Re: [LAD] automation on Linux (modular approach)

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona(a)gmail.com> wrote: Louigi, In an ideal world this would be feasible. But when there are many types of use case, and mature apps are already coded with different formats, it'll be quite a task to bring something like this to fruition. Add to that the various ideas for and against those differing formats, and the task becomes near impossible. Nice thought, and i've been wishing for the same, but reality may see this as a step too far, given the passion with which devs and users will defend their particular corner. Like you, i see automation stream management as a basic function at the foundation of any working environment, for our field, and in particular, for the modular nature of linux audio. I think the toughest part of this would be for apps whose devs have chosen to write for multi architectures. As long as users are plugged into using jack, in Linux, win, and mac, then there's a window of opportunity, but outside of the commonality that is jack, then aligning formats becomes a formidable task. If not using Jack, then i'm not sure you'll ever see this come to life. Midi as a format is ok (it's all we have in most cases), but it does have it's llmitations. A hard call i think. Alex. -- www.openoctave.org midi-subscribe(a)openoctave.org development-subscribe(a)openoctave.org