[Ardour-Dev] Ardour CD's

[Patrick Shirkey]

Ben Bell wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:39:24PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>   
>> - Item 2 is a Live boot CD with just Ardour running as lean and mean as 
>>     
> A variation on this (or something this could grow into) would be a
> maintained reference release of a genuinely useful ardour-centric studio,
> both live CD and install-to-harddisk.
>
>  * ardour
>  * JAMin?
>  * A known-good set of plugins.
>  * 100% support for a certain good hardware configs (ice1712, HDSP)
>
> A lot of people ask for hardware recommendations or plugin
> recommendations and shipping "supported" ardour distributions. Having
> something like this that we can say is the non-techie's guaranteed-to-work
> version would be a Good Thing.
>
> We could do this ourselves or with the help of CCRMA, 64studio or
> whatever but IMHO it ought to be very much a cut-down distribution that
> was just ardour related stuff with only plugins that work.
>
> It would be useful for users to have an installation of ardour that we knew
> was configured correctly and for us to have something of a focal point
> for the development. "This is the Studio Release of Ardour. Feel free to
> install you distribution's version or build your own, but if you want to
> build a system from scratch around Ardour, here's how we recommend you
> do it."
>
>   

I agree that it will be useful. Someone else has mentioned that it 
should not be available for free though. This would be another way to 
make some money.


Cheers.


-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.