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Until now I used Ardour, I'm very new to digital recording and I started with it. Actually I once tried Cubase on Windows but maybe once or twice, then I had other things to do and quit.
But since I went on Linux I thought about recording so in the past few months I started.
Being new I didnt' know, and still don't know, many things. So I went for Ardour and also supported it until I discovered there's no way to make midi works.
To me it's something I don't understand. The most of my tracks are audio since I mainly use guitars and bas through amplis. But if I have to record a synth, or an orchestra, I have to go for midi. And Ardour doesn't do that.
So I came to Qtractor and I'm still trying it. If everything will work fine, I'll trash Ardour.
For me it's quite silly having being forced to use two different daws because one doesn't allow midi and the other audio or other.
Also, for a newbie like me, I find that the explanations in Ardour are very lacking clarity. Several sections of the manual are yet to be written, other sections tell you what a certain button does but not why, how and when. So I'll never understand anything in this way.
What comforts me is the fact that is not me, or totally me being dumb. Some days ago I met a friend I haven't seen for years, who always did digital recording. He used quite all daw in history and now it's on windows and Protools. We were talking about it and he told me he tried Ardour, even though it was the 3 version, and he was about getting insane with jack, all the connections to do and so on.
He suggested me to get back on windows and protools which "doesn't require any effort: you just plug what you have to do, and protools does everything by itself".
But I want to stay with free stuff, so I'm trying to learn Qtractor.