3 Aug
2011
3 Aug
'11
11:02 a.m.
Hence I said "at best", meaning, in the
best case scenario some FOSS
tools may be functionally equivalent. I think the exception might be
JACK, as the case could be made that it is functionally superior to
any other inter-application audio and midi routing framework.
as good as JACK is, it's a little bit of a red herring.
JACK needs to be as good as it is for any linux audio to be worthwhile.
when you have lots of things doing seperate jobs then yes you need
something like JACK to be able to deal with it all.
proprietary music software such as cubase/ableton live/protools doesn't
need anything like that. pretty much everything needed to work is
available inside the main program or as a plugin opened inside the main
program. for anything else rewire suffices and rewire is a hell of a lot
easier to deal with than JACK, open the master program first then the
slave and rewire is automatically engaged and routing audio/midi between
both programs is available in the same way you would route tracks inside
the program.
so if you have someone used to being able to work in such a way then
they're going to find it very hard to adjust to a very different way of
working.
time spent learning a whole new way of working could potentially kill any
inspiration you have.