On Monday 25 September 2006 19:12, linux-audio-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > One thing that bothers me though, is why are Linux peeps playing with M$ > > apps instead of funneling that energy towards replacements in native > > Linux? > > What a strange thing to say. The majority of the Linux audio software out > there is capable of far more than offering simple feature replacements for > commercial windows applications. Have you even looked into the options? > (http://linux-sound.org/) Rosegarten is almost there. Ardour for all-audio work is very nice once one figures out its interface. Muse is fun is soft-synths are the objective. The new LMMS and others are moving along. One thing, though: Many of us started out in M$ or Macs. A lot of good work is in formats of Cakewalk, Steinberg, Protools, etc. The real move to Linux will require interoperability and this is simply not there. New projects, once I have equvilatent quality hardware with Alsa support ($), can be done quite fine in Linux. All else remains on the "other" partition. While wine-asio (I have also proposed a jack-assio [SIC] which would be native) will enable some apps to try to work with an emulation layer, do not expect realistic (that is real-time) operation. I have only one audio-app which cuts the grade under wine and that is the har-bal demo (no M# code, according to the author, maybe that's why).
