Hey Dan! "Saving projects is only tricky if you use the modular approach versus instrument plugins hence this isn't really a problem for A3 and qtractor."
True, but since there are very few plugins, most power of Linux Audio today is not in its plugin collection ;) On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Dan MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi LV! > > Nice and interesting write up of your experiences and opinions there. I > agree with most all of it except: > > "Saving projects is still a huge problem. In addition to LADISH we do now > have NSM, the Non-Session Manager, which seems like a workable solution, so > we'll see how this works out in the long run. > LMMS seems to be the only game in town for those who want to save full > projects by just clicking "Save" and not having to install and configure a > "session manager". I must admit, by the way, that I have not followed LMMS > recently." > > Saving projects is only tricky if you use the modular approach versus > instrument plugins hence this isn't really a problem for A3 and qtractor. > Aside from LMMS, MusE and sunvox have a few integrated instruments so they > don't have this problem either (if you stick to the built-in synths for > Muse only - sunvox doesn't handle plugins) and pretty soon MusE should gain > native VST support to further improve this situation. > > Your article has reminded me of my one and only JACK complaint/ feature > (yep - just one!!!) request which I filed a couple of years ago now but is > still to be addressed: > > http://trac.jackaudio.org/ticket/202 > > I'm surprised others haven't been asking for more descriptive 'device > busy' error messages from JACK as for many years this has been my only > issue with JACK - it doesn't start and you don't know what process is > preventing it doing so. Quite often I'll not bother doing the detective > work and just reboot but that is hardly ideal so I think this small > addition would make JACK (and qjackctl) and as a result Linux audio much > more user friendly. > > Your thoughts Mr Davis? > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Louigi Verona <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hey fellas! >> >> Would like to present an article I've written. Mostly wrote it to start a >> conversation and hear what others have to say on the subject. >> >> >> http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=writings&t=linux&a=linux_progress >> >> You can comment here or on my textboard (which does not require >> registration). >> >> >> -- >> Louigi Verona >> http://www.louigiverona.ru/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> >> > -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/
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