[LAU] lmms ?

[David Baron]

On Saturday 19 May 2007, David Adler wrote:
> > I mean, what would a 'newcomer' do just after buying a DVD 5.1 system
> > for his/her living room ?  Would we immediately think that this person
> > will be lost connecting it to his/her TV, as well as connecting the
> > speakers and cable ?
> >
> > I think that the 'newcomer' stereotype is defined on the low side.  And
> > being defined that way, it does not push forward any notion that is not
> > more complicated than connecting home theatre components together.
>
> i agree. To me, coming more from the hardware-side connecting tapedecs,
> turntables mixers and effect-racks, not ever having used any audio
> software before starting with linux three years ago, the concept of
> interconnecting small apps is much more intuitive than anything
> monolithic like lmms or rosegarden.
> I had a look at those and quickly returned to connecting seq24 with zyn,
> nekobee, ardour and others.
> just one opinion from one newcomer, there might be different kinds of them.
>
> > 'newcomer' level, of components that have to be conencted together.
> > It's just that it hasn't been done yet.  And as far a Linux is
> > concerned, and me, the inter-communication is not yet mature enough.
> > Heck, I can't even get lash going on my FC6 x86_64 SMP machine, not to
> > mention which apps actually supports lash and to what extent.
>
> lash is on its way, and i am looking forward to the NEAR future when
> ingen, ardour, zyn, seq24, dssi, lv2 save their states with one click!
> it'll be a pleasure, and at that point linux audio will be absolutely
> newbie-ready, as well as musician-ready - IMHO far more than
> apple/windows, as many musicians are used to that interconnecting
> concept, and those migrating to linux from other platforms are by far
> not the only newcomers out there!
> (olpc -
>
>
> Until then we'll have fun compiling code and writing nice little scripts
> - still many musicians wont want to do this.
> that necessity at least led me to quite a bit of computer knowledge --
> me very grateful for that, now learning how to program to push things
> forward.

The problem with this approach is that all these processes and data-streams 
need mucho cpu power. My PIII clunker cannot handle, say, playing something 
into jack, routing through jamin. Running a similar plugin in the playing 
will work.

Of course, we can all afford the new quad-core wonders so the issue is mute.