---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [LAU] [PlanetCCRMA] Mixer Wowes To: Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)kokkinizita.net> I'll get the herbs and incense..... Why make things even more complicated? And the enforced latency? Why doesn't anyone ever mention this 'feature' of pulse? Might be alright for some who want to play pop music on their pc, but what about serious audio use? We already have a professional server for audio and midi. Why do the 'minority' who have the passion and determination to use these tools for a living, have to compromise, yet again to satisfy those who would prefer using mixed use boxes, instead of pure use rigs that smack anything else in the OS world for performance? (I don't have a CRAY installed in the shed, so ok, maybe one challenge us fairly seriously....) If this is in the works, then i ask the jack team to consider keeping a 'pure' strain of jack going, for those of us who don't want to drink the pulse koolaid, and all the hype that has gone with that, including the pain of setting it up. (And don't tell me pulse is easier to fix when it glitches, cos i'll be too busy laughing to reply. And i defy you to tell me it doesn't glitch...) I have the greatest of respect for the abilities, skills, and generosity of linux devs, but let's be real here. If the take up of jack audio and midi had been more enthusiastically embraced as a total professional solution by app builders, then we wouldn't even be considering this. What's next? Pulse midi in every distro by default ? So the minority who don't want to use it have to traincrash their build just to remove the debris of that too? *choke* Alex. On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)kokkinizita.net> wrote: -- Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...) -- Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...)