp.

OMG, +100 on this. Even on their "pre-releases", I've never had any stability/reliability problems. It's super-efficient and the community that's grown up around it is just awesome.

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Post by guitarbill »

chubot wrote: post #49

Python. To a lesser extent, vim and tmux. ssh/scp. I used to think bash was on that list... it seems relatively responsive and predictable. I use it all the time. But then I realized how often bash has weird issues -- like completion hanging, or inexplicable inability to complete (this could be due to the distro though). Or it just seems easy to get it in a bad state by hitting the wrong keys, or dumping a binary fil…

Agree with the list and bash. I switched to fish because of this and never looked back.

Although tmux isn't perfect when there's a lot of scrolling output on account of it being a terminal multiplexer, the only decent replacement I've found is terminator, which is a terminal emulator. But I hate the terminator key bindings, and it doesn't have a option for screen/tmux style shortcuts.

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Post by themodelplumber »

aerovistae wrote: post #322

VLC. There have been so many times I thought "man it would be great if there were this crazy hypothetical feature in my media player" only to find out it's like a stable long-established feature that's a keypress away from activation after a quick google search or glance at a dropdown menu.

I like having VLC around but as a day-to-day music player I find it uncomfortable. I have been looking for iTunes alternatives for normal mp3 listening and so far I really like the simplicity and purpose-built nature of qmmp and a bunch of playlist files.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by SwellJoe »

mwcampbell wrote: post #431
SwellJoe wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I try to use Ardour every couple of years (and I think I still have a monthly donation setup for Ardour). So far, I've always gone back to Reaper. Partly that's because audio on Linux still kinda sucks, and often requires a lot of kernel fiddling and other crap, but partly it's because Ardour is bigger, slower, and generally less capable than REAPER. But, it's been a couple of years, so I'm due for another stab at us…

What OS do you run REAPER on?

Windows. It is the only thing I reboot for, now that Steam has so many Linux games.
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