[LAU] FOSS DAW recommendations

Robin Gareus robin at gareus.org
Fri Nov 17 22:26:35 UTC 2017


On 11/17/2017 07:11 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Robert Edge <thumbknucklerocks at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er7OeIFALN8
> 
> Ah, so "(region name)/edit/make mono regions" does not actually edit the
> region.  Nor does it make it mono.  Nor does it create mono tracks.  But
> it adds two mono regions to the _region_ _list_ (which is rather
> inconspicuous and somewhere else on the screen, by default not at all)
> from where you can then fill newly created mono tracks.  It doesn't
> bother mentioning what it does in something akin to Emacs' echo area,
> though: "copied mono regions to region list" would have been a great
> hint.  It doesn't have some mouse-over help on "make mono regions"
> either.  You arr on your own guessing what happens.
> 
> Sorry, but that's _way_ worse in discoverability than current-day
> Emacs.  Certainly nothing you could _discover_ on a demo.  Either you
> know or you don't.
> 

Why even bother? just use the stereo panner and pan it all the way to
the left or right?

2c,
robin


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