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From: Murray McDowall <murraymc@...>
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 9:55am 
Subject: re: [GEN] Ardour stabilising  


Neil Johnson <nej22@h...> wrote:

>"Good news for the open source audio recording world! Ardour creator Paul
>Davis has announced a feature-freeze and has set a binary release date for
>the now-famous GPL multitrack audio recording application. 
>http://ardour.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for drawing attention to this new Neil. 

The stuff on VST plugins and OS dependencies (in the FAQ) was interesting.
It will be interesting to see whether developers will get behind this
program and supply working plugins/sourcecode. The idea of a system that is
independent of the vagaries and vicissitudes of proprietory operating
systems -- with their never-ending stream of "upgrades" has a certain appeal. 
  
>I know it doesn't come within a mile of Logic (especially Platinum)

Yep - no midi sequencing at this stage -- just audio recording and mixing.

>... but
>how long before someone ports it to OSX?

The following is from the FAQ and may have some bearing on this question:

>2.3.  Does Ardour run on non-Linux systems?
>
>Ardour depends on the JACK system to access the sound hardware.  I do
>not believe that JACK has been ported to non-linux systems.  If it
>was, Ardour should be able to run on that platform.  Also, Ardour has
>abstracted the JACK dependency, so it can be ported to use another
>sound library.  But at the time, it only uses the JACK library, which
>only runs on Linux.  The JACK website is http://jackit.sf.net/.

Regards,
Murray