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

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 09/03/2009 12:32 PM, Chris Wenn wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Paul Davis 
> <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com <mailto:paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Patrick
>     Shirkey<pshirkey at boosthardware.com
>     <mailto: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.
>
>
> That's the impression I got from the situation - they recognised that 
> a significant portion of the Max userbase were either already using 
> Live + Soundflower + Max (or some other kludge) or were interested in 
> interoperability.
>
> This market seems pretty tightly pegged to the Apple platform. At 
> least here in Oz, Max users tend to pick it up at university, where 
> there's pretty high saturation of Apple hardware.



So I guess as it's a market based decision then there is a slim 
possibility of AL adding support for jack assuming the market is big 
enough. Probalby not for another 5 years at least.




Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd





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