[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Jason Russler]

> 1) a windows version
> 2) MIDI sequencing


JACK makes 2 less of a problem.  And yes, a Windows version would be
my path to full adoption of Ardour which is why I was sorry I hit
send.  Shoe-horning VST into Linux seems to be what you describe it
as.  Wine only makes things half-work - activation mechanisms (such as
NI's service center) don't work at all (or only in breif windows of
CVS commits).  So you're correct in that I should quit wishing for
Ardour in my case.   I'm a Linux systems engineer at high performance
computing facility.  I just want to use Linux all the time.  The grim
reality of Linux and the VST industry standard is simply frustrating.


> The reasons for not targetting (1) have been made clear before.
> Ardour3 is targetting (2) (among many other changes).
>
> That leaves the question of people who think that its sensible and
> appropriate to expect that software they bought for one operating
> should work on another (i.e. I want to run my windows VSTi's on Linux)
>  Sometimes, I think that we programmers do too much. This is a
> basically totally unreasonable request. For some reason, some
> programmers (including myself) attempted to make it possible.
>
> So, ... you can already do this to a large extent (though of course,
> Ardour2 does not deliver MIDI to such plugins) but in the absence of
> pre-built, pre-configured machines that have all their t's crossed and
> all their i's dotted, this is always going to be more pain for users
> than most of them want to bear.
>
> Even though I was intimately involved in making
> VST-written-for-Windows-run-on-Linux possible, I continue to believe
> that its mostly a fools errand. If VST and VSTi's are criticial for
> your workflow then you need to stay on Windows or consider a host like
> Reaper running under Wine on Linux. Even that has some overlapping
> issues because of the dependency on Wine to continue supporting every
> aspect of the Windows environment successfully. On the other hand, the
> bigger the plugin, the more likely it will work well. Things like
> Kontakt have always been the most reliable.
>