Skull beat me to the punch but yah, I agree. For multiple reasons: don't make the tool the focus of your project(s) because that is bound to cause problems in the longer run. Don't look at what tools might be "cool" to use but instead look at what would work best for
you.
Heck, even a DAW such as
Reaper could already provide a solid basis, optionally supported by stuff from (for example)
free VST's (though I'd consider the
TAL plugins a must-have, even the free stuff). I don't see any of that easily working on FreeBSD to be honest.
Then there's the issue of drivers. On Windows we have ASIO ("
Audio
Stream
Input/
Output") which allows audio software direct & unconditional access to your audio hardware (even bypassing official drivers), this greatly reduces latency. Mac OS also supports direct access but I believe it's out of the box (supported by the OS itself) but I'm not sure since I only use Windows as my client OS.
Yah, I don't see this easily working on FreeBSD (nor Linux). Worse yet: you'll have to limit your hardware choices on what's supported, not based on what will work best for you. And that can be a very critical and problematic issue for your creative process.
I'm also not saying that this cannot work no matter what, but I am convinced that it won't be very ideal. I've been working with digital audio for over 10 years now and only once came across someone who was using Linux, or trying to. He eventually bailed to Mac.