[linux-audio-user] Acid for Linux ?

[Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos]

On Monday 09 December 2002 03:32, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> What is hard about these apps?
Nothing is hard about those, but they are not offering all the possibilities 
as of yet - although I'm confident that given the necessary time they will be 
a fine set of tools. Perhaps I came a bit too harsh but that was not my 
intention. When you spoke of using musical apps the "un*x way" I thought you 
were refering to command / list-file based apps and methodologies. If you 
refer to the Un*x way as the modularization paradigm of independent tools 
communicating on a bidirectional pipeline (as the one JACK offers), well I 
couldn't agree more! :-) As I said before, if there is one thing I terribly 
miss under windows is exactly that power of real-time intercommunication of 
different, independent apps. In a subthread of this topic there has been 
mention of ReWire, but I have to agree with the counter-post that ReWire is 
still based on the "big container to put stuff in" idea, which is a lot more 
limited than the possibilities of what a generalised "JACKed" environment can 
offer. 
You also said that the expectancy of porting windows tools over at linux is 
very dim if non-existant. Remember when linux was just a playground for 
coders/hackers (intended with the jargon file meaning, not the mass-media 
one) with a passion?  Look at linux now, in the video-editing scene. In fact, 
I'm quite optimistic on this: audio and music on linux simply had a later 
start (perhaps due to a rather prolonged lack of efficient drivers for 
higher-end soundcards?) than other tasks. I consider Steinberg's stance over 
porting VST to linux was, to use mild words, short-eyed. But we've got LADSPA 
anyway... Give some skilled synth&FX developers some time credit and we will 
have powerful stuff in our hands (there are already some very nice ones 
around). 
Let's get back to the original poster's question: "is there an analogous of 
what AND how to do stuff with ACID in linux?" The answer is "not as of yet, 
at least not fully. But it's getting there...."