On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Paul Davis wrote: > >it's been the same with MOTU, some vendors are just ignorant of a > >large potential customer base. > > lets not kid ourselves. there is a *tiny* potential customer base for > the next several years at least, and the existing customer base is > even smaller.
well, there is a large *potential* customer base, once all the other *potential* developments in linux audio are stabilized (just splitting hairs here). ;) > the customer base for audio chipsets in things like laptops and > off-the-shelf desktops is quite a bit larger, but anything that's > actually a serious audio interface has a linux customer base that can > probably be counted in the low hundreds, if that. i seriously doubt that. perhaps it's true for additional companies, as hammerfall is well established in the high-end and m-audio (and terratec) are well established in the low-end for pro cards in linux and unix. i bet they already have thousands of customer each (m-audio states on their website, pamphlets, and box that the delta series works on linux, and hoontech is nice enough to say on their site to use the *cvs* of alsa, though their cards seem to be sub-pro quality). i think it's going to take the alsa api to be stabilized (and perhaps part of the kernel), low-latency to make it into the standard kernel, and then a couple of pro-quality linux audio apps that a linux newbie can install and *use* immediately (like reason - it's rather complicated to master, but so simple to test and see how cool it is immediately, unlike jmax/pd, csound, etc.). my 2 cents, dave _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
