[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[rosea grammostola]

A software tool should make tasks easy, so you don't waste time on
cumbersome workflow, bugs and missing features, but focus that time and
energy on making music. This has nothing to do with the intellectual level
of the music or musician. It's probably just that proprietary software
projects have more money, working hours and better cooperation/teamwork and
better knowledge of GUI design to get this done.

Using software on Linux makes you pretty often loose time on bad workflow,
bad integration, bugs and missing features. The process of creativity or
producing your creative work, stucks in the middle too often. I guess this
is more true for MIDI then for audio (not surprisingly that Fons, Jorn,
Robin work mainly with the audio part and have little to complain).

One acoustic guitar can play smooth and gives you joy and satisfaction. An
other guitar can give you blisters, no good sound, it doesn't help you to
produce your creativity and is frustrating ...



On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier <
nettings at stackingdwarves.net> wrote:

> On 03/31/2014 04:56 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Robin Gareus wrote:
>>
>>  Don't you see what's wrong with this picture?
>>>>
>>>
>>> yes, using proprietary DAWs dumbs users down.
>>>
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I heard so few professionally composed and mixed pieces
>> done with Linux audio software that I can't possibly imagine where
>> this notion of intellectual superiority comes from.
>>
>
> the tools have nothing to do with the artistic quality of the outcome.
> (even though a large part of the music industry works by making people
> believe just that). all they can do is let you arrive at a good result more
> quickly or more easily, or inspire you to try new things. the problem with
> the latter is that many people will get inspired in pretty similar ways,
> and the result of that you can hear on the radio.
>
> i have worked on quite a few proprietary DAWs, and i still can't believe
> the fiery hoops they make me jump through.
>
> just this week i've had to decide to do a short film sound do-over on
> $PROPRIETARY_TOOL, because i can't import the EDL into ardour (yet), and
> manually syncing 75 clips is not an option (no timecode on location,
> unfortunately, and now all i have is an OMF file). i thought, hey, let's
> import the session and bounce it out with all regions expanded, so i can
> finish the job on ardour. alas, $PT decides to bail out halfway through the
> export with a totally unhelpful error message. sigh. now i'm stuck with it.
>
> latest brickwall i ran into is that $PT (after taking 10 years to support
> native audio hardware at all) has this totally arbitrary limit of 32
> channels of simultaneous native recording. you need more? buy the box. oh,
> you already have far superiour audio hardware and the studio is running
> dante? too bad. buy the box, and buy a dante bridge.
> right, that's the company which has been too stupid to get their
> accounting done properly for more than two years and got kicked out of
> NASDAQ for that. now that's two epic facepalms for the product that is
> responsible for most of the really professional content out there, whatever
> that means.
>
> which, to conclude this little rant, makes it very hard for me indeed to
> avoid that fuzzy feeling of intellectual superiority, even though i agree
> it is a bad habit.
>
>
>
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