dave wrote:
On 11/08/2013 05:40 AM, Les Cargill wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

Portability is pretty expensive. And given how dissimilar platforms
are, it is of mixed value, IMO.

Very basic functionality is quite different from platform to platform.


You can have a triple boot Notebook if you want. YouTube looks the same
on WIN and *X.


I prefer VMs



People don't generally like to think about implementations when they
don't have to.

Unless the implements are very shiny.



I LIKE SHINY THING! SHINY THING GOOD!


I don't really think we'd have had DAW programs at all had it not been
for Mac and Windows as platforms. Maybe something lire RADAR, but it
wasn't priced to sell. Maybe something like the Amiga, although
it was pretty limited.

There were DAWs before Windows and Mac

Sorta. But now, we have the capability of a New England Digital system
for much less trouble.




Agreed; although it's not clear that the propagation of such systems
would have been ... satisfactory.

The last thing I read about the Linux standards group for audio/
multimedia , they were still designing the basic atoms of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digita...rce_sof tware


The good news is that REAPER runs in Wine...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=linux+daw



--scott



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Les Cargill

dave

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Les Cargill