will live work on linux???

dumi · Post by **dumi** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:25 pm

i really need to know.

bencodec · Post by **bencodec** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:43 pm

nope, though i wish it did. fi there was demand, i'm sure ableton could port the mac version to linux pretty pretty quickly.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:45 pm

Not sure about that, but Live is the only thing that's keeping me from maybe switching to Linux... though I've yet to get it to work on my iBook. The idea of cheap hardware does appeal to me, as does the OpenSource movement... but XP does not!

-Paws

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:51 pm

noisetonepause wrote:Not sure about that, but Live is the only thing that's keeping me from maybe switching to Linux... though I've yet to get it to work on my iBook. The idea of cheap hardware does appeal to me, as does the OpenSource movement... but XP does not!

-Paws

Just wait until you see how well linux runs on good hardware compared to windows xp. =) Windows is seriously atrocious when it comes to making proper use of CPU time in a multitasking environment, imo.

I also wish that ableton would port live over to linux. I'm sure that if the demand was there, they'd be willing to make the port, but honestly, I can't imagine how many professional musicians out there are using live. But who knows, perhaps that trend will start to change as we start seeing more high quality music software for linux.

I would definitely be willing to work for ableton to help make the port (and move to berlin, too, whoot!), but unfortunately, I don't think they are looking to hire on linux developers atm. ;]

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:06 pm

If Live ran on Linux I'd switch immediately. EnergyXT is due to be ported soon and some of the plugins and synths that already exist sound amazing.

It's growing slowly, so's people's interest and dissatisfaction with Windows. Not all of us can afford Macs, man i'd love to be running Audio on Linux, but as it stands it's a bit hard to get yer head round, unless you're really technically minded.

It's comin though, it's just a matter of time.

dpel · Post by **dpel** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:34 pm

sqook wrote: but honestly, I can't imagine how many professional musicians out there are using live.

uhhhhm, oh yes, we are out here!

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:49 am

dpel wrote:
sqook wrote: but honestly, I can't imagine how many professional musicians out there are using live.

uhhhhm, oh yes, we are out here!

Is that why your sig has "SP2" appended to it? ;P

BigGreen · Post by **BigGreen** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:50 am

dpel wrote:
sqook wrote: but honestly, I can't imagine how many professional musicians out there are using live.

uhhhhm, oh yes, we are out here!

I'm thinkin he meant to say "Linux"

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:34 am

Of course few musicians are using Linux cos the tools aren't really there yet... but I honestly think that Linux-derivatives will be around longer than Windows-derivatives.

-Paws

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:14 am

yeah, you just have to look at the buzz around 'Jack' to see that that's true. The plugin standards are far more flexible and well thought out too.

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:50 pm

BigGreen wrote:
dpel wrote:
sqook wrote: but honestly, I can't imagine how many professional musicians out there are using live.

uhhhhm, oh yes, we are out here!
I'm thinkin he meant to say "Linux"

omg, I did. What a moron I am. =)

*smacks forehead again*

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:56 pm

without knowing a great deal about Linux, personally I would think it would be a long way of, if ever. Reason I say this is I dont think the 'cheap' hardware OS - WIN XP is unreliable enough any more to make people look around for something different - for most people it works fine for what they want to do and I dont think enough people are 'geeky' enough to take linux on until it's ironed out and ready to the point where it's all a simple install of everything without having to know anything else about it

Like I said I dont know much about it, so if anyone has any other good reasons I'm very interested - I definitely like the idea, just not sure I could justify putting the time in if I dont really need to.

bencodec · Post by **bencodec** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:07 pm

I think it will happen, there are already several distros of linux that are specifially designed for music and audio performance, and with tools like PD, jack, and supercollider all available on linux theres more reason then there ever was. I seem to recall reading that there is now a full DAW for linux now as well, though i can't remember the name of it.

I think it's gonna take some specially to computer companies marketing music specific PCs that come preloaded to boot to linux before the change is really underway. but as the price of hardware comes down and the price of windoze stays the same pretty soon all the manufactureers are gonna have to strat offing Linux versions of theres packaged systems to allow their prices to continue to fall competitively .

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:16 pm

bencodec wrote:. but as the price of hardware comes down and the price of windoze stays the same pretty soon all the manufactureers are gonna have to strat offing Linux versions of theres packaged systems to allow their prices to continue to fall competitively .

good point....

bencodec · Post by **bencodec** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:25 pm

yeah, it's another downill battle. unless microsoft decides to change the way they make software and accept that the open souce movement is a great way to make software then i don't see how they can possible continue to be the dominant OS over the next 20 years.