On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Louigi Verona <louigi.ver...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Paul! > > You said: > "Many people look at Live and do not realize the sophistication of what > they are doing." > > Can you briefly speak about what kind of things they are doing, just so > that I would know how difficult it is and how realistically can we (not) > expect this to ever appear on Linux - and just to get more educated about > audio software.
no individual feature of live is beyond the capabilities of other software (though they do have very, very good implementations of a few core things like timestretch). nothing going on in live is beyond the capabilities of some of the developers on this list. but ... integrating all those ideas and features into a relatively seamless, highly coherent whole is another matter entirely (as ardour can attest to in a similar fashion). the most important to realize about live is that everything you hear coming out of it has been through a granular resynthesis engine. the notion of "feed this audio to the output" doesn't really exist. instead they have a very sophisticated architecture that is continually, dynamically modifying multiple audio streams in dependent and independent ways. analyse what is going with just one clip/event/region and its all fairly straightforward. now step back and consider the whole picture, and its much more complex and difficult to (a) implement (b) provide nice ways to manipulate. ableton have done both, reasonably well. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev