Make a Linux version

Just a far far out idea....

There is no decent DAW for Linux. Maybe it's time to create a market.
Of course there probably is no budget for R&D and this isn't particularly realistic...

However bare bones code could also be ported to android.. Only a matter of time when android systems are generally capable..

Not using it for music, but I am developing my plug-in under Linux. I am stuck with X2a, but SONAR it is working fine under Ubuntu
 
About Android: all applications are in Java (Andoroid is in general just a JVM running above Linux kernel). I have not seen reasonably fast running Java programs yet. Something with a "standard" code offloaded to the native code (games) or relatively simple (one synth) can run fine on usually slow CPUs used on Android devices. But there is no RAM and no CPU power for full scale DAW like SONAR. Even without JVM (which slow down any code significantly), you can check which projects are ok let say on Atom based Windows nettop. I have to freeze everything even with just 2-3 synth to be able to record additional tracks.

I haven not managed to run my MAudio Fireware there. There was half working solutions, but the firmware had to be preloaded in Win. I have decided to not spend my time on that and have started AZ Controller project
 
All my attempts to run X3 under Wine have failed. I have installed all required libraries and it even attempt to start. I hope Wine better emulate Win7+ soon.
 

gswitz
Have you tried ardour? I use Ubuntu studio and it its really fun.

Thanks for reminding me. I tried it a year ago and didn't get anywhere. With the latest Ubuntu Studio I finally managed to get somewhere after a couple of hours of head scratching - it really works!
 
&Thanks dubdiscipe I shall check out Harrison. I totally doubt Linux is in the plans either but it's an interesting conversation regardless. I certainly think it would be a better market to steal rather than Mac, but the code rewrite would definitely be far too much.

Doktor Avalanche
Interesting thread I found, which includes a reaction from Cakewalk and it also pointed me to Bitwig studio and trackiton ...
 
It's interesting that all the new DAW's coming out are totally cross platform, I guess they planned it from the get go.
 
http://steamcommunity.com/app/241070/discussions/0/630800443024063721/
 
http://www.bitwig.com/en/bitwig-studio.html
 
http://www.tracktion.com/
 

I think it's a lot easier to do from the ground up than to port.  It is certainly not impossible.  Considering that underneath all the proprietary Mac stuff, Mac OS is a prettier BSD (yes, i am oversimplifying it) which is based on UNIX the same as Linux is, developing for Linux should not be that much harder than Mac OS.  I think companies tend to forget about Linux during the early phases where it would be much more simple to develop Linux version paralell to Win and Mac versions because of the perception that Linux software is free.  Much of the commonly known software for Linux is free and open source, but not all.  Many high end applications used in Hollywood are anything but free but are highly specialized and expensive.  Even Ardour is not free anymore (unless you want to compile yourself). 

I think when Windows 10 starts updating itself against your will and it starts crashing everybody's projects, someone will decide to save the day. A Linux DAW will be born.  They will eclipse everyone else on that day being the only valid DAW that the greed driven big data pilferers  cant crash. It will be a great day. Who will that vision driven company be?

There are already several Linux daws available