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Last Saturday 30 July 2005 18:01, Jan Depner was like:

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> On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 16:04, hanaghan@starband.net wrote:

> > I want to know

> > what makes you spend the time you do on this stuff so guys like me can

> > pilfer legally and freely your hard works and then subsequently bitch at

> > random about how it doesn't work! :)

I understand the tongue in cheek-ness of this remark, but I think you've

muddied the waters by using this analogy.
>     One of the reasons that I started working on JAMin with Steve, Jack,

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> et al is that I was using Ardour.  I had tried to contribute to Ardour

> at first but it was too far along in development for me to jump in and

> easily get acclimated.  I didn't have the time to spend to get up to

> speed.  I felt that I owed something back to the community (and Paul in

> particular) for the work that had gone in to the applications that I was

> able to "pilfer legally and freely".  As far as playing nicely together

> is concerned, that's why we used JACK.  JAMin was actually designed to

> be the mastering backend to Ardour.  I have to admit that once I got

> started working on JAMin it was a hell of a lot of fun ;-)  It seems to

> me that some of the best ideas come from those who "bitch at random".

JAMin is a good example. I'm really impressed with the way it was developed

collaboratively, starting from a discussion here & on LAD AFAIU. I like the

fact that it's not a drop-in replacement for anything I've ever seen before

(my experience of music software outside Linux is limited) I like what it

does, the way it does it and I LOVE the way it looks. In fact, the only thing

I don't like is its heavy use of resources on this machine, but I suspect

that's a direct result of the sort of processing involved and I'm not

expecting that to change. Soon I will own a computer that was made this

century. Describing yourselves as those who "bitch at random" is

self-deprecating to say the least. I'd like to see more projects happen this

way.
cheers,
tim hall

http://glastonburymusic.org.uk