Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 11:01:54AM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: Musicians and sound engineers will have a different view on that. When I'm mixing, I *want* to know the values of e.g. equaliser parameters, for two reasons. First to be sure I'm not doing anything insane. Second, because that way I will learn the relation between the values and the resulting sound, and be able to do the same on different HW or SW without having to search blindly by twiddling the knobs. It's somewhat strange that musicians expect a sound engineer to have this sort of competence and complain if he/she takes too much time to find the right settings, but don't want to learn any of it themselves. Not even the wannabe sound engineers among them. Some time ago I was editing a long radio documentary. At some point we had to fix a badly recorded interview, so I launched an EQ/filter. On seeing the UI (knobs only), the director (an OSX user) said 'oh god, that's Linux, no graphical display or spectrum analyser, how are we going to adjust that thing'. I ignored his remark, set the EQ to what I knew was needed, and only then activated it. The result was right on spot. At that point I just said 'real sound engineers don't need toys'. He refrained from making more silly remarks for the rest of the production. Probably remembered that he came to me because he wasn't able to get things right himself. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)