On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:34 AM, cunnilinux himself <cunnilinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > just interested about your POSITIVE motivation (if any). > i'm intended to write about mine own a bit later... ;) Here are my top 3: 1.) Modularity As a user, I can assemble applications in all sorts of different ways, thanks to JACK. As a developer, I can rely on building blocks created by other developers. Excellent libraries like libsndfile, libsamplerate, PortAudio, JACK, Lilv, Suil, and RtMidi make developing Linux audio applications much, much easier. 2.) Low latency audio and low jitter MIDI I can compose music for hours with 1.33 milliseconds of internal latency without xruns. I use external synths to create most of my music, so low-jitter MIDI is an absolute requirement. With Linux, I get peak MIDI jitter around 1.5 milliseconds, which is phenomenal for a USB2 MIDI device sending MIDI to four synthesizers. I don't think there's a better USB MIDI driver on any other operating system. JACK, ALSA, and a realtime kernel make this possible. 3.) Open source If I find a bug in an application I'm working with or a library I'm linking to, I don't have to wait around for a developer to fix the problem. I can fix it myself, and send the fix to the developer. -- Devin Anderson surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/ midisnoop - http://midisnoop.googlecode.com/ psinsights - http://psinsights.googlecode.com/ synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
