On the Synthzone forum they're talking about $5000 (US?). Ouch. Also there is talk of a later entry-level model. OTOH, it's not out of the ballpark for this market; Korg Tritons can be $3400 depending on features.
In another comment I found this link: http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum37/HTML/ 007355. html... and there's a comment there from one of the developers. Apparently, other developers on this project include Rob Buse of SEQ24 (really nice little midi-loop sequencer) and Benno Senoner who we've known on the linux-audio-dev list for many years now. Congratulations guys!
JACK might be more accurately called the linux equivalent to ReWire than "the linux equivalent of ASIO." However, it does offer a similar callback-based development model to ASIO and apple's CoreAudio. But neither of those allow applications to transparently connect to each other the way JACK does.
Yeah, we care about Linux. We care that it doesn't run Pro Tools well (or at all?),
The latter.
(as far as I know) does not support USB output of audio,
This is incorrect. ALSA supports all standards-compliant USB audio and midi devices, and has done so for about a year IIRC.
does not run any quality professional software,
professional != commercial.
At the risk of sounding like a stuck record: http://ardour.sf.net http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden
http
I could go on...
and will not be supported by most major soundcard manufacturers.
ALSA supports RME, M-audio, and recently the Echo line (layla, gina, etc). That's prety good already, and support is only growing.
1. Drivers for at least one professional audio card need to be written for linux. I would expect to see multi-channel recording, midi, and ASIO 2.0 drivers at the very least.
You're behind the times. ALSA has drivers for the RME cards and for ICE1712-based cards (including M-audio Delta and many others). This has been true for at least a couple years, I don't remember the exact timeline. I use a Delta 66, it works beatifully. With a properly set up system, latency meets or beats any Windows / ASIO platform.
2. Applications like Cubase, WaveLab, Sonar, and Reaktor need to become available for linux.
It remains to be seen whether any of the existing commercial vendors will release linux ports. However, check out ardour.sf.net (currently beta) for an example of the future of open-source audio software. Other examples include Rosegarden 4 and more soft synths than you can shake a midi cable at. The infrastructure for a complete music workstation - alsa & alsa sequencer API, JACK, LADCCA, LADSPA - is now very good and still improving rapidly.
This is misleading and inaccurate. ALSA does not cause "random crashes of the machine if you have an onboard sound card."
There have been some buggy chipsets that can lead to lockups without some driver workarounds. I have one in my laptop - a NeoMagic 256 A/V (ugh). Takashi Iwai of the ALSA project invested a great deal of time in responding to my problem reports and fixed the problems I was having with that chip.
If you're having problems with ALSA and lockups, it's specific to your soundcard. Try a more recent version of ALSA, and if it's still broken,contact the developers. They want to fix it, but they don't have access to every piece of hardware under the sun.
I don't know if it'll please a finale power-user, but linux users who need notation apps might check out http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/... or some of the other stuff listed at http://sound.condorow.net/notation.html
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On the Synthzone forum they're talking about $5000 (US?). Ouch. Also there is talk of a later entry-level model. OTOH, it's not out of the ballpark for this market; Korg Tritons can be $3400 depending on features.
In another comment I found this link:/ 007355. html ... and there's a comment there from one of the developers. Apparently, other developers on this project include Rob Buse of SEQ24 (really nice little midi-loop sequencer) and Benno Senoner who we've known on the linux-audio-dev list for many years now. Congratulations guys!
http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum37/HTML
JACK might be more accurately called the linux equivalent to ReWire than "the linux equivalent of ASIO." However, it does offer a similar callback-based development model to ASIO and apple's CoreAudio. But neither of those allow applications to transparently connect to each other the way JACK does.
Yeah, we care about Linux. We care that it doesn't run Pro Tools well (or at all?),
The latter.
(as far as I know) does not support USB output of audio,
This is incorrect. ALSA supports all standards-compliant USB audio and midi devices, and has done so for about a year IIRC.
does not run any quality professional software,
professional != commercial. At the risk of sounding like a stuck record: http://ardour.sf.net http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden http I could go on...
and will not be supported by most major soundcard manufacturers.
ALSA supports RME, M-audio, and recently the Echo line (layla, gina, etc). That's prety good already, and support is only growing.
You're behind the times. ALSA has drivers for the RME cards and for ICE1712-based cards (including M-audio Delta and many others). This has been true for at least a couple years, I don't remember the exact timeline. I use a Delta 66, it works beatifully. With a properly set up system, latency meets or beats any Windows / ASIO platform.
2. Applications like Cubase, WaveLab, Sonar, and Reaktor need to become available for linux.
It remains to be seen whether any of the existing commercial vendors will release linux ports. However, check out ardour.sf.net (currently beta) for an example of the future of open-source audio software. Other examples include Rosegarden 4 and more soft synths than you can shake a midi cable at. The infrastructure for a complete music workstation - alsa & alsa sequencer API, JACK, LADCCA, LADSPA - is now very good and still improving rapidly.
Ah yes, PnP will solve everything.
Sure works great on Windows. Never had any problems with it there.
This is misleading and inaccurate.
ALSA does not cause "random crashes of the
machine if you have an onboard sound card."
There have been some buggy chipsets that
can lead to lockups without some driver
workarounds. I have one in my laptop - a NeoMagic 256 A/V (ugh). Takashi Iwai of the ALSA project
invested a great deal of time in responding to
my problem reports and fixed the problems I was
having with that chip.
If you're having problems with ALSA and lockups, it's specific to your soundcard. Try a more recent version of ALSA, and if it's still broken,contact the developers. They want to fix it, but they don't have access to every piece of hardware under the sun.
--PW
I don't know if it'll please a finale power-user, ... or some of the other stuff listed
but linux users who need notation apps might
check out http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/
at http://sound.condorow.net/notation.html