[teach]

I think it's a shame that this is targetted at the hacker-musician community, but the development environment is almost Windows only. (Written in C#, partially working under Mono on OS X, not tested under Linux.)

I suspect the vast majority of musician-hacker types don't use Windows.

Edit: I see that the Linux version is mostly held back by a third-party Windows-only tool, and a cross-platform replacement is under development. Awesome.

[bitwize]

I suspect the vast majority of musician-hacker types don't use Windows.

Since the death of the Amiga and Atari ST, virtually all pro digital music stuff is done on Macs.

But more musicians probably use Windows than use Linux.

[ScottWhigham]

That was true a decade ago but, starting around 2008 and forward, that's just not the case anymore. Macs are good and still popular but they are not what powers "virtually all pro digital music stuff" in 2012.

[retrogradeorbit]

"virtually all pro digital music stuff is done on Mac"

Citation needed. I think this is pure speculation. Are you factoring in all the PC protools rigs in recording studios across the world? What about RADAR units? Or by "pro" do you mean "prosumer"?

[AhtiK]

Yes, most of the pro digital music production software is available for Windows and Mac (no linux): Propellerheads Reason, the whole Native Instruments product stack, Ableton.

There are just a few obvious Mac-only exceptions such as Garage Band and Logic Pro. Sadly none of the "industry standard" DAWs support Linux.

[veridies]

This is the biggest problem for me; I'd love one of these if I had stable OS X or Linux software to run it.

[lux]

+1 for OSX support. With GarageBand and with the huge popularity of Macs in audio circles in general, support for it seems pretty critical.

[InclinedPlane]

More so, if it worked on linux then it could potentially run on Raspberry Pi, which is an obvious choice for such a device.

[retrogradeorbit]

Latency may be an issue on a Rasberry Pi. You can subtly feel a latency of 10ms-30ms in the sound when playing a guitar. And over 30ms is outside the Haas effect zone, so is glaringly obvious. Rasberry Pi also has no audio input, and only HDMI audio output, which is digital. Guitar amplifiers take an unbalanced high impedance analogue input. I don't think embedded OS is as important as the programming OS. I would certainly like to see the other OSes supported for developing patches.

[retrogradeorbit]

Turns out there is analogue audio out on the Rasberry Pi. Sorry about that. No inbuilt audio in though.