You will see that the author of this project (also the author of JACK, probably the most important recent addition to Linux for professional audio work, IMHO) has put a lot of thought into the limitations of similar tools on other OS's, including Protools/Nuendo/Cubase/Logic and some of the audio protocols which have been built around this design concept like VST, ReWire, etc.
So after all of the bitching on this list about making Linux tools _better_ than their MS/Apple counterparts, rather than just reinventing the wheel (see OpenOffice vs MSoffice), it seems a bit hasty to be judging the power of this new app on the basis of its feature-for-feature likeness to other tools.
I hope Ardour will get folks to take another look at Linux for music making. Linux has a very unique (and every growing) toolkit that allows musicians to do things they can't do anywhere else, and Ardour/JACK is an important addition.
So let those linux users whose lack of foresight, commitment to true openess, and apparently overstocked bank accounts to pay for all of this OSX "switching" business go ahead and buy, buy, buy.
My linux PC is still faster and cheaper...and when it's not anymore, I can just spend the $150 on a faster chip and make it so.
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You will see that the author of this project (also the author of JACK, probably the most important recent addition to Linux for professional audio work, IMHO) has put a lot of thought into the limitations of similar tools on other OS's, including Protools/Nuendo/Cubase/Logic and some of the audio protocols which have been built around this design concept like VST, ReWire, etc.
So after all of the bitching on this list about making Linux tools _better_ than their MS/Apple counterparts, rather than just reinventing the wheel (see OpenOffice vs MSoffice), it seems a bit hasty to be judging the power of this new app on the basis of its feature-for-feature likeness to other tools.
I hope Ardour will get folks to take another look at Linux for music making. Linux has a very unique (and every growing) toolkit that allows musicians to do things they can't do anywhere else, and Ardour/JACK is an important addition.
So let those linux users whose lack of foresight, commitment to true openess, and apparently overstocked bank accounts to pay for all of this OSX "switching" business go ahead and buy, buy, buy. My linux PC is still faster and cheaper...and when it's not anymore, I can just spend the $150 on a faster chip and make it so.