[LAU] Introduction to Ardour 3.0 MIDI

[rosea.grammostola]

On 03/26/2011 04:54 PM, Paul Coccoli wrote:
> 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?
>    
I do agree with all these comments.

Thanks anyway for the video!

\r