[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Hartmut Noack]

Am 31.03.2014 12:38, schrieb Harry van Haaren:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>wrote:
> 
>> But Csound and Supercollider are not suitable for making music.  They're
>> fine if you're some kind of autistic savant computer genius, but utterly
>> fucking useless if you're a musician.
>>
> 
> Lets keep "Use-case" in mind.
> 
> Bitwig contributes in to certain use case, for making music (geared towards
> electronic styles, although not solely those).

It works most easy when you are out for 4/4 stuff structured as common
in pop. But:

1.) play a few tracks free jazz or 12-tone style compositions and apply
some evil fantasy regarding sound and you have something that would be
considered "avantgarde" with bitwig the same as easy.

2.) with some basic effort you can turn the clip-matrix into a tool to
compose music more or less the same as singular as you can with Csound
and the likes

Yet to me it is in fact too easy. I'll stick with Ardour3, for I use the
in-track editing of regions most of the time and the tracks in Bitwig
are meant for recording music played by people, who learned how to stay
exactly in sync with a sequencer and to place loops on them that are
tailored for regular music.

> 
> CSound & SuperCollider contribute to a very different use-case.
> 
> Linux audio in general does not (IMO) offer a whole lot for the use-case of
> electro / radio styles of music, with software geared at ease of production
> of such music for musicians. Its a techie environment.
> 
> My 2 cents :) -Harry
> 
> 
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