I guess the advantage of export features is, that it works around software and user errors, when recording within a studio in the box. This is a good thing. I guess it doesn't matter that it is faster, than recording in real-time, at least not for music productions. Sure, to finish a radio report, it's good, if it could be done faster than real-time, but making art shouldn't follow this fast foot approach. IMO making art, just using one tool is boring. If you make an airbrush painting, you need to draw with brushes, too, otherwise it looks uninteresting. If you use a DAW to master music, you could add artistic quality by a real-time recording, when using external gear, too. The reason for this is that diversity is better than inbreeding. I can't imagine something more boring, than "done with Linux only". And when making art, we should not care that much about saving of time. Making music is like having sex, it's better, if it's done in real-time, nobody wants to make love faster than real-time. Résumé Yes, it's good to have an export feature, because it's faster, to finish work, such as a radio report. Yes, it's good to have this feature for music productions, to work around software and user errors. No, it's counter-productive to save time, when making art. No, while it's true that your idea is about adding external virtual software from the same machine to the all-in-one DAW, it still excludes external gear. You quasi could ask, should all software available for Linux audio, also be available as a plug in for a all-in-one DAW. Yes, this would be nice ;) and IMO the better approach for the studio in the box. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
