<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I second the frustration on a lack of user feedback...<br><br>Michael<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Devin Anderson <surfacepatterns@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Dave Phillips <dlphillips@woh.rr.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org; linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 5, 2013 11:09 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [LAD]
[LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?<br> </font> </div> <br>
Hi Dave,<br><br>On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Dave Phillips <<a ymailto="mailto:dlphillips@woh.rr.com" href="mailto:dlphillips@woh.rr.com">dlphillips@woh.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Not enough native plugins, esp. instruments.<br><br>I think this is one of the key problems with Linux audio. Part of the<br>problem is that there is no clear mechanism for (non-developer) users<br>to create their own instruments. Many VSTs are constructed with<br>modular DSP programs like synthedit and flowstone (formerly<br>synthmaker). There's probably an opportunity here for Ingen or a new<br>graphical DSP program based on Faust to fill this hole.<br><br>In general, I think that Linux audio has a lot of tools that help<br>users to create music, but not a lot of tools that help users create<br>their own tools (e.g. instruments, plugins, sample libraries, etc.) to<br>help others to create music.<br><br>On the development side, I think Aurélien
and others like him have the<br>right idea in taking instruments/plugins that are specific to a Linux<br>audio application and porting them to LV2. There's a lot of awesome<br>instruments that are specific to applications (e.g. ALSA Modular<br>Synth, LMMS, etc.) that would generally be more useful if they were<br>LV2 plugins.<br><br>> Poor external/internal session management.<br><br>Interacting with external hardware can be frustrating. Commercial<br>programs like Renoise account for external hardware in their workflows<br>(e.g. latency management, MIDI clock, MMC, etc.). Most Linux Audio<br>apps don't do this.<br><br>> Too much conflict/fragmentation within the development community.<br><br>I've been trying to write something about conflict and fragmentation<br>for the past 10 minutes. I think this is a complex issue. I'm not<br>able to find the words to communicate about it right now.<br><br>> So, in your honest
and bold opinion as user and/or developer, what do we<br>> lack most and what can we do without that we already have ?<br><br>As a developer, I'm missing a couple things:<br><br>1.) User feedback.<br><br>I can't stress this enough. I watch the download counts increase on<br>the applications I create, but I hardly ever get feedback. I'm<br>discouraged and frustrated by the lack of feedback.<br><br>2.) Non-code developers<br><br>We have a lot of dedicated open source developers writing Linux audio<br>apps, plugins, etc., but I have yet to meet an open source UI<br>designer, or an open source graphic artist. I think a lot of the apps<br>we create could benefit from the feedback of a user interface<br>experience expert.<br><br>There's probably more, but these are the two things that occur to me now.<br><br>Dave, this is an important topic. Thanks for taking it on.<br><br>-- <br>Devin Anderson<br>surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot)
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