22 Sep
2016
22 Sep
'16
7:58 p.m.
On 09/22/2016 07:30 PM, Tito Latini wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:16:12AM -0500, Paul Davis
wrote:
[...]
Did anyone say it was? Why does it matter if it's innovation?
Compared to all the prior-art, I suppose the interesting part of Link is
momentum behind it, along with the apple-style dictated protocol: take
it as-is or leave it. Not the usual years of consortium design
discussions which may or may not eventually result in consensus and more
like a floss-like benevolent dictator style (think jack, or LV2).
The closest thing to innovation is "Pro Audio company that usually does
closed-source proprietary software publishes an API and reference
implementation under GPLv2" and it work on GNU/Linux, too.
That's pretty cool IMHO and I wish more companies would do that!
Also coming up with a protocol is the easier part. Documenting it,
pushing it out to users, gaining traction in the industry etc is the
hard part.
2c,
robin
> Ableton have now done that, albeit by
circumventing the hardest parts of
> the problem (a tempo map with varying meter and tempo).
What?
I repeat: that's not an innovation.