Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] a new application underway
From: David Olofson (audiality_AT_swipnet.se)
Date: pe loka 08 1999 - 21:53:38 EDT
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
[...ALSA sequencer...]
> What kind of program does this ? Well, certainly most audio applications
> don't need this, because they have the DAC to provide a time sync
> source. But pure MIDI apps don't have this, and so the sequencer is
> very useful for them. Programs that typically don't continuously
> output samples would also benefit from it.
Ok, very valid point. (I keep forgetting that you're having trouble waking up
in time out there... :-)
[...]
> >Besides, MIDI automation won't do for non-destructive hard disk
> >editing,
>
> tell that to Mackie&Digidesign: the HUI and ProTools collaborate in
> exactly this way (well, i don't know how exactly, because I don't know
> whether ProTools stores the automation events as MIDI data or using
> its own event format).
AFAIK, they use other means of triggering audio clips and non-destructive
editing stuff that needs to be sample accurate... I don't like that
distinction. *Every* event should be possible to automate with sample accuracy,
or the design has a restriction that will cause trouble sooner or later. Users
find new tricks, and I see no reason forcing them to become hackers and hack
their own plug-ins just to get around that kind of limitations.
Do Mackie and Digidesign have The Ultimate Solution? Is Microsoft The OS
design authority...?
//David
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