[LAU] bitwig announcement

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:

> What if you're a user in the first place? A user that likes to talk about
> his favorite software? A user that likes to exchange experiences, to help
> out others and having to find out that becomes more and more pointless? It
> would most certainly help focusing on making music, that I'll admit, but
> what if there's nobody to share it with or only a LAU mailinglist with
> people using either Renoise, Bitwig, Mixbus or EnergyXT (<ironic mode />,
> I'm exaggarating of course)?

Then it means that the free software experiment failed, and the
community wasn't able to produce contemporary software that resonates
with people's needs.

> Linux audio is also a community with users and
> there are quite a few of those users that mainly stick around because of
> that community. It would be a shame if such users would abandon the
> community.

The linux audio community currently lives its own life for the most
part, and doesn't make a terrible lot of PR for what it can do. Where
I live we call this "stewing in your own juice" (literal translation).
Albeit I do see e.g. more interesting dedicated blogs lately (Nick
Bailey's, for instance).

> I'm not worried about the devs, not in the least. Sometimes it seems there
> are more developpers and applications out there than people who actually use
> those applications and make music with it. That's the scary bit, the users.

Agreed :)

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org