Ohmstudio, any other people on it?

[jon the art guy]

There was an earlier thread on Ohmstudio a while ago, but I was curious if anyone else has tried it out? I downloaded it last night in hopes of a usable DAW, as pretty much every free or cheap DAW I've tried thusfar has sucked on my system. After opening it up and sort of...shutting off all the social media business, I opened up a couple tracks and found it to be pretty quick, and it "ships" with ASIO support, which is a commodity among the cheapies.

I had 4 different DAWs lurking on my system for a while, and after getting my Pod HD quickly found that none of them are able to handle running anymore. I'm crossing my fingers on Ohmstudio as I haven't found a solution in Linux I like that's worth wrestling with the software over.

Man....how is it so difficult to make a PC clone of Garageband that doesn't suck?

It's times like this that I start taking a long look at uTorrent.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Ohmstudio, any other people on it?

You get what you pay for, performance costs.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Ohmstudio, any other people on it?

I apologize in advance if this comes across as dickish; it's really not meant to be.

I am confused. Are you sure it's not your PC that cannot run the DAW?

I had 4 different DAWs lurking on my system for a while, and after getting my Pod HD quickly found that none of them are able to handle running anymore. I'm crossing my fingers on Ohmstudio as I haven't found a solution in Linux I like that's worth wrestling with the software over.

Which DAWs?

It's not the DAW's fault if the POD doesn't have PnP ASIO support. The DAW will either see it or it won't. I find it hard to believe that Reaper will not work with the POD HD. And if you feel Reaper is to complex ... you really need to spend more time learning how to use your DAW than posting here.

 

[jon the art guy]

Re: Ohmstudio, any other people on it?

I apologize in advance if this comes across as dickish; it's really not meant to be.

I am confused. Are you sure it's not your PC that cannot run the DAW?


Which DAWs?

It's not the DAW's fault if the POD doesn't have PnP ASIO support. The DAW will either see it or it won't. I find it hard to believe that Reaper will not work with the POD HD. And if you feel Reaper is to complex ... you really need to spend more time learning how to use your DAW than posting here.

I haven't been interested in audio recording until now as I wasn't using DAWs for more than MIDI drum tracks to either run into a VST of Session Drummer, SuperDrumFX, or now my Alesis DM8 and out to monitor. Now that I have a reasonable method to get audio my PC I started seeing what any of the vaporware DAWs I had would do.

The PC I'm running into is riddled with being the test platform for a variety of torrented uhm..demos, as well as having to be the design workhorse for when I was actually doing freelance and not wiping baby butts. It failed at running Reaper, and I have very little hope of it running anything built after 2010.

Keeping one's nose out of pirate waters while trying to do home recording is either an expensive or bad quality.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Ohmstudio, any other people on it?

You should delete all of your other DAWs and start w a fresh Reaper install. It is FREE and is probably the most resource-benign DAW I have encountered yet.

A couple of other helpful hints: (sorry if you already know these)

1. Make a new logon on your PC for music and music ONLY. Only run your DAW on this and perhaps a browser for uploading tracks.

2. Run config sys and turn off everything on start up aside from perhaps your anti virus and Airport software if you have an AirPort Extreme as your router.

3. Get a blank USB key and plug it into your PC and use it for some virtual RAM. This is a very inexpensive way to get a little extra performance out of an older machine.

4. Watch your track count. Multiple audio or VST tracks will slow your PC down something fierce. Another trick you can do is export VST tracks as audio tracks and re import them into your DAW; that will allow you to run many more tracks. You can also make bounces of multiple tracks to keep the track count down.

 

[jon the art guy]

Re: Ohmstudio, any other people on it?

hmm, I've tried two installs of Reaper with similar problems. I was gonna go the linux route as I've heard people laud Rosegarden and Ardour, but my experience with it was less that smooth.

Hmmm, I have another computer with practically nothing on it that I was going to build into a music station, though it's much older and running on XP. I'll have to go check out Reaper's backwards compatibility.