[LAU] A year of Linux Audio revisited - would like to know your oppinion

[bradley newton haug]

Contest them then.  Hand-waving, general statements and some  bizzare
paragraph about  your son does nothing to support your stance.



On Dec 11, 2007 10:50 PM, Robert Persson <ireneshusband at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Please! This is really very rude. It also contains many statements that
> would be hotly contested by academics in such fields as art history and
> performance theory. It is probably high time you acquainted yourself with
> the work of the Portsmouth Sinfonia<http://www.portsmouthsinfonia.com/media/sundaytimes.html>
> .
>
> As for school theatre productions, I can safely say that my son's grade 1
> class play was far more fascinating and conceptually intriguing than most of
> the professional theatre I have had to endure in recent years. I've been
> asking myself how grown-ups might be able to generate the same kind of
> distracted spacedoutness. Maybe it's completely impossible. Pity.
>
> bradley newton haug wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
> In your opinion, of course.  My own opinion is that production and
> > arrangement are more important to the impact of a piece than the
> > skill of its players, with composition being the most important of
> > all.  You'll say I'm wrong, and you will be wrong.
> >
>
> watch a high school shakespeare rendition sometime.
>
>
> > But neither of our opinions matter to people who are looking at Linux
> > audio tools and finding them lacking.  Saying "That feature that I've
> > never heard of sucks, and if you use it, your style of music sucks"
> > doesn't come off as an indictment of commercialism so much as it
> > resembles sour grapes.
> >
>
> if you have to step input your music and rely on groove quant to make it
> sound
> 'real' you are speaking from a massive musical disadvantage.  We've been
> making music
> for tens of thousands of years, it seems to me you're the one blaming your
> tools.
>
>
>
> >
> > If you're happy with Linux audio being as limited as a glorified tape
> > recorder, that's fine, but some of us have higher ambitions.
> >
>
> again, if you can't record music with a 'record' and 'stop' button.
> Nothing can really help you.
>
> Can linux replace a windows or OSX rig that a schmuck can load up, slap
> some loops on, use factory presets on
> their softsynths and press a magic button to fix their amateurish keyboard
> noodlings?
>
> no
>
> can linux be used to make music?  yes
>
>
> -bradley newton haug
>
>
>
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