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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:02:21AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> i don't agree with you that its about a type of music. it is about the

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> difference between some different ways of producing music, and not

> just two of them. there are certainly approaches to making music that

> are not well served by a DAW. but they are approaches to the

> production of music, not kinds of music.

Well, 'type' or even 'a particular type' can refer to a leaf node

in the taxonomy or to a quite solid branch of it.

The are classes of music that depend on sequencing etc. in order to

be produced at all - that's why people involved in them want those

features in the first place. I don't think it's wrong to call this

'a particular type of music', the type is defined by its dependence

on those tools.
> i think you're wrong. its not that a DAW represents one particular

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> musical culture, it just reflects some cultures of music production

> and not others.

Indeed, see above.
> the notion that there is ever "one tool" for a task as

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> incredibly varied as producing music is absurd. nobody with half a

> brain suggests that any DAW can be that tool.

Then maybe the term 'DAW' is misnomer. I wouldn't call a tool

that can't do simple four point editing an 'audio workstation'.

The sad fact here is that Ardour probably has 99% of the code

required to do it. The final 1% is missing because the concept

doesn't exist in the mindset of the developers. And by that I

don't want to suggest they are too stupid for it (as some may

choose to interpret my words), but just that they are focussed

on a 'type', 'class', 'category' or whatever you may call it

of music that doesn't require it.
> not to be mercenary about it, but the difference is that if your needs

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> were that important and not being met by anything available to an

> intolerable degree, you could (or some organization could) choose to

> pay to have your needs met and not face any licensing/access issues in

> doing so..

Well, I could pay or I could offer my time as a developer. During

the last five years I have several times offered to integrate decent

multichannel or AMB panning into Ardour, provided I could team up

with someone taking care of the GUI aspects (I'm a nitwit regarding

writing for GTK). Nothing has happened. I've arrived at the point

where it quite clear that if I want certain functionality I'll be

on my own to implement it.
Ciao,
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