On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:52 PM, marius schebella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Now, after more than 2.5 years of development and almost one year of a > graphical user interface, nobody tried to use nova, despite a talk on the > Linux Audio Conference 2007 in Berlin. Some people offered their help in the > development, but unfortunately nobody found the time to really contribute to > the source code. I am not completely sure, what is the reason for that, but > my guess is that most people, who are competent software developers are busy > with other pro jects and thus do not find the time to contribute to other > pro jects than their own."
this thread is some weeks old, but i think still relevant. i installed nova, but had the impression, that it is not meant to be used by anyone else than developers. first it's hard to install. i think there should be binaries for osx (and windows?) and a source package for linux that compiles out of the box. then i found the GUI not intuitive at all, but maybe it's just the missing documentation / tutorials / examples. question is, why do you want to use Nova, when there is Pd and Max/MSP? both are easier to install, have a bigger community, documentation and many externals. i don't want to say that Nova is useless, it's just very very hard to compete with Pd and Max, especially when it's not obvious in which way Nova is better. where are there strong points, what are weaknesses that have to be improved? i'm using Pd mostly for multichannel mixing of audio sources, but i hate Pd because of it's instability and weird bugs. max/msp is not an option, because it's not available for linux and i like open source. supercollider is cool, but has a steep learning curve and lacks a cross-platform GUI. at the moment i'm using ChucK, but you can't compile it for 64bit linux and efficiency is not the biggest strength of ChucK. an easy to install, cross-platform (osx / linux) and stable Nova, would be very appealing, especially if it had support for Faust, LADSPA, Audio Units and/or VST (in that order). oli _______________________________________________ nova-dev mailing list [email protected] http://klingt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nova-dev http://tim.klingt.org/nova
