[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:15:43PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> 31 марта 2014 г. 22:50 пользователь "Will Godfrey" <
> willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> написал:
> 
> > Sorry. I don't recognise this scenario.
> >
> > I turn on the 'big switch' and computer, auxiliaries and amp power up in
> > sequence.
> > For a new composition I click on my yoshimi icon followed by the
> rosegarden one.
> > I select an instrument for yoshimi and play a few times then hit record on
> > rosegarden.
> > Switch both to track 2 and repeat. Repeat for 'n'.
> > Save both the yoshimi parameter set and the rosegarden file.
> >
> > To work on an existing track I simply click on the yoshimi and rosegarden
> files
> > to pull up the programs with the files loaded and ready to go.
> 
> I, however, recognize your scenario all too well. There's no night where I
> do not go to sleep without praying to lord to deliver me from the dark ages
> of linux audio where I needed to do extra jack connection plumbing and
> manually restoring presets :)
> 
> Alexandre

This is exactly why I gave up using computers for music.  Now my workflow is "turn on the S50 or W30 depending what mood I'm in, stick in a boot disk and wait 30 seconds, then get programming".

Until someone comes up with a sequencer that works and runs on a PC, I'll stick with that.

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