22 Jan
2008
22 Jan
'08
1:49 p.m.
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 12:25 -0500, Darren Landrum wrote:
I thought we were all on the same side?
There might be tendencies, but it's not one side.
* Ardour looks, behaves, and has almost the exact same
feature set as it
did two years ago. (Nobody in the commercial world is still using a
32-bit mixing engine, not even Pro-Tools.)
You haven't looked closely enough. What's wrong with 32 bit floating
point or Ardour's "mixing engine"?
You can go ahead and tell me to leave if I don't
like it, but the truth
is, I like the spirit of the Free Software world, and if I feel I can
contribute something worthwhile, then I will. It's just too bad that we
can't seem to work together on some issues.
Some do work together on some issues. Not everyone's pulling in the same
direction. Never will.
I came to here from Reaper, hoping to have seen the
whole idea of audio
production on Linux advance. And it has, to a point, but now you're at a
crossroads: Do you want an elite club, or do you want to see the world
of Linux audio spread far and wide?
There's no single we, not even one road.
If Justin doesn't want to implement LV2 in Reaper,
that's his choice.
No one claimed different.
So the
choice becomes, do you want LV2 to stay elite, or do you want an
industry standard?
Industry standard? Call it that if Steinberg and Apple adopt it ;)
Open source doesn't do anybody any good if nobody
wants to use it.
See, it's rather that some don't want to use anything else.
As for me, my interest is in DSP and coding plug-ins.
I got started
playing around in Reaper's Jesusonic. Now I want to grow my skills in a
useful direction. Is that going to be LV2, or VST3? I wish I knew.
Think about who you would want to be able to use your plugins under
which circumstances.
--
Thorsten Wilms
thorwil's design for free software:
http://thorwil.wordpress.com/