[LAU] EMail To Tascam - HARDCORE COLD HARD FACTS
Gerald Mwangi
gerald.mwangi at gmx.de
Thu Apr 12 21:16:01 UTC 2012
Hi,
well the fact is: Even though searching the net extensively, I don't
know which companies are linux friendly (except Focusrite).
So maybe an Idea is to put a list on linuxaudio.org . Or is it there and
I missed it?
Regards,
Gerald
On Do, 2012-04-12 at 21:15 +0200, thijs van severen wrote:
> hey Ronald, having a bad day ? ;-))
>
>
> 2012/4/12 Ronald Stewart <ronaldjstewart at gmail.com>
>
> maybe I got up on the wrong side of the bed today but here is
> the cold hard facts and truth about the musical instrument
> business and Linux Audio.
>
> First, I have sat down with Tascam TOP DECISION MAKERS for
> over 30 hours in 7 years with TOTAL FACE TO FACE conversations
> along with Alesis, Akai, M-Audio, AVID, and EVERY OTHER
> manufacturer on EARTH!!!
> Plus I have dealt with Guitar Center, Musicians Friend, and
> SamAsh buyers for nearly 4 years.
>
> Second, Tascam sucks and what you and ALL OTHERS WHO WRITE
> THIS LONG FELT STORY ABOUT THE POTENTIAL of Linux Audio users
> need to know
> and DO is SUPPORT companies that do support Linux Audio. I
> suggest Echo Audio because they work with Linux and FFADO and
> others to make a great user experience for
> Linux Audio. There are others like Harrison, RME (kinda) and
> some class compliant supported devices Edirol, Lexicon,
> M-audio etc. that are Linux friendly NOT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO
> BE but because of the STEVE JOBS affect of Apple. In fact
> Linux is not a priority and neither was Apple until the brute
> force MARKET SHIFT in Apple lately.
> Linux is 1% and Apple is at best 7% and the only reason why
> ANY of these companies are working with Apple is because you
> CANNOT get into an Apple store or their ECOSYSTEM UNLESS you
> are class compliant. Until 2 years ago companies like m-audio
> and all the rest had their own driver mickey mouse way of
> making things work.
> Thank GOD that Apple finally kicked butt enough to straighten
> out the musical instrument companies bot because they are
> "great guys" but because of MONEY!!!
>
> Now you and everyone else can take this info as fact or not.
> BUT and HOWEVER, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars
> trying to build products in Linux for Linux for YEARS!!!!
> With tens of thousands of dollars spent I can tell you from my
> checkbook and WALLET that I maybe moved the ball from the one
> yard line to the nine yard line.
>
> From experience just go with companies who care about Linux
> and the user experience and who PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR
> MOUTH IS!!!!
> Support those programs, software, hardware etc. instead of
> writing 'heartful letters' in hope of response. I guarantee
> you that the decision makers at these companies
> ARE NOT THAT SMART in fact if they were Apple would hire them.
> These 'others' are there because they SUCK at their jobs and
> decision making abilities and that is why
> if you ever go to a trade show you will see that companies
> like FILL IN THE BLANK do not make new and cool stuff but wait
> for a GREAT product to come along and then KNOCK IT OFF so
> that everyone else benefits. The worst part of this is that
> users go and buy their garbage keeping us in the INSANE LOOPS
> OF CRAPPY STUFF THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> EXAMPLE the monome cool product with buttons and now their are
> lame copies by ALL THE BIG BOYS and sadly thats the one a lot
> of people buy to keep this CRAPPY party going.
>
> Period end of story.... if you thinnk you know better then
> send me your receipts of all the money you spent to challenge
> and debunk THIS HARD CORE FACT!!!
>
> BIG REQUEST can someone post this response somewhere so every
> time this subject comes up I don't have to keep spelling it
> out :)
>
> Thank you
>
> Ronald Stewart
> Indamixx
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Gerald Mwangi
> <gerald.mwangi at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi guys, I sent the following mail to TASCAM (to the
> pre-sales information). Hope to move something in
> their thinking.
> Regards,
> Gerald
>
>
> Hello,
> I'm deciding whether to buy the US-1800. Since I run
> Linux (Ubuntu) with jack and ardour (www.ardour.org ),
> I need to know if the device is USB 2.0 audio class
> compliant or if there are plans for a dedicated
> driver. Or at least plans to publish sufficient
> information to the linux audio developers
> (linuxaudio.org). If nothing is planned in that
> direction, I will switch to the Firewire solutions
> from Focusrite, since Focusrite actively supports the
> linux audio developers! It's not that much work to
> disclose some information. And you'll have some 500+
> linux musicians BUYING YOUR PRODUCTS! Afterall, your a
> hardware vendor, not a software vendor.
> Regards,
> Gerald Mwangi
>
>
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