[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 09:59 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:58:17AM +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> 
> > > Where anyone can publish anything of course the user needs to do a fair
> > > bit of work filtering the worthwhile from the useless.
> > 
> > replace 'useless' by 'broken' ... if you use have an unstable filter in
> > your fx chain, you could either destroy your speakers or even worse:
> > your ears.
> 
> or someone else's speakers or ears.
> 
> And having to do 'a fair bit of work' separating the crap from the
> usable isn't going to improve a potential user's workflow either,
> nor his first impression of what Linux Audio has to offer.
> 
> It's not just filters oscillating. I've seen delay lines blow
> up, compressors going to infinite gain, and all sorts of things 
> producing loud bangs when connected, activated or coonfigured.
> And those are just the potentially destructive 'features', we
> are not even discussing basic processing quality.
> 
> Yet all this stuff gets distributed, listed on helpful websites
> (look ! hundreds of plugins !), and nobody feels the need to
> weed out the crap. Wonder why some people don't take Linux
> Audio seriously ?

As already replied earlier, meta-packages, resp. packages that include
several effects are a PITA for this kind of software. Each effect should
get it's own package.