[linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

Marek Peteraj marpet at naex.sk
Wed Jun 9 14:42:32 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:05, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:44:53 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote
> > > There are various kinds of users of audio SW; their requirements
> > > and opinions will vary. In my experience, most serious and
> > > professional users prefer a UI that is first of all functional,
> > 
> > Have you done a survey?
> 
> Most music software written for profit is now aimed at rich bedroom techno
> making kids - hence all the flashy GUI's. Professional software (that costs
> much much more) will often have much simpler, clean interfaces because if you
> use it all day every day gimmicky GUI's tend to get very annoying very fast.


Really?

I can give you a perfect example - a *reference* DAW system - ProTools.
Which, in ver. 6, has gone eye-candy.
Guess why.

Another fine example - serious professionals using Mac, with macosx.
Pure eyecandy.

Marek




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