[linux-audio-user] i'm a graphic designer - use me! ;-)

[iriXx]

Daniel James wrote:

> I've used Reason on a Mac, and believe that emulating all those rack units is 
> a macho thing that has little to do with making music and everything to do 
> with the transfer of arcane knowledge. Why have a visual representation of a 
> real patchbay when kaconnect does the same job in a way that anyone could 
> understand, and with a minimum of resources used?

very interesting point....
i'm wondering if its possible to code a front end to kaconnect, 
something like Tksysv - where you just select what you want connecting 
to what, in boxes, rahter than wih all those wires everywhere that i'm 
gonna lose track of sooner or later!!!

yes, i agree, its a kind of macho thing!
having seen this at work in the studio frequently as a woman composer ;-)

> 
> 
>>there seems to be a fashion for this sort of stuff now... i dont find it
>>very helpful 
> 
> 
> Maybe audio apps that are straightforward will bring people to digital music 
> production that have been too intimidated before. There's still a barrier 
> between artists on the one hand, and engineers and producers on the other - 
> that arcane knowledge again. I've heard that in the 1960's, few artists were 
> allowed in the control room - Pink Floyd had to fight for the right to edit 
> their own music at EMI. 

yeah... is it an elitist thing, or is it simply that apps are written by 
coders rather than musicians a lot of the time?... i know only of a few 
coders who *are* professional musicians (most of them reside on this list :)

> 
> Now computers are ubiquitous in the first world, in theory any musician should 
> be able to make their own CD - but I know from my own experience that many 
> still don't know how. They imagine that they'd need to buy thousands of 
> pounds worth of equipment, and then face the difficult task of learning it 
> all - because they anticpate that computers aren't intuitive.

and thats where the mac world seems to take over & sucker everyone 
in.... because it looks so 'simple'... remember the old ad 'i'm not a 
computer person?'...
when the fact is they end up using exactly the same tools as everyone 
else....

its not actually hard for a musician to translate to computers - it just 
takes some self-belief.... musicians, generally, have a good head for 
mathematics, you have to to be able to write music.... and a good head 
for languages too... its just overcoming that barrier of 'ooh, i couldnt 
be technical'....

my former teacher in Holland - from back when i was an instrumental 
composer - has recently switched to using Sibelius to print all his work 
instead of the laborious hand-copying he has always done, and is 
marketing all of his music on the web. he, when i first met him, was 
most definately *not* a computer person - probably still isn't ! so if 
he can do it.... ;-)

best

m~


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