[LAD] OT: Bitwig beta for Linux reviewed

On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 22:14 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: Hi Louigi, for Qtractor I e.g. experienced that when I play a part of a song as loop, that hardware synth, software synth and audio after a few minutes are completely out of sync, when using Qtractor. As we all know, jack transport can't do loop play. Qtractor and Rosegarden can't mute individual clips, it's only possible to mute tracks, perhaps it can be automated, but for easily arranging a song it's better to be able to mute and unmute clips by click. You can't see the difference between clips with own data files and clips that share the data file with other clips for Qtractor (for Cubase such clips are called "ghosts" and they are shadowed). IIRC Muse can mute individual clips, but Muse never was able to run on my machine. I tested it for different distros, in different years. The way recording is handled, when recording in loop play, is not that manifold as for old proprietary sequencers. However, we can use those FLOSS Linux apps, but just a few people can test Bitwig. Regards, Ralf @ the topic: We already have some software that does run on Linux and I'm sceptic to read that Bitwig should provide all kinds of features we are missing for Linux at the moment or missing for any OS at the moment. A tester wrote that there are technical issues, that VST and AU are supported and the audio binding should be less good, than it should be for Ardour. Bitwig should be an native Linux app, but seemingly it isn't. Bitwig quasi should be what many people, including me, are waiting for. But I don't trust those folks, they already made that much noise, I only know from Gates, Apple and Zuckerberg, when they present something that is ready for the market. I'm seemingly not the only one who is sceptic, when taking a look at the graphic design of Bitwig.