24 Mar
2004
24 Mar
'04
1:23 p.m.
Actually, this is not a very revolutionary program.
You have
had the possibility to run vst instruments in linux since
november/december 2002.
I had seen a screenshot or two before, but I think the point I was
making is that new screenshots of this kind can be useful to show to
people who are only familiar with proprietary software, and therefore
take incompatibility for granted.
To give an example, a few years ago it was not possible to use a Mac
format floppy disc in a standard Windows machine (I don't know if
that's still the case). The Windows machine would give the impression
that the floppy was not formatted at all, and would prompt you to
reformat and destroy your data. But if the Windows machine
dual-booted with Linux, you could read the exact same Mac floppy on
the same PC hardware, and copy over your Mac files to the Windows
partition.
Now to you and me, who know what a filesystem is, that's handy but not
a big deal. But to the Mac or Windows user who doesn't know, this is
nothing short of miraculous - as if a natural law had been defied.
The same would apply to an easy to use VSTi host that works on a Linux
box - because VST/VSTi users know that when you change platform, or
go from OS 9 to OS X, you have to buy new versions of the plugins you
already have.
Cheers!
Daniel