imma install it late tonight, give it a few weeks and see what happens...
any other guinea pigs?? _____________________________ quantumb8 UW
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PoppaGeorge Member since Nov 07th 2004 10384 posts
Mon Dec-05-05 11:34 PM
6. "I'm trying to get it working myself" In response to Reply # 2
I don't know about it... There's an assload of dependancies I need to install before I can get it running. I believe I have them all installed, but I can't get it past the Jack configuration, it complains about some bullshit and then shuts down.
a sequencer is only as good as the plug ins you run in them. whenever it supports rtas, vst, or au then I can see myself using it. I wonder if it has the same wave editing power that pro tools does with the tabbing through regions and such. when i heard of this, i almost downloaded it without hesitation but thought about all the small but significant features i would leave behind.
5. "only supports a few plug ins" In response to Reply # 0
a sequencer is only as good as the plug ins you run in them. whenever it supports rtas, vst, or au then I can see myself using it. I wonder if it has the same wave editing power that pro tools does with the tabbing through regions and such. when i heard of this, i almost downloaded it without hesitation but thought about all the small but significant features i would leave behind.
Ardour isn't a sequencer (yet) much like ProTools pre V5.0. It's strictly audio at the moment. In order to get sequencing, you have to use Jack to connect it to an actual sequencing app, like Rosegarden (widely regarded as the best sequencing and audio app under Linux).
This adds an extra layer of complexity to the whole thing.
9. "Complexity or Modularity??" In response to Reply # 8
that is an arguement made in the article which makes a lot of sense.
in the open source community (to a large extent) if someone else has software that does the job, another app doesn't try and duplicate it half-assed, they just encorporate the other project's functionality somehow...
it may make setup and configuration a little more time consuming, but in the end don't we get a better product??? _____________________________ quantumb8 UW
In the case of using Rewire to connect Reason and FL Studio to Cubase or ProTools, yes. In the case of using Jack to connect Rosegarden to Ardour, kinda no. Rosegarden already has Jack support and is also an audio app, like Cubase. Now it's redundant. What the folks coding Ardour should have done was incorporate a sequencer directly into the app. They could have integrated the sequencing code from Rosegarden, thus making Ardour a more well rounded app instead of forcing everyone to use a second app for sequencing.
It would be like rewiring Cubase to ProTools, you can do it, but why?
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