[LAU] What I learned from Bitwig

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Apr 3 19:34:01 UTC 2014


On 04/03/2014 03:56 AM, Aurélien Leblond wrote:
> I used Bitwig demo for 30 minutes - from the video presentations I
> found it looks like a tool that could really fit my workflow (I hope
> by saying that I'm not going to start another massive discussion about
> what is a real musician or not...).
>
> I just hope that these 2 cents would show why I decided to try the
> demo, why I didn't stick with it (and spent the 300 EURO) and why I wish I
> could have.
>
>
> --== Why I tried the demo - because there are lots of videos of it on
> Youtube! ==--
>
> Trying software takes time - as Fons and others mentionned before,
> using music software to see if they fit what I want takes time and
> effort... And I admit, I'm lazy...and I like to spend my time at other
> things than trying software for hours to realise it is not what I
> want... So I checked demos on Youtube... In 10 minutes I can see a
> summary of what it can do, how is the workflow, how it sounds and I
> make a decision if I'm going to try it or not (please please not
> judgement here, and I can't really be the only one!).
> A colleague of mine who is an amateur musician (Windows) as well told
> me the last software he bought, he chose it because it had more
> Youtube tutorials than others (again, we can judge all we want that
> process, but that's the way people roll...).
>
> I have started to do that with ams-lv2 and other plugins that I have
> have worked on... 5-10 minutes video on youtube, takes me 2 to 3 hours
> to do (and I'm sure I'm going to get faster at it... or hope anyway)
> but I had a few friends comment that it gave them a good idea as to
> what can be done with Ingen and that they would like to try it (I'm
> sure with a gentle push I'll get one to install GNU Linux and try the
> audio suite!).
>
> So yeah... my first 0.66 cents... we should make more
> videos/demos/tutorials of our tools/workflow/sound to show case.

About learning via videos: Demos, OK. But how to do something specific 
with it? I've used products at my office that think online help should 
all be video. What a waste of time! I learn much faster from good 
documentation (another Achille's heel for a lot of Linux software. I'd 
rather have good documentation.

On my shiny new Haswell laptop, I can either have JACK running and do 
audio, or listen to the soundtrack of a YT video. In both cases, the 
only way the YT video runs is if I click on the video window and 
constantly move it around. Something to do with the 
"not-quite-there-yet" Haswell graphics support, I guess.

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David W. Jones
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