"I think that if WE started doing seme petition writing and started some moving and shaking, how could they not listen."
Because there's nothing to listen to.
No one who makes or effects policy cares about your "petitions". They only care about your money. And the only way to be enfranchised is by withholding that money.
Not that voting really means anything any more anyway, with both parties converged on a slightly fuzzy dot far to the right of center.
My favorite moment of political naivete from the original poster had to be this, however:
"How can we fight this? Write letters to the companies saying we won't buy their products because of their undue influence? You think the politicians will actually listen if we write them instead?"
You think the companies will listen any more than the corporations will?
Writing letters stating that you won't buy products doesn't mean a thing if you're at CompUSA tomorrow continuing to buy the products. NO ONE CARES about your letters. They only care about your money. And until you can find a way to actually release yourselves from the corporate teat, you will have no voice.
No voice. None.
There is no war on terror. There is no "government by the people, for the people." There are no elections. There is no "Homeland Security."
I spent two months in Germany this summer and my phone never had less than a full-strength signal.
Ever.
Train tunnels, boonies - made no difference. Every call worked perfectly, everytime.
I don't know anything about cel phone tech, but if US providers want to get it right, they simply need to do what they're doing in Europe. Because it just works. Period.
" the vast majority of Mac users, including me, are interested in functionality, efficiency, etc."
Then you're not the kind of person I'm talking about.
"The Mac fails to inspire that kind of fanatic loyalty in 99 44/100 % of Mac users -- but Windows fails inspire that kind of fanatic loyalty in 100% of PC users. Think about that for a while."
Ok, after thinking about it for a while, I've realized that it proves my point. There's no fanatic loyalty for Craftsman tools. Or Cuisinart. Or Polaroids. These things are TOOLS, and their users, numerous as they may be, view them as such.
The point is - the culture of Mac zealotry is not a culture about Macs. It's a meta-culture - a culture about itself.
I find it charming that my post, originally marked as +2 interesting, is now marked as 0 troll, when it's clearly not a trolling post at all.
I'm certainly not talking about ALL Mac users, or even MOST Mac users (although perhaps I didn't make that clear.) I'm talking about the zealots and evangelists.
Look, Joe Sixpack is just a computer user. He/She's using whatever's on his desk, and the functionality of any system that just checks email and writes Office documents is basically identical. That guy could care less.
I'm talking about the folks who do things like the guy in this article - build little shrines and museums.
THAT's not about computing. It's about community. And this was my original point.
I used to think Macs and their users were just sort of silly, but after more and more articles like this I think I'm starting to understand the mindset a little better. It's not really about using a computer any more than, for example, driving a Volkswagen Bug is about driving a car. Issues like functionality, efficiency, etc. are completely secondary to issues like sense of community, warm fuzziness, etc. Do you think the average Bug driver would scrap their car if the gas mileage was worse than an SUV? It's not about mileage - it's about round. Do you think the average Mac zealot cares that OSX.2 is slow? It's not about speed - it's about blue.
This isn't really a dis, although I'll admit it's a world I don't begin to understand.
If they really want this to compete with the notebook market, why is it so underpowered and so expensive?
I can imagine buying one if it was roughly the cost of a comparable laptop. But it's not.
That, plus the fact that the three hour battery life makes it useless for the one market where it could be ideal - students - , means that this is going nowhere.
"What exactly have the media-machine/big corporations/bad government/big brother/iluminati/blah won?"
They've won your unquestioning trust. They've won the right to tell you anything they want and have you believe it. The media is owned. You think you hear ANY news that isn't filtered propaganda?
The first article mentions the threat of function creep - the possibility that the technology will EVENTUALLY be used for purposes besides the one that it was initially designed for. What it fails to mention, however, is that airport security has almost nothing to do with this project. It's ALL about building a huge, commercially-mineable information database filled entirely with people who aren't even a little bit of a threat. Do you really believe that hi-jackers board planes using legit ID that leaves a paper trail right into their DMV records and credit reports? Absurd. The only people that this system will "catch" are Joe Average and his family. Think of it as a great big grocery-store scan card system disguised as a security precaution. This, and everything else in America right now, doesn't have a damn thing to do with security or terrorism prevention. It has to do with manufacturing more consent and getting people to march in tighter formation so that they don't spend any time thinking about how little their rights mean to the people in charge. The fact that people are even talking about it as if it has only the POTENTIAL for abuse just shows that the media machine and their corporate/government handlers have already won.
"There's a reason why vinyl was discontinued, folks."
Vinyl wasn't discontinued. It's just not the dominant medium anymore. There are plenty of labels that still make vinyl, particularly in the dance music genres.
I immediately say "I need to change my phone number." It seems to be something that Claire can't handle, so it puts me through to a rep quickly (well, relatively. I still wait on hold forever.)
Sprint PCS is a disaster - by far the worst customer service I've ever experienced. It's almost like a parody - I expect to find out that I'm on Candid Camera every time I call.
...because new records/movies will continue to be made. Valenti/Rosen/et all know this, which is why everything they have to say is pure hot air. My digital audio gear is high end, but that's because I make music. If I needed to, however, I could copy the hell out of everything. Furthermore, I'll be able to do this for the rest of my life, because no manufacturer of high-end audio gear will ever manufacture that gear with copy protection. Media gets copied as it's being created. And as long as there are tools that can copy it at that stage, those same tools will be able to copy it at other stages as well.
I just saw Hawtin and Aquaviva do a Final Scratch seminar at the Music and Machine conference in Berlin a few weeks ago.
I assure you, the latency is as good as vinyl. The FS records are stripped with a proprietary time-code which is unbelievaly accurate. It's good enough that all the standard vinyl tricks work perfectly - power-downs, scratching, etc.
It's as good as anything your imagination can think up. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
" I also haven't mentioned the idiocy of using MP3s over a commercial grade sound system."
You might want to discuss this with folks like Richie Hawtin, John Aquaviva, Surgeon, and many other of the world's top DJs. These folks have been spinning mp3s with Final Scratch for about a year now, and they're all considerably wealthier, more successful, and more talented than you.
A properly encoded mp3 can fool almost anyone on almost any system - ESPECIALLY a huge, bottom-heavy club PA. Please don't embarrass yourself further by continuing to propagate these silly stories about mp3's lack of fidelity.
Because if it's good enough for Richie Hawtin, it's good enough for you. Period.
"The good stuff, like Cubase and Cakewalk, is unlikely to ever happen on Linux I think. Mainly because all the good audio software engineers are happily employed by the likes of steinberg, emagic, digidesign, apple etc."
While I'm afraid you might be right, you might also be interested to know that Nuendo (Steinberg's flagship high-end audio editing app) is coded on *nix boxes. There's no PORT for *nix OSes, of course, but to do so should be trivial since that's where the app is written.
I've talked to them about this and they're completely uninterested in making a Linux version. No market, they claim. They're right of course. But there's no market because there's no apps. And there's no apps because there's no market.
What's the solution? Keep stuff free for a while, stop releasing things before they're done/work (Ardour), and stress the importance of stability.
There's ONE serious professional audio app right now and it's marketed at the one market that can't afford to not be stable 100% of the time: DJs.
I initially posted this as a reply to someone else's post, but it looks like enough people are curious about her that I thought I'd give this it's own thread.
Synopsis: I think she's fantastic. She's currently the only thing that gets bumper sticker space on my car.
Meshell has three prior studio albums to her credit, all on Maverick.
Her debut release, "Plantation Lullabies" is a mostly funk/hip-hop crossover album, featuring her playing bass on most of the tracks in addition to singing. She is, without a doubt, one of the most solid funk bass players that no one has ever heard of. Prior to this release, she cut her teeth playing bass in the DC area for such progressive jazz luminaries as Steve Coleman.
Her second record, "Peace Beyond Passion" is more of the same, although many fans were a bit put-off by the heavy spiritual bent to some of the tracks. The album is seen as a bit preachy by some.
Her third album, "Bitter", is a very different animal. Somewhat less of a funk album, most of these tracks are slower, more organic, and feature primarily live musicians and less programming.
Several things to consider: -the mp3.com song is a REMIX. Those of you judging her by this track are missing the point entirely. -like her or don't like her, but be wise enough to recognize that she most definitely is NOT part of the "sound-alike" herd that the major labels have been shoving down our throats for the last few years. As a writer (and more importantly a PLAYER - you really need to hear her play bass) she's already worlds beyond the rest of the pop crowd.
But to really appreciate her, you need to see a live show. For her last three tours she's assembled one of the most ridiculous bands I've ever seen on any stage in any genre. Her drummer of choice, Oliver Gene Lake, is one of those skilled funk drummers on the planet. Her live shows are consistently some of the best musical experiences I've ever had, and her small crowd base means that she always plays intimate club venues.
If you like funk, you owe it to yourself to check out Meshell. She's one of a kind.
Meshell has three prior studio albums to her credit, all on Maverick.
Her debut release, "Plantation Lullabies" is a mostly funk/hip-hop crossover album, featuring her playing bass on most of the tracks in addition to singing. She is, without a doubt, one of the most solid funk bass players that no one has ever heard of. Prior to this release, she cut her teeth playing bass in the DC area for such progressive jazz luminaries as Steve Coleman.
Her second record, "Peace Beyond Passion" is more of the same, although many fans were a bit put-off by the heavy spiritual bent to some of the tracks. The album is seen as a bit preachy by some.
Her third album, "Bitter", is a very different animal. Somewhat less of a funk album, most of these tracks are slower, more organic, and feature primarily live musicians and less programming.
Several things to consider: -the mp3.com song is a REMIX. Those of you judging her by this track are missing the point entirely. -like her or don't like her, but be wise enough to recognize that she most definitely is NOT part of the "sound-alike" herd that the major labels have been shoving down our throats for the last few years. As a writer (and more importantly a PLAYER - you really need to hear her play bass) she's already worlds beyond the rest of the pop crowd.
But to really appreciate her, you need to see a live show. For her last three tours she's assembled one of the most ridiculous bands I've ever seen on any stage in any genre. Her drummer of choice, Oliver Gene Lake, is one of those skilled funk drummers on the planet. Her live shows are consistently some of the best musical experiences I've ever had, and her small crowd base means that she always plays intimate club venues.
If you like funk, you owe it to yourself to check out Meshell. She's one of a kind.
Virus = virtual analog using (I believe) generic Motorola DSPs.
Nord Lead = virtual analog using (I believe) generic Motorola DSPs.
Triton = propietary, but still virtual analog (The MOSS card). Or, a simple 2-sample playback engine with some nice modulation options. You can build this in Reaktor in about an hour.
So, what you're saying is that software running on Motorola DSPs is somehow better than software running on my AMD? Because that's all those hardware boxes are. If you were making your point using, for example, a Minimoog, a Prophet 5, and a Buchla, then you might be on to something.
But software synths can indeed beat modern hardware synths because they're basically doing exactly the same thing. The difference is simply that the software models are a tenth the price and don't have ridiculous 4 meg memory caps.
If you think Reason isn't powerful, then you simply don't know how to use it very well.
Luckily for me, and plenty of other people who are actually working professionally as electronic music producers, Reason exists as a simple, highly configurable environment for sound design and composition. Furthermore, if you want to use it in conjunction with apps like Reaktor, just use the ReWire protocol to fly the audio and midi data into the sequencer of your choice (Cubase, Logic, Nuendo) and you can use the two side-by-side with sample accurate sync.
I love the "Reason is a toy" mentality. I really think that it's just GUI-prejudice - if an app or an environment looks to clean and is too easy to use, it must be junk.
No matter. My last 2 12"s and my upcoming full-length were all made primarily in Reason. The remixes that I've been doing with other people on my label have been greatly simplified by flying Reason files back and forth over the net, because plenty of them are using it as well.
Right, but every time I look into this stuff I always see the same key phrases:
"in development"
"plan to release soon"
Meanwhile, apps like Cubase are on version 5.x and going strong. The Rewire protocol is on version 2. VSTi and DXi software synthesis is created FLAWLESS emulations of commercial historical synthesizers.
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"Money or not, they still need votes to get elected"
Do you really believe that "one person, one vote" is how the American political system actually works?
To paraphrase Stalin: "He who votes decides nothing. He who counts the votes decides everything."
And the votes are counted by corporations.
"I think that if WE started doing seme petition writing and started some moving and shaking, how could they not listen."
Because there's nothing to listen to.
No one who makes or effects policy cares about your "petitions". They only care about your money. And the only way to be enfranchised is by withholding that money.
Until you do so, you are invisible.
"You think the companies will listen any more than the corporations will?"
doesn't make any sense. Replace "corporations" with "government" for a much more logical sentence.
Not that voting really means anything any more anyway, with both parties converged on a slightly fuzzy dot far to the right of center.
My favorite moment of political naivete from the original poster had to be this, however:
"How can we fight this? Write letters to the companies saying we won't buy their products because of their undue influence? You think the politicians will actually listen if we write them instead?"
You think the companies will listen any more than the corporations will?
Writing letters stating that you won't buy products doesn't mean a thing if you're at CompUSA tomorrow continuing to buy the products. NO ONE CARES about your letters. They only care about your money. And until you can find a way to actually release yourselves from the corporate teat, you will have no voice.
No voice. None.
There is no war on terror. There is no "government by the people, for the people." There are no elections. There is no "Homeland Security."
There is only money.
I spent two months in Germany this summer and my phone never had less than a full-strength signal.
Ever.
Train tunnels, boonies - made no difference. Every call worked perfectly, everytime.
I don't know anything about cel phone tech, but if US providers want to get it right, they simply need to do what they're doing in Europe. Because it just works. Period.
" the vast majority of Mac users, including me, are interested in functionality, efficiency, etc."
Then you're not the kind of person I'm talking about.
"The Mac fails to inspire that kind of fanatic loyalty in 99 44/100 % of Mac users -- but Windows fails inspire that kind of fanatic loyalty in 100% of PC users. Think about that for a while."
Ok, after thinking about it for a while, I've realized that it proves my point.
There's no fanatic loyalty for Craftsman tools. Or Cuisinart. Or Polaroids. These things are TOOLS, and their users, numerous as they may be, view them as such.
The point is - the culture of Mac zealotry is not a culture about Macs. It's a meta-culture - a culture about itself.
I find it charming that my post, originally marked as +2 interesting, is now marked as 0 troll, when it's clearly not a trolling post at all.
I'm certainly not talking about ALL Mac users, or even MOST Mac users (although perhaps I didn't make that clear.) I'm talking about the zealots and evangelists.
Look, Joe Sixpack is just a computer user. He/She's using whatever's on his desk, and the functionality of any system that just checks email and writes Office documents is basically identical. That guy could care less.
I'm talking about the folks who do things like the guy in this article - build little shrines and museums.
THAT's not about computing. It's about community. And this was my original point.
I used to think Macs and their users were just sort of silly, but after more and more articles like this I think I'm starting to understand the mindset a little better.
It's not really about using a computer any more than, for example, driving a Volkswagen Bug is about driving a car. Issues like functionality, efficiency, etc. are completely secondary to issues like sense of community, warm fuzziness, etc.
Do you think the average Bug driver would scrap their car if the gas mileage was worse than an SUV? It's not about mileage - it's about round.
Do you think the average Mac zealot cares that OSX.2 is slow? It's not about speed - it's about blue.
This isn't really a dis, although I'll admit it's a world I don't begin to understand.
If they really want this to compete with the notebook market, why is it so underpowered and so expensive?
I can imagine buying one if it was roughly the cost of a comparable laptop. But it's not.
That, plus the fact that the three hour battery life makes it useless for the one market where it could be ideal - students - , means that this is going nowhere.
My. $.03
"What exactly have the media-machine/big corporations/bad government/big brother/iluminati/blah won?"
They've won your unquestioning trust. They've won the right to tell you anything they want and have you believe it.
The media is owned. You think you hear ANY news that isn't filtered propaganda?
"Do you really believe that hi-jackers board planes using legit ID that leaves a paper trail right into their DMV records and credit reports? Absurd.
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Well, the last ones did."
Really? Then why are some of them still alive?
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http://news.ind
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/w
http://www.mujahideen.fsnet.co.uk/wtc/wtc
The first article mentions the threat of function creep - the possibility that the technology will EVENTUALLY be used for purposes besides the one that it was initially designed for.
What it fails to mention, however, is that airport security has almost nothing to do with this project. It's ALL about building a huge, commercially-mineable information database filled entirely with people who aren't even a little bit of a threat.
Do you really believe that hi-jackers board planes using legit ID that leaves a paper trail right into their DMV records and credit reports? Absurd.
The only people that this system will "catch" are Joe Average and his family. Think of it as a great big grocery-store scan card system disguised as a security precaution.
This, and everything else in America right now, doesn't have a damn thing to do with security or terrorism prevention. It has to do with manufacturing more consent and getting people to march in tighter formation so that they don't spend any time thinking about how little their rights mean to the people in charge.
The fact that people are even talking about it as if it has only the POTENTIAL for abuse just shows that the media machine and their corporate/government handlers have already won.
"There's a reason why vinyl was discontinued, folks."
Vinyl wasn't discontinued. It's just not the dominant medium anymore. There are plenty of labels that still make vinyl, particularly in the dance music genres.
I immediately say "I need to change my phone number." It seems to be something that Claire can't handle, so it puts me through to a rep quickly (well, relatively. I still wait on hold forever.)
Sprint PCS is a disaster - by far the worst customer service I've ever experienced. It's almost like a parody - I expect to find out that I'm on Candid Camera every time I call.
...because new records/movies will continue to be made. Valenti/Rosen/et all know this, which is why everything they have to say is pure hot air.
My digital audio gear is high end, but that's because I make music. If I needed to, however, I could copy the hell out of everything. Furthermore, I'll be able to do this for the rest of my life, because no manufacturer of high-end audio gear will ever manufacture that gear with copy protection.
Media gets copied as it's being created. And as long as there are tools that can copy it at that stage, those same tools will be able to copy it at other stages as well.
I just saw Hawtin and Aquaviva do a Final Scratch seminar at the Music and Machine conference in Berlin a few weeks ago.
I assure you, the latency is as good as vinyl. The FS records are stripped with a proprietary time-code which is unbelievaly accurate. It's good enough that all the standard vinyl tricks work perfectly - power-downs, scratching, etc.
It's as good as anything your imagination can think up. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
" I also haven't mentioned the idiocy of using MP3s over a commercial grade sound system."
You might want to discuss this with folks like Richie Hawtin, John Aquaviva, Surgeon, and many other of the world's top DJs. These folks have been spinning mp3s with Final Scratch for about a year now, and they're all considerably wealthier, more successful, and more talented than you.
A properly encoded mp3 can fool almost anyone on almost any system - ESPECIALLY a huge, bottom-heavy club PA. Please don't embarrass yourself further by continuing to propagate these silly stories about mp3's lack of fidelity.
Because if it's good enough for Richie Hawtin, it's good enough for you. Period.
"The good stuff, like Cubase and Cakewalk, is unlikely to ever happen on Linux I think. Mainly because all the good audio software engineers are happily employed by the likes of steinberg, emagic, digidesign, apple etc."
While I'm afraid you might be right, you might also be interested to know that Nuendo (Steinberg's flagship high-end audio editing app) is coded on *nix boxes. There's no PORT for *nix OSes, of course, but to do so should be trivial since that's where the app is written.
I've talked to them about this and they're completely uninterested in making a Linux version. No market, they claim.
They're right of course. But there's no market because there's no apps. And there's no apps because there's no market.
What's the solution? Keep stuff free for a while, stop releasing things before they're done/work (Ardour), and stress the importance of stability.
There's ONE serious professional audio app right now and it's marketed at the one market that can't afford to not be stable 100% of the time: DJs.
It's called Final Scratch. Check it out.
I initially posted this as a reply to someone else's post, but it looks like enough people are curious about her that I thought I'd give this it's own thread.
Synopsis: I think she's fantastic. She's currently the only thing that gets bumper sticker space on my car.
Meshell has three prior studio albums to her credit, all on Maverick.
Her debut release, "Plantation Lullabies" is a mostly funk/hip-hop crossover album, featuring her playing bass on most of the tracks in addition to singing. She is, without a doubt, one of the most solid funk bass players that no one has ever heard of. Prior to this release, she cut her teeth playing bass in the DC area for such progressive jazz luminaries as Steve Coleman.
Her second record, "Peace Beyond Passion" is more of the same, although many fans were a bit put-off by the heavy spiritual bent to some of the tracks. The album is seen as a bit preachy by some.
Her third album, "Bitter", is a very different animal. Somewhat less of a funk album, most of these tracks are slower, more organic, and feature primarily live musicians and less programming.
Several things to consider:
-the mp3.com song is a REMIX. Those of you judging her by this track are missing the point entirely.
-like her or don't like her, but be wise enough to recognize that she most definitely is NOT part of the "sound-alike" herd that the major labels have been shoving down our throats for the last few years. As a writer (and more importantly a PLAYER - you really need to hear her play bass) she's already worlds beyond the rest of the pop crowd.
But to really appreciate her, you need to see a live show. For her last three tours she's assembled one of the most ridiculous bands I've ever seen on any stage in any genre. Her drummer of choice, Oliver Gene Lake, is one of those skilled funk drummers on the planet. Her live shows are consistently some of the best musical experiences I've ever had, and her small crowd base means that she always plays intimate club venues.
If you like funk, you owe it to yourself to check out Meshell. She's one of a kind.
Meshell has three prior studio albums to her credit, all on Maverick.
Her debut release, "Plantation Lullabies" is a mostly funk/hip-hop crossover album, featuring her playing bass on most of the tracks in addition to singing. She is, without a doubt, one of the most solid funk bass players that no one has ever heard of. Prior to this release, she cut her teeth playing bass in the DC area for such progressive jazz luminaries as Steve Coleman.
Her second record, "Peace Beyond Passion" is more of the same, although many fans were a bit put-off by the heavy spiritual bent to some of the tracks. The album is seen as a bit preachy by some.
Her third album, "Bitter", is a very different animal. Somewhat less of a funk album, most of these tracks are slower, more organic, and feature primarily live musicians and less programming.
Several things to consider:
-the mp3.com song is a REMIX. Those of you judging her by this track are missing the point entirely.
-like her or don't like her, but be wise enough to recognize that she most definitely is NOT part of the "sound-alike" herd that the major labels have been shoving down our throats for the last few years. As a writer (and more importantly a PLAYER - you really need to hear her play bass) she's already worlds beyond the rest of the pop crowd.
But to really appreciate her, you need to see a live show. For her last three tours she's assembled one of the most ridiculous bands I've ever seen on any stage in any genre. Her drummer of choice, Oliver Gene Lake, is one of those skilled funk drummers on the planet. Her live shows are consistently some of the best musical experiences I've ever had, and her small crowd base means that she always plays intimate club venues.
If you like funk, you owe it to yourself to check out Meshell. She's one of a kind.
Virus = virtual analog using (I believe) generic Motorola DSPs.
Nord Lead = virtual analog using (I believe) generic Motorola DSPs.
Triton = propietary, but still virtual analog (The MOSS card). Or, a simple 2-sample playback engine with some nice modulation options. You can build this in Reaktor in about an hour.
So, what you're saying is that software running on Motorola DSPs is somehow better than software running on my AMD? Because that's all those hardware boxes are. If you were making your point using, for example, a Minimoog, a Prophet 5, and a Buchla, then you might be on to something.
But software synths can indeed beat modern hardware synths because they're basically doing exactly the same thing. The difference is simply that the software models are a tenth the price and don't have ridiculous 4 meg memory caps.
If you think Reason isn't powerful, then you simply don't know how to use it very well.
Luckily for me, and plenty of other people who are actually working professionally as electronic music producers, Reason exists as a simple, highly configurable environment for sound design and composition. Furthermore, if you want to use it in conjunction with apps like Reaktor, just use the ReWire protocol to fly the audio and midi data into the sequencer of your choice (Cubase, Logic, Nuendo) and you can use the two side-by-side with sample accurate sync.
I love the "Reason is a toy" mentality. I really think that it's just GUI-prejudice - if an app or an environment looks to clean and is too easy to use, it must be junk.
No matter. My last 2 12"s and my upcoming full-length were all made primarily in Reason. The remixes that I've been doing with other people on my label have been greatly simplified by flying Reason files back and forth over the net, because plenty of them are using it as well.
"there is no longer any reason to use MS on the desktop."
Sure, provided that all you do is play games and use word processors.
See my post above about professional quality music production.
Right, but every time I look into this stuff I always see the same key phrases:
"in development"
"plan to release soon"
Meanwhile, apps like Cubase are on version 5.x and going strong. The Rewire protocol is on version 2. VSTi and DXi software synthesis is created FLAWLESS emulations of commercial historical synthesizers.
When I can do THIS in Linux, I'll make the move.
Yes, Demudi looks to be the best contender.
But it's simply not ready for prime time yet.