What are the advantages of Reaper over Ardour? =)

All the SMS texting talk is giving me a headache. Ardour has something like 10% of the functionality of Reaper, and if you are planning on running it in Linux you've got the bonus of hardware nightmares, driver headaches, no plugins, no decent audio editor, barely any other audio tools worth using, oh and, having to compile half the stuff yourself, once you've compiled the compiler. Go have fun!

Ah! The simplicity of configuring and using audio on linux :D

linux is simply a joke to me, i dont feel like spending more time configuring than composing or creating. ardour runs on linux so...

Please post your 'advantages of Reaper vs. Ardour' TEXT here =) 

Hey Butter Doll, why don't you go spamming another forum? Leave us peaceful people alone here, we have no need for that kind of pollution. Raphael ;)

O boy! U R going 2 make him spam again when he C's that his request seems 2 B faulty!!!

Advantages of REAPER over Ardour: 1. REAPER runs on the widest spread OS (for home users, not talking servers here), MS Windows, and supports the second widest spread OS, MacOS. It is know to run on Linux via WINE. vs. Ardour only runs on Linux and MacOS. Or does it run on Windows as well (maybe Cygwin or some such)? 2. With ASIO REAPER supports a direct communication path to the hardware bypassing all middleware. vs. Ardour AFAIK will always need the Jack server running to communicate with the audio output, or can it use say OSS or ALSA directly? 3. REAPER has JesuSonic. An easy to learn audio effects scripting language. vs. Has Ardour something comparable? 4. REAPER can be modified by humans via macros to achieve tasks that would have no been possible before. vs. While Ardour in theory could be modified even more, because it is open source, I think only a few people actually can do it and less few will actually do it. 5. REAPER has a clean and lean UI. That is also customizable. vs. Ardour ... can you use different themes? Because some people might dislike dark UIs. 6. etc.. etc.. On another note, I think Linux is bound to stay what it is. Because there is no consistency, e.g. just look at the audio plug-in architecture, you got LADSPA, but that didn't support instruments so some one invented DSSI, but the later found out the both suck so now there is LV2. Same with sound architecture, there was OSS then there was ALSA, then OSS tried to go on commercial ventures, then ALSA got a OSS backward layer, OSS was replaced in the kernel with ALSA, then OSS was GPL'd and got an ALSA compatibility layer, apart from that there was ESD, Jack, etc... in any minute some genius might not like all those and fork another project out of them, just to abandon it later on, because he needs to get a 24/7 day job to support his family or something... sorry but that's my experience so far with "free" software. Anyway since you seem so knowledgeable in Linux can you answer me a simple question. Do you think that ALSA supports the new Phonic Helix Board 24 Universal, because when I tried to get info from some Linux folks, I got zero valuable information, all they're giving me was grief, dunno why. Anyway hope you fare well with Ardour. P.S. Why the hell do you spam in the same post over and over again? Not very logical nor nice.

Dude nobody here cares about Ardour, and very few care about Linux.