[LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Tue Aug 25 20:17:15 UTC 2009


Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>   
>> I guess there's nothing wrong to encourage somebody who guess that he isn't
>> able to play guitar, that he anyway should play guitar and ignore bullshit
>> like stupid guitar playing, similar to the Roland synth way. This was what I
>> did.
>>     
>
> what possible relevance does this have to LAD? miller puckette made
> something possible, and you sounded to me as though you were
> complaining that what he did was a bad idea because it doesn't fit in
> with your ideas of aesthetic creation. i have my own ideas about good
> and bad and terrible ways to make music, and the results thereof, but
> i generally try to keep this to myself, and certainly keep it off LAD.
>  i found your commentary on miller's work rude and insulting, both as
> a wannabe musician and as a developer of FLOSS. if you are not
> interested in what he has done, then just don't bother to comment upon
> it.
>
> of course, i may have misread your comments.

Seems to be a misunderstanding. I like the idea of smeck for doing 
experimental music. If I had enough money I would test it too, but as 
you see, even for people who have hex pickups it needs effort to enable 
the usage of smeck.



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