On Wednesday 23 December 2009 11:12 am, Er wrote: > Recently (this month actually) a brand new software was released called > Ladish (http://ladish.org/). It's quite simple : it allow people to > save and restore jack's apps and connections. That stuff made me > believe that the future of linux's music will lay in many small apps > working in synergy. It's the best way to achieves purposes of high > performances and customisation.
I'm not sure how turning all Linux audio apps into essentially plugins for one overarching session manager program would be any better performance- wise than having one big monolithic app with a wide-ranging set of plugins, some of which are run as separate processes which enables SMP performance gains. Also, Ladish failed to gain a lot of support when it was called LASH, so I'm not sure what's going to make software developers want to support it this time. But maybe LMMS could be a Ladish host and control all those other programs someday, for those who want to use them. I think LMMS' power is in its organizational simplicity, and running individual programs is just never going to be as simple as picking plugins from a tree interface. I love having zynaddsubfx available as a "plugin" in LMMS, and would love to be able to use other Linux sound generation programs that way without having to manually start them up, start up Jack, start up a Jack mapper, connect everything, and hope it actually makes some sound when I play some notes. Even if LASH/Ladish would do it automatically for me after the first time, that first time is enough of a pain that I never finished a song under Linux until I discovered LMMS. Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
