[PaulDavisThe1st]

The reasons why a tool like Live exists or does not exist on a platform has essentially zero relationship to the APIs used for audio and MIDI I/O.

As others have noted, Bitwig already exists - in some ways, it is more powerful than Live (and in others, less). It is also proprietary.

Also, Live is not the kind of tool that most people would associate the term user friendly with. It's quite hard to get started using Live, despite the program being basically 100% awesomesauce. Live is extremely friendly towards a certain kind of workflow for "in-the-box" music production, and has fundamentally changed the entire zeitgeist surrounding making music with computers. But it's not a replacement for linear timeline DAWs (like ProTools, Logic, Sonar, Ardour etc. etc.) and has its own foibles and certainly its own complexities and limitations.

I anticipate that the next major release of Ardour will have some Live-like features starting to arrive.

[ivarv]

> I anticipate that the next major release of Ardour will have some Live-like features starting to arrive.

This is pretty intriguing - is there a public roadmap for these Live-like features ?

[PaulDavisThe1st]

We don't have enough developer resources to make roadmaps a worthwhile thing to spend time on. I work on this stuff when I am inclined and when there don't seem to be more important things to work on.

Also, just to be clear, I said "the next major release" because in my own head, 6.0 is "almost upon us". What I meant was the next major release after 6.0.