[LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

[david]

sim a wrote:
> 
>  > Hence I said "at best", meaning, in the best case scenario some FOSS
>  > tools may be functionally equivalent. I think the exception might be
>  > JACK, as the case could be made that it is functionally superior to
>  > any other inter-application audio and midi routing framework.
> 
> as good as JACK is, it's a little bit of a red herring.
> 
> JACK needs to be as good as it is for any linux audio to be worthwhile. 
> when you have lots of things doing seperate jobs then yes you need 
> something like JACK to be able to deal with it all.
> 
> proprietary music software such as cubase/ableton live/protools doesn't 
> need anything like that.

Suggest changing term from "proprietary" to "monolithic". Difference in 
philosophy when designing programs. You can do monolithic programs on 
Linux just as well as you can on Windows or OS X.

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David
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