[LAU] modular audio apps and control-communication was: off topic

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Wed Sep 2 22:24:48 EDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Patrick
Shirkey<pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote:
> So I guess they wanted things to be as tightly integrated as possible for
> performance reasons?

i had some extended conversations with one of ableton's founders about
this, and he talked about it in one of my classes at the TU.
basically, they wanted to tap into the "max crowd", however you
interpret that, which they felt that Live currently didn't do. they
saw/see a lot of skill and cool stuff going on with max that can't be
done in Live. their idea seems to have been to try to integrate that
as tightly as possble into Live, so that people who create cool max
patches can use them as if they were builtin processing objects in
Live. not "max connected to Live" (which is already possible with
JACK, and they know it). at present, there is no "distribution" system
for those patches, but that didn't seemed to be ruled out for the
future.



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