On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:41:23PM +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:06:29 Anders Dahnielson wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 20:39, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 20:30:53 Ken Restivo wrote: > > > > OK well that throws a monkey wrench into my plan to convert the studio > > > from > > > > Mac/ProTools to Linux/Ardour. Damn. > > > Maybe you can start by convincing them about Mac/Ardour? > > > I don't really understand why mac-users (especially if they paid premium > > > money > > > for hardware) should switch to Linux where half their hardware isn't > > > supported... Shouldn't ardour (through jackd/portaudio) play perfectly > > > one the > > > digi-stuff? > > Yes. but I think you answered the question yourself in the last sentence. > > I did? I didn't say "Make them buy overpriced proprietary stuff to use it with > free software", I said "If they already happen to have the bad proprietary > stuff, why try to convince them off the full free ensemble where they have to > spend more money on new hardware if they could just do a smooth transition by > switching one component at a time?" Applies both for Mac/ProTool and > Mac/Motu... > > Or is the digi-stuff not usable with apples' portaudio? > This particular Digi gear is already visible in JACK on a Mac. I suppose this is because there is a Mac CoreAudio driver for it, and presumably JACK sits on top of that, and thus can see it. I have not tried running the Digi gear with with Ardour on a Mac, because this particular Mac was too old and fragile to add all the X11 crap I'd need in order to get Ardour to run on it. But I don't see why it wouldn't work. So, to answer your question, someone who has an investment in a Mac and Digi gear can probably run Ardour, and thus leverage their investment in the Digi gear. In my particular situation, I was trying to create a Linux convert. But I guess that's not in the cards right now. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
