<br>you can try all you want to 'fix it in the mix' but you can't polish a turd. If you can't play, no engineering on the planet will save you.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In your opinion, of course. My own opinion is that production and<br>arrangement are more important to the impact of a piece than the<br>skill of its players, with composition being the most important of<br>all. You'll say I'm wrong, and you will be wrong.
<br></blockquote><div><br>watch a high school shakespeare rendition sometime.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
But neither of our opinions matter to people who are looking at Linux<br>audio tools and finding them lacking. Saying "That feature that I've<br>never heard of sucks, and if you use it, your style of music sucks"
<br>doesn't come off as an indictment of commercialism so much as it<br>resembles sour grapes.<br></blockquote><div><br>if you have to step input your music and rely on groove quant to make it sound<br>'real' you are speaking from a massive musical disadvantage. We've been making music
<br>for tens of thousands of years, it seems to me you're the one blaming your tools.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>If you're happy with Linux audio being as limited as a glorified tape<br>recorder, that's fine, but some of us have higher ambitions.<br><font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>again, if you can't record music with a 'record' and 'stop' button. Nothing can really help you.
<br><br>Can linux replace a windows or OSX rig that a schmuck can load up, slap some loops on, use factory presets on<br>their softsynths and press a magic button to fix their amateurish keyboard noodlings? <br><br>no<br>
<br>can linux be used to make music? yes<br><br><br>-bradley newton haug<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font color="#888888">
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