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On 02/06/2013 03:19 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:

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> 2013/2/5 Dave Phillips

>

>     Greetings,

>

>     I've been reading a lot of negative (read: vitriolic) commentary

>     about the world of Linux audio development and applications. I won't

>     bother to say where, just "the usual places" will have to suffice.

>     Of greater interest to me is the commentary itself - it seems to

>     boil down to the following plaints and lamentations (in no

>     particular order) :

>

>     Too many distros.

>     Too many audio-optimized distros.

>     Not enough native plugins, esp. instruments.

>     Inconsistent support for VST/VSTi plugins.

>     Too many unstable/unfinished applications.

>     Too many  "standards" (esp. wrt plugins).

>     Poor external/internal session management.

>     Poor support for certain modes of composition (think Ableton Live).

>     Lack of support for contemporary hardware.

>     Confusion re: desktops, and GUI toolkits.

>     Too difficult to set up audio system.

>     JACK is a pain.

>     Too much conflict/fragmentation within the development community.

>

> One could be a professional with/without skills and/or an hobbyist

> with/without skills, no matter who you are you need apps which doesn't

> turn sound engineer or a guitar player or composer into a *nix OS student.

I'm sorry, but if you're a professional, *you know how to use your

tools*. Would you hire a carpenter who didn't know which end of a hammer

to use for driving a nail, or hauled out a chainsaw for doing some fine

veneer work while building a cabinet? What would you think of a

guitarist who never learned to set up their Fancy Big Stomp Box because

of all those "technical" things like sustain or reverb, etc? "I just

want to make sounds! Why do I have to know the difference between

sustain and reverb? I should be able to get what I want without having

to do anything!" ;-)
--

David

gnome@hawaii.rr.com

authenticity, honesty, community

http://clanjones.org/david/

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