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On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:34 AM, cunnilinux himself  wrote:
> just interested about your POSITIVE motivation (if any).

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> i'm intended to write about mine own a bit later... ;)

Here are my top 3:
1.) Modularity
As a user, I can assemble applications in all sorts of different ways,

thanks to JACK.
As a developer, I can rely on building blocks created by other

developers.  Excellent libraries like libsndfile, libsamplerate,

PortAudio, JACK, Lilv, Suil, and RtMidi make developing Linux audio

applications much, much easier.
2.) Low latency audio and low jitter MIDI
I can compose music for hours with 1.33 milliseconds of internal

latency without xruns.
I use external synths to create most of my music, so low-jitter MIDI

is an absolute requirement.  With Linux, I get peak MIDI jitter around

1.5 milliseconds, which is phenomenal for a USB2 MIDI device sending

MIDI to four synthesizers.  I don't think there's a better USB MIDI

driver on any other operating system.
JACK, ALSA, and a realtime kernel make this possible.
3.) Open source
If I find a bug in an application I'm working with or a library I'm

linking to, I don't have to wait around for a developer to fix the

problem.  I can fix it myself, and send the fix to the developer.
--

Devin Anderson

surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com
blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/

midisnoop - http://midisnoop.googlecode.com/

psinsights - http://psinsights.googlecode.com/

synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/

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