22 Jan
2014
22 Jan
'14
9:52 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:09:39 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote
Fine.
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:31 PM, R. Mattes wrote:
1. Last time I checked, Novation, M-Audio, Roland etc. had no OSC
keyboards, just regular MIDI ones :)
It would at least be a way to overcome the lack of LV2/LADSPA support by
routing signals via jack into a LV2/LADSPA host. But for that you'd need
a way to control plugin parameters (no, 7bit Midi isn't appropriate for that).
No LV2 or
LADSPA support on Linux, though, although they say it's planned.
At least it supports Jack.
probably no Linux VST either, which essentially means no plugins at all? a
bit of
wild choice ...
No OSC either ... 2. Whether Linux VST is present is a goddamn
_question_ :) Let's not
jump at conclusions, shall we?
Well, as they say: you get what you pay for (and nothing more!). Whether Bitwig
will later on implement Linux plugin suport _will_ most likely depend on their
Linux market share. And _that_ depends on the feature completness of that port.
Releasing the linux port as a second class citizen is anything but a good omen.
So we have a
heavily crippled Linux version for 300 Euro?
Who will buy this?
Me. Bitwig is a tool primarily for composition and live
performance. You
don't need every single plugin out there for that, and Bitwig appears
to have enough built-in effects and instruments to get cracking.
I'm looking forward to both improved MIDI editing in A3 and whatever
Harry has in the pipeline for Luppp, but so far Bitwig looks like
exactly what I need for experimenting, trying ideas etc. In terms of
going from an idea to an actual sound that represents it no
DAW/sequencer I tried on Linux is good enough, in my humble opinion.
(At which point the usual LAU hell breaks loose, I suppose.)
Why? I shure hope you get the functionallity equivalent to 300 Euros -
and Bitwig doesn't change their mind and stop Linux support without
later updates (BTW - the licence you buy is for all platforms?).
Cheers, RalfD