8 Aug
2009
8 Aug
'09
8:34 a.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
On 08/08/2009 08:10 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I do agree and I don't agree :D. A friend draws comics and now he makes
videos, to enable people to learn how to do this, he does it gratis. He
is amazed about the latency on an OS, not Linux, that needs a software
extension to be capable for real-time. He is not someone who knows any
thing about audio. Whatever OS he'll use, he would run into troubles. 1.
I told him to use Linux and when he would not like to do this, because
of some reasons, I 2. told him to install the needed extension for the
OS he is using and he even won't do this. People who has got an
interested in audio will learn and do more than non-audio people, but
there's a limit for artists, not because of the knowledge, but because
of the time.
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I don't think you read this about Linux per se. You will find this is
the case with some of the more immature software being distributed but
that happens on any platform. A lot of newbies will right of Linux
because they don't know how to make it work properly. There is
certainly a lot of information to understand before many things can be
done in the most efficient way possible. However that is the "problem"
with open source in general. In many ways it's about learning how to
fish not buying the fish. Apropos wasting resources. A lot of Linux audio
applications don't
have EQs by default for the channels of a mixer, we need to add 20
LADSPA EQs to 20 channels. There might be OS X and Windows
applications that come with an EQ by default for every added channel.
Do you think each time you add a new channel, they also add a copy of
the same EQ routine to the RAM or do you think one routine for the EQ
is shared by all channels, one after the other, but anyhow with
different EQ setting?
To be honest I don't know if LADSPA might be "intelligent" and does the
same or maybe on other OSs it isn't the way I suspect that it is, but
you very often can read, that Linux needs more resources, more RAM and
CPU speed to do less than is possible on other OSs.