Bitwig is running mighty fine on Linux so I'm seriously considering using it instead of Ableton to play on stage. I always need to adapt my tracks for live situations anyway, so it's not a lot of additional work. Also:
1) My mac is old and heavy.
2) My everyday laptop is a very decent and light PC.
3) I really tried, but Windows still kinda sucks for audio.
4) Audio on Linux is surprisingly stable, performant and flexible, if you don't mind spending some time getting it to work.
@fabio I had heard win10's new audio stack was ahead of literally everyone else in terms of latency. Certainly they advertised this.
Is it a case of the "good" software for this being too expensive?
@Elucidating In my tests Win10 is under-performing both macOS El Capitan and Linux with the same software (Bitwig).
Bitwig isn't free, and Ableton is considered a good (and yes, expensive) software, so it's definifetly an OS problem.
It might be because of ASIO drivers, since no pro-audio app on Windows uses their native audio driver architecture. This is both for technical and historical reasons.
Sadly, macOS is the only system with good pro-quality audio out of the box.
@fabio Sad to see the performance hasn't migrated into the consumer sphere.
I knew some folks who did a demo for maker faire that actually had to use Win10, but they coded it from scratch.
Fabio Neves / NO STEP
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