When I got into acoustic drums, I ended up with an audio interface that is only useful on Windows or OS-X. I'm not paying what they want for a Mac, and that is how I came to be running Windows for audio recording.
Since I finally had to break down and buy a Windows machine, I have been working on a side project with Richard Bown to take Rosegarden cross-platform. The objective is a Rosegarden that can compile and run usefully on Linux, Windows, and hopefully OS-X, using the same codebase for all platforms, and with centrally managed, regular releases. After some initial work that was good for other platforms at the expense of being too destructive to Linux, I am taking a hard look at switching from ALSA to RtMidi, which Richard reports as "just about" recording and playing MIDI in the original Windows fork. I haven't begun on any of this yet, but it does look encouraging. RtMidi can use JACK MIDI or ALSA, in that order, which addresses all of the users who wish we had JACK MIDI support. The plan I am currently sketching out is to switch Rosegarden over to RtMidi on Linux, get that working, and then the resulting Rosegarden will be easier to port to other platforms. This removes the biggest dependency that is absolutely Linux-specific. Before I really dive into pulling all of this together, I thought it would be appropriate to see how both the developer and user communities feel about all this. In the meantime, I'm off to see the new Star Trek movie in IMAX. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarden-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
