25 Sep
2006
25 Sep
'06
4:13 p.m.
On Monday 25 September 2006 19:12, linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu
wrote:
Rosegarten is almost there. Ardour for all-audio work is very nice once one
figures out its interface. Muse is fun is soft-synths are the objective. The
new LMMS and others are moving along.
One thing, though: Many of us started out in M$ or Macs. A lot of good work is
in formats of Cakewalk, Steinberg, Protools, etc. The real move to Linux will
require interoperability and this is simply not there. New projects, once I
have equvilatent quality hardware with Alsa support ($), can be done quite
fine in Linux. All else remains on the "other" partition.
While wine-asio (I have also proposed a jack-assio [SIC] which would be
native) will enable some apps to try to work with an emulation layer, do not
expect realistic (that is real-time) operation. I have only one audio-app
which cuts the grade under wine and that is the har-bal demo (no M# code,
according to the author, maybe that's why).
One thing that
bothers me though, is why are Linux peeps playing with M$
apps instead of funneling that energy towards replacements in native
Linux?
What a strange thing to say. The majority of the Linux audio software out
there is capable of far more than offering simple feature replacements for
commercial windows applications. Have you even looked into the options?
(http://linux-sound.org/)