[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Simon Wise]

On 04/04/14 02:56, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> well, it is nice being able to talk to a dev, but it does not
> necessarily help: e.g. i once contacted a developer of some ladspa
> plugins that the filters get unstable, getting the wonderful answer
> like: i just implemented some textbook formular, i don't know what this
> kind of filter is and have no understanding about DSP ... of course he
> did not care about fixing bugs or making sure that fixes will make it
> into distributions ...

Where anyone can publish anything of course the user needs to do a fair bit of 
work filtering the worthwhile from the useless. That takes quite a lot of 
commitment and time as well as a deeper understanding the field. It is much 
easier to let someone else choose for you (perhaps pay them to do it), they'll 
give you something ready to use for the situations they are catering for. But 
then you are stuck with their notion of what is worthwhile, and whatever other 
agenda they have (e.g. extracting ongoing profits from their users). I'll put 
the time in to learn and choose myself, but it isn't quick or easy, just the way 
I prefer to work, as much because it leads to that deeper understanding of the 
field as anything else.


Simon