Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix
Anyone who is serious about audio would not seriously consider the *nix environment, except, of course for macOS. I have read many blog posts about people who have successfully gotten Ardour to work on Ubuntu (and variants) but this was after an unreasonable amount of patching and troubleshooting. I’m a busy professional with very little time for my music and audio production hobbies, and I want
to spend zero time on diagnosing issues. Inspiration is a harsh mistress and does not wait around for me to finish installing some obscure library, or worse, compiling it from source.<p>The biggest hurdle is with hardware. If you need low-latency, high-performance interfaces, you absolutely a need tightly integrated hardware&#x2F;software stack - think something like Universal Audio’s Luna system. You simply cannot make that kind of tight integration work outside of macOS.