Well sorry, truly not trying to sound like a dick. Sometimes it's hard to not see the intent behind the posts. Seriously I was laughing and everything was in good spirits when I posted. I guess when op said he could name more famous people that he knew than I ever could I was like wtf man. I...
#1 you are literally the lone voice in the world about vista being good, so good luck with that.
# 2 sounds like your audio device was set up wrong and honestly if you are trying to do this for real, why not have a real audio interface?
# 3 Been an ardour beta tester for years, and I can...
#1 Vista SUCKS
#2 if you had been getting over 500ms latency with your old rig you where doing something VERY wrong.
#3 the DAW apps on linux SUCK and no producer should use it. Ardour is OK for mixing but that is it.
#4 Jack is NOT the audio system, it is more like rewire, ALSA is the...
oh man, that's tough both are brilliant. But I would give the edge to WW, he would have dexter killed off before dex figured out that WW was the actual enemy. WW is so much better at staying in the shadows.
The MPD18 is just a controller, you don't store samples in it at all. If you already know logic I would just roll with that. You can use the logic sampler to load your samples in to and use the MPD to trigger them.
These days I have a project for each track I make or an artist at least in mind that I email an mp3 of and see if they want. I still have a long ways to go, but at least most things have a home. Seriously it took years of blood sweat and tears to get it to this point. But the thought of just...
yea, workflow in Reason IMHO is the best period. I feel like Reason is kind of like an Apple product, it doesn't do everything in the world (ie FL studio) but what it does, it does better than anyone else. So ya, workflow is amazing!