[Ardour-Users] Fw: can't get midi to work

[Brett McCoy]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede at gmail.com> wrote:

> It isn't that Ubuntu can't be used, it is that it tends to be more of
> a headache than anything especially for new users.  They tend to break
> the distribution packages of Ardour in subtle but annoying ways, and
> they are specific to Ubuntu.  That combined with the effort of getting
> Pulse and Jack to play well together(Less of a problem recently I
> admit) and their tendenecy to update packages a bit on the slow
> side(2.8.6 is how many years old now?) means that it generally is not
> the best choice for people not looking to spend significant amounts of
> time in sysadmin working around what they have done.

Actually, Ubuntu has 2.8.11 now, at least Natty does.

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