Gary: > I looked on the sites for audacity and jokosher and I don't see it playing in > the same space as Ardour. Ardour can manipulate control surfaces like Nuendo > and Pro-Tools, which I couldn't find mention of in the other projects. If > Ardour can use the external sound I/O in devices like the Tascam mixers then I > think it can become a winner.
I was thinking more in terms of multi-channel mixing. Yes, you are right that Ardour has some neat features that would be nice to support on Solarisl > So the real question is whether OSS will have the hooks to do the same. If > so, > then I agree with you that OSS should replace the older JACK and ALSA protocols. I'm not sure. I believe OSS does have some MIDI functionality, though I believe it is not going to initially be supported when OSS goes into Solaris Nevada. I'm not really sure, but I think MIDI support is coming later. ALSA and JACK are, at the moment, very Linux specific. You can build packages for these from spec-files-extra, though I'm not sure how well they really work on Solaris. I'm not aware that anybody has even tried out the JACK MIDI support on Solaris. The main advantage of OSS is that there is an active effort, supported by Sun, to port it properly to Solaris. I wouldn't say that OSS is better than ALSA because ALSA is older. ALSA is a competing framework that is, at the moment, favored on many Linux distributions. However, the new OSS 4.0 rewrite will likely increase the competition a bit, especially since they have now made OSS truly freesource. The fact that OSS used to not be free was the main reason that ALSA was created. So, in short, I think MIDI support is an area where Solaris is lacking and it would be good to get more people with an interest in MIDI involved in getting things working. Brian
