Re: [LAU] modular audio apps and control-communication was: off topic

On 09/03/2009 12:32 PM, Chris Wenn wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Paul Davis
> <paul@email-addr-hidden <mailto:paul@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Patrick
> Shirkey<pshirkey@email-addr-hidden
> <mailto:pshirkey@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
> > So I guess they wanted things to be as tightly integrated as
> possible for
> > performance reasons?
>
> i had some extended conversations with one of ableton's founders about
> this, and he talked about it in one of my classes at the TU.
> basically, they wanted to tap into the "max crowd", however you
> interpret that, which they felt that Live currently didn't do. they
> saw/see a lot of skill and cool stuff going on with max that can't be
> done in Live. their idea seems to have been to try to integrate that
> as tightly as possble into Live, so that people who create cool max
> patches can use them as if they were builtin processing objects in
> Live. not "max connected to Live" (which is already possible with
> JACK, and they know it). at present, there is no "distribution" system
> for those patches, but that didn't seemed to be ruled out for the
> future.
>
>
> That's the impression I got from the situation - they recognised that
> a significant portion of the Max userbase were either already using
> Live + Soundflower + Max (or some other kludge) or were interested in
> interoperability.
>
> This market seems pretty tightly pegged to the Apple platform. At
> least here in Oz, Max users tend to pick it up at university, where
> there's pretty high saturation of Apple hardware.

So I guess as it's a market based decision then there is a slim
possibility of AL adding support for jack assuming the market is big
enough. Probalby not for another 5 years at least.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd

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