[LAU] Fwd: What Live is about (was: Re: ableton live in vmware)

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Rob wrote:

> Nope, but if you are the next undiscovered John Williams and not a computer
> scientist, what I'm seeing is that Ableton will probably get in your way
> less than half a dozen loosely connected programs with few if any sensible
> default settings and little to no way to save all their states at once
> (LASH is not there and may never get there) will.

Agreed.  FWIW, this discussion should probably be on LAD... because a lot 
of the folks making big contributions to the thread are saying, "Ableton 
is really good.  What could we *do* to get Linux audio that good?"

But... I could see how on the LAU list people might get a little peevish 
at others setting up huge Rube Goldberg systems to try and emulate the 
functionality of an innovative and monolithic app like Live.  I don't 
blame you.  And: you're right.  :-)

Still, this thread is not idle chatter -- even when people talk about a 
few things that are a little over their head (because they're inspired). 
This sort of discussion is how apps like JACK get born.

For anyone that's keeping score, we've started doing planning on the 
Hydrogen Dev list.  Yes, the Hydrogen back-end is not up to it, yet. 
However, upgrading the back-end was *already* planned before we started 
this discussion.  And who knows, when we get done we might sit back and 
say, "Hmmm... Hydrogen isn't right for this."  But, ATM, some of us who 
know Hydrogen well think it could be a good fit.

Peace,
Gabriel