[LAU] EMail To Tascam - HARDCORE COLD HARD FACTS
Gerald Mwangi
gerald.mwangi at gmx.de
Thu Apr 12 21:56:58 UTC 2012
Well please be so polite to reply which companies are linux friendly. In
a calm, serene and polite/friendly fashion.
Thanx,
Gerald
On Do, 2012-04-12 at 17:42 -0400, Ronald Stewart wrote:
> wait are you saying Focusrite is Linux friendly? thats weird because I
> talked to the USA national rep about taking Dr. Dre's Beats laptop
> (actually Dre's laptop) to Guitar Center in Inglewood Ca. to plug in
> the saffire 6 I think its called (usb turd) to run a special version
> of Indamixx OS for Beats laptop and even the national rep couldnt
> confirm compatibility so we literally got in the car and went to GC to
> plug and play and NADA.
> Funny thing the rep never answered the phone again after we emailed
> him it didn't work... so if you got it going YOURE THE MAN cuz no one
> at focusrite could at least in USA as in the whole country of the
> united states :)
>
> "hehe" Nelson
>
> thnx
> Ron
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Gerald Mwangi <gerald.mwangi at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
> 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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