On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 14:30 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 14:04, jdow wrote:
>
> > For what it is worth the state of MIDI on 'ix is one of the chief
> > reasons I do not do more of my professional development on an 'ix
> > operating system. Microsoft MIDI is bad enough. But 'ixish MIDI
> > is sickening to work with the last times I tried. Good luck.
> >
> > {o.o} <- needs MIDI with sub-millisecond accuracy for some things.
> > SMF files can't do that. But the software we have can. Even
> > millisecond accuracy on ix machines has been "amusing" to
> > try to get. Making arpeggios work right is bad enough. But
> > MIDI Show Control and MIDI Machine Control sometimes needs
> > that 1 ms or finer timing accuracy to make effects work right.
>
> Does OS X qualify as 'ix in this respect or have they they
> made it usable for professional work?
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if it doesn't work on OS X, there are going to be a lot of surprised Pro
Tools/Logic Pro/etc. users but Apple doesn't necessarily give much to
the open source community.
Craig
