[linux-audio-user] recording delay in Ardour...

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:25, Rick Taylor wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> >Reaktor
> 
>  ftp://www.slabexchange.org/pub/audio/bristol-0.9.1-linux-glibc.tar.bz2
> 
>  {Ok... so it's not Reaktor}
> 
>  He's not got any real info on his pages for it... I'm saving you a step.
> 

Yes, I've used it, but it's not even in the same game, much less the
same league. I think the much more similar might be something more like
AMS, which I admit I haven't used. It looks quite good though.

It does raise an interesting point for me though. The reason I went with
Reaktor Session and not Reaktor is that I do NOT want to program sounds.
I just wanted to get a bunch of preprogrammed synths and find some new
sounds that I could use, which I was able to do in about 10 minutes of
installation. 

The neat thing (for me anyway) about Reaktor is the on-line user
contributed library of about 1500 prebuilt synths that come with, on
average, maybe 10 preprogrammed patches. That's a lot of stuff to get on
day one. Why isn't something like that happening in the Linux soft synth
area? Instead of having so many soft synths, which seems more a focus on
writing software, why not more sounds for some existing soft synth,
which seems more a focus on making music?

I think we Linux soft synth users should try to make that happen.

- Mark