[nubizus]

Thanks for valuable information. I am planning to make a little home studio for me and my friends, would you be so kind to give me advice in which DAW to invest my time, and what are alternatives on linux regarding support of thunderbolt or usb interfaces. Is windows the only future-proof and viable option for producing music nowadays? Thanks in advance.

[fxtentacle]

My impression is that most Hollywood work is now done with Pro Tools on Windows. For example, I know for sure that Expendables 3 was mastered this way.

For classical music and bluray mastering, I hear the most from Nuendo users on Windows. Their cheaper variant Cubase is popular for audiobook production.

For music production, BitWig and REAPER are currently the rising stars. Both are popular on Linux:

https://www.bitwig.com/download/

https://www.reaper.fm/download.php#linux_download

BitWig especially fits in with the hacker spirit because you can modify and script almost everything.

They also have many features for live shows and / or DJing. That market used to be squarely owned by Ableton on Mac, but the latter has recently fallen out of favor over plugin compatibility issues with newer effect VSTs.

For broadcast, meaning TV shows and live sports streaming, I heard that BBC and the likes are using LAWO which are custom integrated hardware+software solutions capable of loading Linux VST plugins.

https://www.lawo.de/up-to-date/news/nbsp/floating_earth_uses...