On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 12:25 -0500, Darren Landrum wrote:
> I thought we were all on the same side?
There might be tendencies, but it's not one side.
> * Ardour looks, behaves, and has almost the exact same feature set as it
> did two years ago. (Nobody in the commercial world is still using a
> 32-bit mixing engine, not even Pro-Tools.)
You haven't looked closely enough. What's wrong with 32 bit floating
point or Ardour's "mixing engine"?
> You can go ahead and tell me to leave if I don't like it, but the truth
> is, I like the spirit of the Free Software world, and if I feel I can
> contribute something worthwhile, then I will. It's just too bad that we
> can't seem to work together on some issues.
Some do work together on some issues. Not everyone's pulling in the same
direction. Never will.
> I came to here from Reaper, hoping to have seen the whole idea of audio
> production on Linux advance. And it has, to a point, but now you're at a
> crossroads: Do you want an elite club, or do you want to see the world
> of Linux audio spread far and wide?
There's no single we, not even one road.
> If Justin doesn't want to implement LV2 in Reaper, that's his choice.
No one claimed different.
> So the
> choice becomes, do you want LV2 to stay elite, or do you want an
> industry standard?
Industry standard? Call it that if Steinberg and Apple adopt it ;)
> Open source doesn't do anybody any good if nobody wants to use it.
See, it's rather that some don't want to use anything else.
> As for me, my interest is in DSP and coding plug-ins. I got started
> playing around in Reaper's Jesusonic. Now I want to grow my skills in a
> useful direction. Is that going to be LV2, or VST3? I wish I knew.
Think about who you would want to be able to use your plugins under
which circumstances.
-- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-devReceived on Wed Jan 23 04:15:13 2008
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