dawhead

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by dawhead 9y ago
Apple might have done OK, but they killed a technical specification that was already present in thousands (millions) of users' devices, and that hundreds of other companies had invested in as the best way forward (technically it remain
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by dawhead 10y ago
In the interest of truth-in-comment-threads, it looks as if 5.1 will be a bug fix release, without the Push 2 support. That will land in 5.2, probably. The majority of the work is done, but I want it more polished before releasing it.
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by dawhead 10y ago
all of the above.
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by dawhead 10y ago
That's actually not true. The "big boys" use tons of plugin synths. Hans Zimmer comes to mind (the entire soundtrack to Nolan's Batman series was done with U-he's Zebra2, which is an amazing synth). What you tend no
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by dawhead 10y ago
Ardour session files are just text files. Scripts used within the session are saved as part of the session file, so that the session can be used on any Ardour installationg, without having to 'get the scripts'. I know of a few Ard
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by dawhead 10y ago
The purely technical aspects of audio on Linux have always been better than Windows and OS X. Linux had lower latency than them more than a decade ago. The user experience is a different story. That's the result of choices made by Linu
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by dawhead 10y ago
I interact regularly with GTK+ developers, and have been a regular contributor to GTK+ on OS X. They don't want our patches - they are very specialized and intended to deal with cases in Ardour that are not really a part of ordinary de
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by dawhead 10y ago
The most common reason is that we ship our own version of the clearlooks theme engine to ensure that we control the appearance of GTK+ widgets, and we load our own GTK2 RC file to define colors etc. for those widgets. This leads to 2 errors
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by dawhead 10y ago
Do you seriously want me to list all the features that Ardour had for 10 years before they showed up in ProTools? This is a recent list of PT user's most-wanted features. http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2
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by dawhead 10y ago
That's all fair and correct. But why is there no Izotope on Linux? People gripe at free software developers for "not providing Izotope", when in reality that software represents years of dedicated R&D, something that most
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by dawhead 10y ago
There is no price "up front" because you get to define the price (the model is taken from Radiohead's release of "In Rainbows", actually). What non-sketchy model do you have for a demo version? We used to make one t
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by dawhead 10y ago
Pianoteq ? U-he ? Distrho? Harrison Consoles ? These are all proprietary plugins for Linux, all of them excellent. PureData is a VERY VERY different program from Reaktor, capable of things not possible in Reaktor, but also with a totally d
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by dawhead 10y ago
Ardour has builtin support for many hardware controllers. Our support for Mackie Control is as good as anything in the proprietary world, ditto for things like the FaderPort. Generic MIDI controllers can have MIDI maps, and we have at least
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by dawhead 10y ago
Every day, there are NEW DAW users who have no plugins. I think you're also not fully informed on the scale of existing plugin development on Linux. Several commercial developers now produce plugins for Linux, and there are some open s
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by dawhead 10y ago
Thanks for digging up that link. I had forgotten I wrote that. Things have been better since it was written, but the project could still really use at least another 1/2 full time developer (it could use 50 more, but hey ...) let alone
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by dawhead 10y ago
Note that because distros build Ardour using their stock GTK+ stack, there are a few issues with their builds that are not present in the bundles from ardour.org. We (ardour.org) do not (and cannot) support distro-built versions of Ardour.
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by dawhead 14y ago
@s_kilk: in random order: Roadmaps: http://tracker.ardour.org/roadmap_page.php http://ardour.org/development/post3.0 MIDI: those Atari apps you're thinking of didn't do audio. General utility: perhaps you need to talk to various people