[LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

[Al Thompson]

On 02/07/2013 12:19 AM, david wrote:
>> One could be a professional with/without skills and/or an hobbyist
>> with/without skills, no matter who you are you need apps which doesn't
>> turn sound engineer or a guitar player or composer into a *nix OS
>> student.
>
>
> I'm sorry, but if you're a professional, *you know how to use your
> tools*. Would you hire a carpenter who didn't know which end of a
> hammer to use for driving a nail, or hauled out a chainsaw for doing
> some fine veneer work while building a cabinet? What would you think
> of a guitarist who never learned to set up their Fancy Big Stomp Box
> because of all those "technical" things like sustain or reverb, etc?
> "I just want to make sounds! Why do I have to know the difference
> between sustain and reverb? I should be able to get what I want
> without having to do anything!" ;-)
>

Conversely, I know a couple of guitarists who have NO idea how to do a
setup or neck adjustment on their guitar, and don't even own a soldering
iron or even care to know how to fix a cable.


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