[Jack-Devel] No DAWism, please.

[John Rigg]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:00:46PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> I love Ardour. It is the heart of many of my important workflows. But  
> there are other equally important workflows that don't require Ardour,  
> or any other DAW. Jack is not about DAWs only.
> audio stuff done that is otherwise impossible to get done. Jack is not  
> for Aunt Tilly to hear her "you have mail" chime, or for people to watch  
> youtube in. Jack is for pros, experimenters, production environments.
> Jack is used all over the world to drive systems with more speakers than  
> Aunt Tilly has years.
>
> Anything that makes Jack even more useful to DAW users or even Aunt  
> Tilly is welcome, as long as it doesn't affect the pro usecases. Tack on  
> a session manager, nice, go ahead. Turn Jack into an inflamed appendix  
> of the fashionable usecase of the day, not ok.
> Anything that will cause any "you have mail" chimes to end up on my PA  
> systems without me having asked for it explicitly will get a personal  
> visit from me and my 22 wrench for a quick brainstorming session on  
> systems design.

Another excellent post which sums up my own views exactly.

John