24 Feb
2011
24 Feb
'11
4:23 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:02:21AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
i don't agree with you that its about a type of
music. it is about the
difference between some different ways of producing music, and not
just two of them. there are certainly approaches to making music that
are not well served by a DAW. but they are approaches to the
production of music, not kinds of music.
Well, 'type' or even 'a particular type' can refer to a leaf node
in the taxonomy or to a quite solid branch of it.
The are classes of music that depend on sequencing etc. in order to
be produced at all - that's why people involved in them want those
features in the first place. I don't think it's wrong to call this
'a particular type of music', the type is defined by its dependence
on those tools.
i think you're wrong. its not that a DAW
represents one particular
musical culture, it just reflects some cultures of music production
and not others.
Indeed, see above.
the notion that there is ever "one tool" for
a task as
incredibly varied as producing music is absurd. nobody with half a
brain suggests that any DAW can be that tool.
Then maybe the term 'DAW' is misnomer. I wouldn't call a tool
that can't do simple four point editing an 'audio workstation'.
The sad fact here is that Ardour probably has 99% of the code
required to do it. The final 1% is missing because the concept
doesn't exist in the mindset of the developers. And by that I
don't want to suggest they are too stupid for it (as some may
choose to interpret my words), but just that they are focussed
on a 'type', 'class', 'category' or whatever you may call it
of music that doesn't require it.
not to be mercenary about it, but the difference is
that if your needs
were that important and not being met by anything available to an
intolerable degree, you could (or some organization could) choose to
pay to have your needs met and not face any licensing/access issues in
doing so..
Well, I could pay or I could offer my time as a developer. During
the last five years I have several times offered to integrate decent
multichannel or AMB panning into Ardour, provided I could team up
with someone taking care of the GUI aspects (I'm a nitwit regarding
writing for GTK). Nothing has happened. I've arrived at the point
where it quite clear that if I want certain functionality I'll be
on my own to implement it.
Ciao,
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FA