On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Patrick Shirkey<pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user