Linux/Protools (was: Re: Preach it! [was: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Behringer

[R Parker]

--- Ryan Gallagher <ruinaudio at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:47 -0800, Mark Knecht
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:16:16 +0100 (CET), Kjetil
> Svalastog Matheussen
> > <k.s.matheussen at notam02.no> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Mark Knecht:
> > > >
> > > > BTW - I truly think that in the next 12-24
> months Digi will release
> > > > PTLE for Linux
>  
> > > What digidesign should do, is to make their own
> specialized distribution
> > > of linux to run protools
> 
> > I agree about rolling their own distro. That makes
> tons of sense for
> > the Pro Market
> 
> I'm so sorry to be the one to inject the reality
> (read: doom and gloom)
> here... there's absolutely no way in hell Avid will
> ever hire/train or
> otherwise enlist linux developers to create a whole
> freaking new
> distro.... ever.
> 
> They're not in the OS business, and never will be...
> I was suggesting
> the very remote and distant possiblity of a
> linux-embedded automated
> console... not a distro.
> 
> I'll bet the house on this one -> DigiDesign will
> not become a linux
> distributor/vendor.
> 
> We really should all be throwing our shoulders
> behind ardour, working to
> make a DAW better than PT anyway.  Mark, maybe we
> should raise the issue
> of PTLE interoperability on the ardour-dev list
> again?  Paul was open to
> it when last it came up... it was just disecting
> that session
> format/file standing in the way IIRC.

I think it's on the development roadmap. Maybe not.
It's an important feature.

I recently lost a remix and master job because it was
recorded in PT. I didn't really want the job anyway
but if I did it would have cost them to much to have
me deal with it.

ron

> -ry
> 
> -- 
> Ryan Gallagher <ruinaudio at comcast.net>
> 
> 



		
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