[desktop-discuss] Ardour 2.x for Solaris: a digital

[Gary Gendel]

> 
> Ken:
> 
> Ardour does look promising.
> 
> The main issue I notice about ardour is that it
> depends on Jack
> currently.  It is possible to hack a Solaris system
> to sort of
> work with Jack via the SFEjack package at
> spec-files-extra, but
> it would probably be necessary to get this working
> with OSS or
> SunAudio devices directly if we wanted to seriously
> suggest
> people use this on Solaris.
> 
> I'd say most Solaris users would more seriously
> consider using
> audacity or jokosher (though jokosher is less mature)
> since these
> programs already support OSS to a greater degree.

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.

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.

Gary
 
 
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