[linux-audio-user] Re: Commercial audio software on Linux

Hartmut Noack zettberlin at linuxuse.de
Sat Aug 19 13:11:26 EDT 2006


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Davy Wentzler schrieb:
> Hello Ismael,
> 
>> Are we talking of a closed sourced commercial app or an open sourced
>> one?
> Closed source.

If you want to sell closed sofware for Linux, you need to offer
something, that is not available yet and not too likely to be developed
soon as free software.
The only thing that i see right now to fit such a description in the
audioscene would be an all-in-one suite with features like this:

absolute 100% stability
advanced interoperability (plugins including VST, jack, fileformats
import/export etc)
unlimited audio and midi-tracks
both destructive and none-destructive Wave-editing, (a decent
scoreeditor would be nice)
total recall including plugins
good usability allowing fast and standardcompliant access to every feature
very good documentation
easy standalone installation (open source progs can rely on lots of
dependencies for they can use the packagemanagement-system, commercial
software should install as known on MS-Win from a single
click-installationfile)

There is no open-source audioapp today, that has all of these features,
so this could be your chance. As I see on your website, your app apeares
to have no midi-tracks. If you want to sell some copies for Linux, a
bare Waveeditor should be as powerfull as.... say - Samplitude at least.
For a native Linux-Samplitude i would maybe even pay about 100,- Euros
or so (though I think, that magix sells them for about 400....).

Another chance could be a OEM-Deal with M-Audio - their Delta-Cards are
great for Linux and they maybe could consider to have a Linuxapp in
their bundle... some day....

good luck and best regards

Z

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