[LAU] EMail To Tascam - HARDCORE COLD HARD FACTS

Dan MacDonald allcoms at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 07:30:51 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Ronald Stewart
<ronaldjstewart at gmail.com>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


Dr Dre's laptop? You mean you have the same model laptop as Dr Dre?
Otherwise, I had no idea you two were mates and that he is pro-Linux to the
point of lending you his laptop for demo purposes?


> 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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