On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 11:21:16 UTC, Andy Smith wrote:
Going after industry heavyweights like Ableton, Bitwig, (Apple even!) is a pretty daunting prospect. I wouldn't want to discourage anyone but it will be no mean feat to produce something that people genuinely prefer using to these tools.
Well, Abelton Live is quite limited when it comes to sample processing. If you stick to non-real time sample processing then it is quite possible to create a solid application within a reasonable timeframe.
As an example, a fellow norwegian, Øyvind Hammer, created a mixing program (distributed so that it could run on multiple computers) in the 90s for X11:
http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/mix-macOSX/
