Qtractor

For me, Qtractor is the best DAW. No other DAW offers more or better results. However, I'm also aware that Qtractor isn't a DAW for everyone. How do you know if Qtractor is the best DAW for you? Step 1: Try it. Step 2: If you don't understand something, check the wiki. Step 3: If you're still not sure, ask on the official forum rncbc.org. If everything flows smoothly after these 3 steps, you'll know for sure that Qtractor is the right DAW. If not, you'll have to keep looking for the best DAW for you. I think Qtractor is a DAW focused on authors. Those who enjoy the creative process, without rushing. Those who build, taking care of the details until they achieve a work with its own purpose. Other DAWs, on the other hand, focus on the industry and its standards. They don't focus on the author's freedom, on allowing them to develop their creative identity, or on the care of the work. The priority in these DAWs is to mass-produce as many tracks as possible in the shortest time and cost. This priority sacrifices the music's creative identity. It reduces the economic cost, but it sacrifices the music's meaning itself. They see authors like consumer producers as employees at the service of the industry (the master and lord, the one who rules). In fact, calling a musical creator a "producer" is sinister... The meaning of "producer" implies that he doesn't create, but rather generates products. I will never be a producer in an industrial factory. I want to create my own music. Qtractor is designed in a logical, simple, flexible, and efficient way. At first, you may not understand the logic in some details. But once you understand it, everything flows. Everything is at your fingertips, where it should be, and in the way that makes the most sense. This avoids the excessive configuration and cumbersome processes we're accustomed to with other DAWs. It oozes freedom in every approach. It offers a basic framework with functional modules. This allows you to create your own workflows, instead of having to learn hundreds of rigid workflows imposed by industrial DAWs. There are approaches in Qtractor that I don't agree with. However, it's so flexible that even in those cases, I've managed to get Qtractor to work according to my approach, not the original one. The technical support is literally incredible. Bugs (sometimes there are, although it's not the norm) are resolved within hours of being reported. Yes, you read that right, within hours. Thanks, Rui, for everything.

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(NB: Sourceforge does NOT remember the line breaks, so this review will be displayed as a loooooong single paragraph!! *facepalm*) ---- tl;dr: Use AVLinux. It is based on MXLinux with the Liquorix kernel: bandshed.net/avlinux) ---- Full Review ---- I have used QTractor to do basic recordings of my drums and guitar, etc. However, Audacity can do these things, now, although it will crash much, much more. Also, unless you have a specifically-compiled and configured kernel (with a 1kHz internal timer) it is terrible at synchronising MIDI and audio, so don't use it for MIDI with audio. ---- As with most 'big ideas' on Linux, it seems that one person's perfect idea causes other people usability problems. ---- The first and most important thing to note (If you're new to Linux) is that the kernel that comes with most distros is, apparently, unsuitable for DAW work. ---- Strange how most Linux distros seem crippled in this way when compared to the Windows kernel, which can select real-time priorities with ALL Windows versions! With so many different, incompatible kernels to develop for, most of us will likely end up having the "wrong" kernel [SMH]. Also, unless you're an experienced coder, recompiling the Linux kernel can take days to work out, get right and test, days which are not being used to record your music, so... :/ ---- Another confusing part is that when you create a new project, set it up and click record to record a track, it just asks you to save the project first before you can record. It requires you to work in a rather eccentric manner. Maybe the author thinks we should all work in the same way as them? Maybe the program drops all recordings into the project folder - which it actually asks if you want to create when creating the project, pmsl. ('Folder xxx doesn't exist. Create it?' Errrr... That would be useful. O_o) ---- IMHO, creating a new project should create the structure, too. ---- It seems that you are expected to set up a rather specific combination of hardware, kernel, kernel build, software and software configuration. ---- I remember when you could just do things on Windows, but, alas, it seems Linux is having a very hard time at brushing off the egotistical devs who want everything their way (you know, because "everybody else is doing Linux wrong!" [SMH]) ---- I HIGHLY recommend AVLinux, (based on MXLinux with the Liquorix kernel : bandshed.net/avlinux/) It has the prerequisite realtime kernel and threaded IRQs with IRQ priorities (to prioritise audio hardware I/O), oodles of functional built-in software that JUST WORKS (including Jack!) ---- Don't just install QTractor - It will be a nightmare. Instead, download MXLinux if you want a dedicated Linux DAW. Otherwise, unless you like to try, test and tinker instead of being productive and getting things recorded, you will have a VERY bad time. ---- QTractor STILL (since ~2011) has sync issues and is almost useless when it comes to MIDI & audio mixed projects. Just don't even try - You need a kernel of a specific build, etc.. The whole mess is a red flag, and the epitome of Linux open source development - NOBODY wants to work together because everybody else is just wrong. ---- IMHO, QTractor is a terrible name and has an awful windows 95 icon. Though it could be worse, it could be a modern' flat 'paper'-style icon. That would complete the style nausea. And the track listing on the left can take up 1/3 of your horizontal screen space, without being able to make the 'Instrument' column narrower (even when empty) and you can't select which columns to display, so everything has scrollbars... Maybe if you had 4k monitor it would look a bit better? But 4k monitors are not a prerequisite for any other DAW software I've used. ---- Also, the zoom functionality is broken. You can zoom in and out horizontally using CTRL+Mouse Wheel, however vertical zoom only zooms out, no matter which way you scroll the mouse wheel. ---- The interface is... Well... Interesting and frustrating. You have a PERMANENTLY floating mixer, which you can't seem to change the WIDTH of the channels, so everything is truncated (including some graphics!) the desktop quickly becomes a mess of windows if you also have MIDI soft synths, etc. ---- It just looks like a child has designed the interface, TBQH. Working with the markers is hap-hazard. I can't move the loop markers without moving the 'selection' markers, or whatever they are... It's just a confusing mess. ---- The transport clock updates the bar/time about as frequently as Teletext did, which is useless for visual syncing. ---- I HIGHLY recommend Ardour on MX Linux - It's the perfect DAW! I got soooo much more done in MX Linux with Ardour (using the built-in Intel audio interface) than trying to get QTractor to work consistently with any other distro. ---- Like many other programs on Linux, somebody had a very different idea about how these applications should function, and it's not usually an expert with experience, it's usually just someone with a blinding passion, usually enough to fool themselves into thinking they can write code for people who don't think like they do. ---- And (again, like too many open source projects) the documentation for QTractor is a decade old, so... :/ ---- Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have tried using QTractor for serious work on my workstation. I would have a separate PC for recording and just install MX Linux on it. ---- I don't usually go out of my way to create an account just to write a software review, but producers and artists NEED to know about MX Linux before they potentially waste a lot of time installing and trying to get QTractor to work properly! ---- As Qtractor's author has said publicly: "[...]Ardour is a genuine DAW (later with [...] sequencer features) while qtractor is [...] more like a genuine sequencer (with some DAW features).[...]" ---- Lastly, how can anyone find a four-word review useful???

Qtractor is a good program and the support by the developer with some issues is really fast. This is a Opensource Program with a 5 star tech support like private software. Amazing product and amazing tech support by ticket system.

The best daw I've used! Easy to use and very practical