Re: I would like an advice
Re: I would like an advice
- Subject: Re: I would like an advice
- From: Paul Davis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:44:14 -0400
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Jose Maria Gomez
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to create my own DAW and I am looking around in order to
> choose the right libraries, platform, language, etc.
yeah, that's what I said more than 10 years ago ... if I had
understood then what I was getting into, I would not have started. For
some perspective, it took me less than 2 months to write a fully
functional 24 track hard disk recorder. Then we realized we needed an
editor. That was early 2000 ....
> My main platform is going to be MAC, I mean, I am interested in MAC
> users and it is for that I was insterested in CoreAudio, but to be
> honest I am not sure it there are other good alternatives. I have been
> reading about Arduor, and although it works in MAC it doesnot use it. It
> uses Jack instead.
JACK uses CoreAudio. Its a layer between the application and CoreAudio
that also adds some functionality that CoreAudio by itself doesn't
have. It also provides cross-platform-ness, and a very clean and
simple API that tends to enforce good application design.
> On other hands, talking about GUI, I was thinking about Cocoa and about
> Qt. Cocoa gives me a native support to mac platform but on the other
> hands Qt give me a multiplatform solution and I can work in C++ instead
> in Objective-C. I am programing in C++ for 12 years.
both Qt and GTK (the two main "advanced" crossplaform GUI toolkits)
continue to have issues with some of the subtler aspects of Apple's
Cocoa APIs, though they are improving all the time. we use GTK on X11
platforms, Cocoa and (recently) win32 and it works OK for us even
though we have to wrangle with a few details.
personally, if I was starting to write Ardour again today, I'd
probably start with something like JUCE instead or just do everything
myself on top of OpenGL. the only really hard widgets are a treeview
and a filesystem browser.
but then again, I wouldn't start to write Ardour again today, and I'd
ask that you use your time and enthusiam more productively by coming
to help us make it a better program rather than start from scratch
too. of course, its your decision to make.
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