On 26/03/15 22:46, Len Ovens wrote: It almost saddens me you guys talk about this as is if it is is Linux specific! I would have been at college 1997-99 studying Sound Engineering and at the time remember Steinberg bringing out the first version of Cubase VST (before it meant the plugin system and actually meant Virtual Studio Technology, well supposedly...) And on the most powerful computers at my college, specifically bought to run just this, you could play a handful of audio tracks with minimal effects OK, or you could control some external MIDI ok. Try doing MIDI and internal audio and it was a nasty experience with near zero chance of timing success though!! no matter what the marketing blurb said! In fact I would said both the Amiga and the Atari were ahead of the game of running both audio and midi on the same box at least 5 years previously! And even at that time people trying to use MacOS for it were struggling almost as much as PC users (maybe not quite and purely one or the other was definitely tighter.) So please don't think only linux audio sucked in the late 90's!! (and beyond.......)

Le 27 mars 2015 à 18:29, Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> a écrit : Well, I can remember using (Rythm'n Soft) BigBoss24 v3 Midi sequencer under MS-DOS on a Intel DX486-100MHz with an MPU-401 card on the ISA bus and an external "Creative" expander back in around 1991, this was a revolution for me while only one friend had an Atari ! The version 4 of this software ran under Win 3.1 I guess very few people ever used this software. Only many years later (1997?) i was told about Linux existence. Raphaël