[LAU] [LAD] Linux Audio 2012: Is Linux Audio moving forward?

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

On 10/11/2012 01:21 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Nils Gey wrote:
>
>> Could it be that we are so far behind that our brightest and most
>> creative minds still have to concentrate on the underlying general
>> purpose tools instead on specialized short-term software? (such as
>> synths and samplers. These follow a trend and are still driven by
>> technological innovation, so each orchestral lib really sounds better
>> than another one two years earlier)
> Nail on the head, Nils.
>
> The next person who thinks about inventing a new session manager,
> please just do something useful instead :)
>

I disagree. The session management evolution was (and still is) very 
important to leverage the non-monolithic software available on Linux 
system with an at least bearable amount of comfort.. We can hope that 
large do-it-all monolithic programs will find their way to Linux 
eventually, but I wouldn't hold my breath. IMHO it makes much more sense 
to concentrate on that which open source excels on: Small, modular, 
software that can be combined in new and ingenious ways.. I must admit 
to having lost track of the session management discussion a while ago 
(after I added jack_session support to some software of mine - then I 
got a 9-5 job that made my life miserable, cause I didn't have the 
energy for linux audio anymore ;D), but I'm curious towards what NSM et. 
al. have to offer...

Flo