[LAU] The State of Bitwig

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Wed, January 30, 2013 7:23 am, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Patrick Shirkey
> <pshirkey at boosthardware.com
>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Very positive evangelising for Linux systems as a music creation
>> platform.
>> Clearly they have seen the market potential.
>>
>> Will it integrate with JACK or are they doing everything on their own
>>
>
> i did not hear what toolkit they are using. i would not be surprised if it
> is JUCE, in which case they rely on its JACK support.
>

There was a very breif mention of jack at the end of the interview but
nothing specific.

>
>> particularly in regards to v2 with the network collaboration support?
>>
>
> you would have to be nuts to think about netjack as anything more than the
> starting point for network collaboration.
>

We use it for our clusters over here and it does a pretty damn good job of
enabling serious networked automation.

Of course it depends if you want to be able to do realtime performance or
simply realtime collaboration and production over a clustered stack.

In combination with some of the other network capable multimedia
production tools things get very interesting very quickly if you know what
want to achieve.




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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd