[LAU] Subject: Albums under a label recorded and/or mixed with Linux

[James Morris]

On 25 September 2010 05:51, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, September 24, 2010 9:54 am, Folderol wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:35:22 -0700
>> Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess they're used to eye candy over there in closed software land.
>>> Hell, I liked Jamin too until Fons hipped me to the fact that it's a
>>> vocoder.
>>
>
>
> Just out of interest, when did this become a fact?
>
> IIRC Fons suggested the sc4 compressor algorithm was similar to a vocoder.
> Apart from the multiband parametric, limiter and overall ui development
> that are also part of the jamin experience, I have never heard anything
> coming out of jamin that sounds remotely like a vocoder.
>
> I have also not heard of any other jack application that attempts to
> provide a complete mastering tool chain.
>
> So, I'm not sure why jamin is now to be considered passe.
>
> Of course if someone else actually wrote something that was comparable in
> functionality then I would be more than interested to hear the results.
>
> But until that time jamin still stands as the only tool in it's class that
> I know of.
>


has development stopped because the devs just found other things they
preferred to work on or were there good reasons to stop development of
it?

james.