Roland's 'closed-in' approach

AlexK · 4th January 2012

So fairly soon I'm going to have to be using a REAC system on a regular basis.

WHY don't Roland support major OSes, rather than just Windows?! It can't be that difficult to write a functioning driver which will allow me to record into ProTools/Reaper/Logic whatever I might want to use?!

What gives? It's kinda 90s don't you think?

AlexK · 5th January 2012

Fine

Ward Pike · 5th January 2012

I also hate that about Roland. Idiots... Eejits, even. Myopic insular single-minded attitudes when they know that most of us in the music world are Mac OSX.

Of course, what really ticks me off is that out of all synths, Roland are the ones I turn to for sounds I can trust with the least amount of cheese.

Your opinion may vary.

famousbass · 7th January 2012

Has any major company proven that being open is better then being closed?
At least a closed system doesn't crash.
Isn't absolute reliability the biggest upside of the debate?

AlexK · 7th January 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by famousbass

Has any major company proven that being open is better then being closed?
At least a closed system doesn't crash.
Isn't absolute reliability the biggest upside of the debate?

True, although ProTools manages to be stable on both Mac and PC.

Dave Slevin · 18th January 2012

There was a kernel extension; or the source code for one. It built into a .kext file. I tried to build it, I couldn't. There seemed to be a dependency missing or something.Then the project vanished from git hub. I wonder had Roland anything to do with that.

There's also a Linux back engineered job that a guy on the reaper forum made.

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AlexK Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2009 Location: Cardiff & Bath, UK Posts: 1,342 Thread Starter	Roland's 'closed-in' approach So fairly soon I'm going to have to be using a REAC system on a regular basis. WHY don't Roland support major OSes, rather than just Windows?! It can't be that difficult to write a functioning driver which will allow me to record into ProTools/Reaper/Logic whatever I might want to use?! What gives? It's kinda 90s don't you think? __________________ Alex Twitter

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Ward Pike Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 1,715 10 Reviews written	I also hate that about Roland. Idiots... Eejits, even. Myopic insular single-minded attitudes when they know that most of us in the music world are Mac OSX. Of course, what really ticks me off is that out of all synths, Roland are the ones I turn to for sounds I can trust with the least amount of cheese. Your opinion may vary. __________________ -- Free the electrons! Use tubes/valves when possible.

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Dave Slevin Gear nut Joined: Oct 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 142	There was a kernel extension; or the source code for one. It built into a .kext file. I tried to build it, I couldn't. There seemed to be a dependency missing or something.Then the project vanished from git hub. I wonder had Roland anything to do with that. There's also a Linux back engineered job that a guy on the reaper forum made. __________________ http://www.myspace.com/virtustudios

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