[LAU] bitwig announcement

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

On 01/15/2012 03:20 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> 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.

that's a bit painful to admit, but i share this attitude. if people want 
ableton and itunes, well, we can't do it (yet). that's what ableton and 
itunes is for.

at the same time, all the free audio software we have resonates with 
_my_ needs just fine :)
(and it seems to do the same for alexandre, judging by his numerous 
contributions...)

>> 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).

we have the same proverb in german. funny to hear it works in russian, 
too :)