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For those who don't know, Jack allows to plug any software, virtual instrument or sound card in/out into any other one almost as simply as it would be on a phys

by smonff 10y ago

For those who don't know, Jack allows to plug any software, virtual instrument or sound card in/out into any other one almost as simply as it would be on a physical mixer. This is also the meaning of Freedom: you are not condemned to follow the editor choices in term of possibilities.

coldtea 10y ago
>This is also the meaning of Freedom: you are not condemned to follow the editor choices in term of possibilities. There's also another meaning of freedom: freedom from having to care of worry about the platform, and being free to create, because you have a thing that "just works". For musicians that's more important than "route everything to everything" (for which there are solutions even for commercial DAWs, e.g. Rewire for those that do care for it). It's all about tradeoffs, but Jack and "freedom to modify DAW code" is pretty down on the list of priorities for 99% of musicians.
- bostand 10y ago
  Why do you think the free/open source stuff don't "just work"? Also, a lot of time using FOSS is a choice we make not because of the price or principals but for convenience. I simply don't want to juggle licenses and dongles between home and studio computers, or for that matter be forced to install licensing software that is more or less a rootkit...