[linux-audio-user] ANN: JOST, a simple host for native VST - juce and gui theming

[Hartmut Noack]

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Malte Steiner schrieb:
> I am a developer and I will jump in on some projects to help Linux
> Audio. But also do some of my own projects, I feel the need of realtime
> synths, either plugin or standalone. 

Great! Thank you! Could you also have a look at ams?:

http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/

this is one great powerfull realtimesynth and it needs a maintainer
desperately - you might even fork it, but to loose this one entirely
would be a major shame...

> I have not decided yet to create
> DSSI or application, as someone mentionend before, the plugin idea is
> something from the closed source world which not applys to Linux.


??? Modularity is one of the fundamental principles of UNIX since day
one - a pluginsystem like DSSI or LADSPA has the one great advantage
above standalone-apps that patches and combinations of plugins can
easily be stored in the hosts projectfile so you get the one thing, that
is really one of the biggest drawbacks for Linuxaudio: total recall...


> 
> BTW what is the state of the wired sequencer? I never got time to check
> it out but it looks promising. 

It LOOKS great indeed, but even lmms does much better for me. Not very
stable hard to install, not as many oppotunities as one would wish - has
got a long way to go to get to the point, Muse offers since 2-3 years.


> In my opinion we shouldnt recreate the interfaces of the well known
> closed applications without questioning it. 

To a certain point I agree with chris cannam on this: to clone a
wellknown proprietary app just for the sake to clone/rival it is
pointless. Why not use the freedom to do something, that is exactly as
one wants it and thus not bound to resemble known schemes but to provide
 something as good as possible.

> Issues I would be happy to discuss soon in Berlin.

Yeah!! Let us do that! :-) I'll be there all 4 days and intend to have
some party saturday night :-)

see you all

Hartmut Noack
http://linuxuse.de

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