[LAU] Introduction to Ardour 3.0 MIDI

[Paul Coccoli]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:40 AM, allcoms <allcoms at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Linux audio land!
>
> Here is my biggest contribution to the Ardour and Linux audio
> community yet to celebrate the recent public release of the Ardour 3
> alpha stage.
>
> Now that I've watched their (archive.org's) transcoding of my
> 'Introduction to Ardour 3.0 MIDI' video and had some initial positive
> feedback off the Ardour and AV Linux forums I feel its time I shared
> this with the list. Maybe I should've done this on LAA instead but I
> feel this is our primary list so..
>
> My eternal gratefulness to all the hard working devs and community
> members (nearly all present on this list I'd should imagine) who made
> this video possible!
>
> Thanks for watching!
>
> Dan(boid) MacDonald
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/Introduction_to_Ardour_3.0_MIDI

Thanks for this.

My comments:
1. Get rid of the first 11 minutes (or put that in its own video).  I
don't think and introduction to Ardour 3.0 should include talk about
distros, etc.
2. I'd prefer to see an LV2 plugin as opposed to an external program
(like specimen).  With a plugin, you keep Ardour on screen for the
entire video with the plugin's UI floating above it.  With specimen,
you're switching windows and distracting from the goal of the video.
3. If you do use specimen, have it running with a patch bank already
installed.  Don't include a mini-specimen tutorial inside this video.
Ditto for Yoshimi and the jack-session stuff.
4. I probably have a shorter attention span than most everyone on the
planet, but I'm at the 30 minute mark and you haven't played a single
note yet.

Maybe a series of shorter, more-specific videos would be good?