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On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:08:36PM -0500, Craig Beaumont wrote:
> What is Ardour ..and JACK? Do you have some links?

http://ardour.sourceforge.net/ (also links to JACK)

Looks like porting to MacOSX is already well underway. That's what I
mean by it would seem to be a waste of resources for Apple to write 
something of their own in this vein, as opposed to (say) contributing 
some funds and development effort to Ardour instead. It would *very*
much be in their interests to do that, because Linux is unlikely to
ever replace Macs in pro studios, but it *could* replace Windows in
home studios...

> > On the other hand, due to the cost of Macs I would far rather Linux
> > continued to blossom as an audio platform thanks to the likes of JACK
> > and Ardour. Of course as a sequencer platform it still doesn't compete
> > with the ST :)
> 
> But when we say "doesn't compete with the ST", I hope
> you agree that we are being fondly nostalgic,

No, read carefully. I'm talking about Linux specifically, and saying
that Linux does not compete with the ST as a sequencer platform at 
the moment. There are a few sequencers to choose from but they are
not yet of sufficient quality to satisfy me. Let alone good enough 
and flexible enough and with the right modus operandi to tempt me away 
from Notator. 

I have no nostalgic attachment to the ST whatsoever (I didn't own one
until it was already "obsolete" -- I was strictly Acorn as a kid).
I use Notator on the ST because, for my purposes, it is the best option 
available to me Right Now. I am always on the look out for replacements 
because there are certain things that really wind me up about Notator. But 
music is my hobby, it doesn't pay any bills yet and with children there are 
many to pay, so I'm not prepared to spend a large amount of money on some 
crappy Windows software with significantly worse latency than the ST, 
and I don't *have* the even larger amount of money to spend on a Mac. 
Linux is getting there, one day, maybe even soon, I will probably start 
using it alongside Notator in my setup, but I suspect it will be a long 
time before Notator is no longer the hub of my little bedroom studio.

> The technology that produced the ST and Notator has moved...not necessarily
> for the better, but nevertheless...on! Change is inevitable and anything
> that's not moving will eventually be buried in said sands.

Sure, eventually the world will run out of STs. But I've got 2 spares, 
and currently there are plenty to be had off eBay for two a penny. Of
greater concern in the meantime is running out of dongles/Log3s/Unitors,
so we continue to push for NSL to be open sourced. 

To take your metaphor: Those who stay close to the surface of the sand
are the ones who have a perpetual fear of being buried... got to keep
moving, keep upgrading, to stay afloat. Me and my Atari, well, we're
in an underground bunker, watching the shifting sands above our heads 
through a little window, but immune to their effects... until either
(a) I spy a favourable current and decide to leave, or (b) the weight 
of the sand becomes too much and the bunker starts to collapse. I'm
hoping (a) will happen before (b) [the latter ought to be at least
another decade away yet], but I have a little escape plan ready 
just in case...

-- 
It's a Jamm!n thing.

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