Mark Knecht wrote: >On 10/23/05, Ken <renueden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>seems a little emvarrissing that all the talented linux programmers are >>concentrating their efforts on running M$ based plugins. should be a >>slew of dssi's by now, or maybe a reaktor killer... >> >> >> > >Personally I don't see it this way at all, at least form a user's >point of view. I write music. I want sounds. I use whatever tools are >available to me to do it. If I have Reaktor, which I do, but I don't >want to run it on Win XP for either stability or licensing reasons, >then running it Linux is a sensible thing to look into. When Dave, >myself and others discuss this topic I don't think that any of us are >speaking as developers. I'm certainly not one. > >If the folks writing Wine are doing the tasks they want to accomplish >then we are doing them a service in testing Wine. (Whether through >xfst or Wine/Savihost/etc.) I am served if I can run Reaktor. > >I have little patience for the idea of *waiting* for first 'a Reaktor >Killer' and then later a set of instruments programmed into that >killer that allow me the breadth and depth of sound I get from Reaktor >today. I'll be happy to use them if and when they appear. A very good >example (IMO) is ZynAddSubFx. Good synth. Very usable. Very limited >preprogrammed libray of sounds for a casual user to start with. >Compared to Reaktor Session, where you start with 100's of interesting >preprogrammed sounds for the cost of $200 I saved at least weeks of >time, most probably months of time over the last few years. > >Just my 2.5 cents, >Mark > > > > good points, thanks for the info.
