elementary OS

professional Solutions (audio)

Asked by gusta

(google translate) I start to congratulate you for the work done, is being one of the more polished interfaces and pleasant views of linux.
one of the goals of elementary os (if I'm not mistaken) is to improve the user experience, there is one area where Linux is very sins, proposing solutions very difficult and not very intuitive: multimedia production, in species as in the production of professional level audio .
there is a very minimal support to sound cards addressed for this purpose, and a panorama of audio server that integrates esting very bad between them, many users expect to see flourish series of solutions and professional to this problem, being able to have a stable and powerful on a linux box without impazzirci behind, which is in addition been a source of great strength for mac osx lion before.
it is possible that the team of elementary os consider to stir a little water (where possible) in this direction?

I enclose the text originile if it is not cabile due to online translation and someone familiar with the language.

inizio a congratularmi con voi per il lavoro fatto, sta venendo una delle interfacce più pulite e piacevoli del panorama linux.
uno degli obbiettivi di elementary os ( se mi non sbaglio) è migliorare l'esperienza utente, è c'è un settore dove linux pecca molto, proponendo soluzioni molto difficili e poco intuitive: la produzione multimediale, in spece nella produzione audio di livello professionale.
c'è un supporto veramente minimo alle schede audio indirizzate a questo scopo, e un panorama di server audio molto cmplesso che si integra male tra di loro, molti utenti aspettano di vedere fiorire delle soluzioni serie e professionali a questo problema, riuscendo ad avere un ambiente stabile e potente su una linux box senza dover impazzirci dietro, che è in oltre stato motivo di grande forza di mac osx prima di lion.
è possibile che il team di elementary os prenda in considerazione di smuovere un po le acque (dove è possibile) in questa direzione?

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Otto Robba (otto-ottorobba) said : 		#1

I am merely a contributor to the elementary project so my answer might not be as accurate as one would like (or even right, for that matter). The first and foremost objective of the OS is to provide the best possible desktop experience. This does include making some applications from scratch (no pun intended) but there is a stretch of manpower that limits certain areas.

The target audience is composed of the average user and newcomers, meaning that while professinal editing tools are important, the focus is on the majority that uses mostly a web browser, e-mail, office application, etc...
Therefore it is highly unlikely that elementary devs will release an audio editor but that doesn't mean that one that is intuitive and professional would not be wanted. Good applications are always welcome. The development of such will depend a lot if more developers can be brought into the OS ecosystem, which so far has been quite positive but honestly, only time will tell.

Will the status quo change? Maybe. We are seeing wonderful things come from unexpected places - gala itself was a major surprise for me. And there is all this comotion around elementary and people are more and more excited...who knows what the future holds. Some tools are unlikely to ever get developed this way (desktop publishing will probably be restricted to Scribus, which is a great application) and if elementary OS hits it home, we might get to see older tools refreshed.

But this is me, guessing what the future might hold and saying that it is extremely unlikely that the core developers of elementary release an audio editor. I'd love to be proven wrong on this subject ;)

Meanwhile, I don't know if this helps but you might want to take a look at Ardour (http://ardour.org/), Ocenaudio (http://www.ocenaudio.com.br/en/whatis) and the ever present Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)

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gusta (g-ferrarris) said : 		#2

(Translation by google) I give you thanks a lot for the answer.
know and respect ardor, which is very powerful but it needs a lot of work in some areas (eg gui, the use of mp3 and a set of its dsp plugin)
But what reflected in linux and a bad integration of core audio, too many and poorly integrated (gstreamer, ASLA, pulse audio jack. etc. etc.) would be used to integrate into larger structure that allows you to control them all at once and manage time and latencies automatically (without starting jacks for example) the user uses, see sect and too many things and if you have to work and one big disadvantage :)