On Monday 10 June 2002 18.52, Alexander Ehlert wrote: > Hi, > > > Why we dont have apps such as Reason, Reaktor, Sonar, Sound > > Forge, etc? I dont mean full apps, but at least projects aiming > > for that kind of thing. > > Because only 2% of the linux audio programmers try to make a living > of that. > I personally dislike GUI programming, programming soundfx is much > more interesting and I usually do that for my personal pleasure. > And other people > can benfit of that work, too. The programs you mentioned cost a lot > of money and > their programmers work full time on it. And they have to do those > nice GUI's if they > want to sell it.
Free/Open Source hackers also have to "sell" their work to be truly successful. Nice user interfaces attract users - and around here, many users like to hack their favourite tools if they can. There is a difference, but it's not all that big. > Having a shiny metal interface doesn't mean their > sound better, anyway. Right, but some users would say that nice GUIs are more inspiring to work with... [...] > > kind. Also, sould linux apps really take this windows approach of > > making huge bloated interfaces with lots of eye candy, or should > > we > > You just have to find someone who likes GUI programming... ...and wants to hack a *really* complex one for a music application. You also need to find a good GUI designer, unless you're lucky enough to find someone that can do both. I'm quite sure it's not remotely as easy as you suggest. //David .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | | A Free/Open Source Plugin API for Professional Multimedia | `---------------------------> http://www.linuxdj.com/maia/ -' .- David Olofson -------------------------------------------. | Audio Hacker - Open Source Advocate - Singer - Songwriter | `-------------------------------------> http://olofson.net -'
