Hi, > Why we dont have apps such as Reason, Reaktor, Sonar, Sound Forge, > etc? I dont mean full apps, but at least projects aiming for that kind > of thing.
Because only 2% of the linux audio programmers try to make a living of that. I personally dislike GUI programming, programming soundfx is much more interesting and I usually do that for my personal pleasure. And other people can benfit of that work, too. The programs you mentioned cost a lot of money and their programmers work full time on it. And they have to do those nice GUI's if they want to sell it. Having a shiny metal interface doesn't mean their sound better, anyway. If I compare reactor with glame, I'd say that glame & ladsa plugins provides the better guitar fx box with less latency. They charge 200 Euro for it... Ok, we still don't have MIDI, hm > Do we lack good APIs? Alsa MIDI api is the best I have seen for it's No,l but good documentation for it. Still there's lot missing in the ALSA docu. > kind. Also, sould linux apps really take this windows approach of > making huge bloated interfaces with lots of eye candy, or should we You just have to find someone who likes GUI programming... > try to improve on making our apps intercommunicate between eachother, > while still giving some importance to ease of use? > Sure, that's what jack is all about. Cheers, Alex
