[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 06:02:40PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> 
> > Your 'musician' seems to be one for whom everything
> > has to be prepared before and easy, so the only thing
> > that remains to be done is some clicking on a screen.
> > And then think him/herself a musician just as the
> > kids wasting their time with shoot-and-kill games
> > imagine they are soldiers.
> >
> > Your 'musician' is in fact just cannon fodder for
> > an industry that is about making fast money and little
> > else. And he wouldn't even be able to exist without
> > the efforts of those who can rightly call themselves
> > musicians and be proud of it.
> 
> For some reason the Linux community tends to promote radical views
> without the need to resort to the "golden middle", as seen above.

What you quote was a reaction to a 'radical view' without
any motivation. And to make your point you deleted the
motivation I provided for my 'radical view'.

The 'golden middle' is a device invented by politicians
for their own purposes. It usually amounts to condoning 
mediocrity.

> Moreover, not producing any sound by default from MIDI data is exactly
> the problem that Rosegarden specifically had to address in the _FAQ_
> (not even actual features). And Qtractor doesn't make it a lot easier
> either.
> 
> Don't you see what's wrong with this picture?

I very much prefer just having to wire up the synth I want to
having to remove the one I don't want first.
 
> People just give up.

Little is lost on someone who gives up so easily. Except maybe
sales. 

Ciao,

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