24 Feb
2011
24 Feb
'11
1:39 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp(a)gjcp.net> wrote:
What happened to the idea of doing one thing, and
doing it well? I'm
not even totally sold on the idea of having the recorder and mixer in
the same app...
you probably want ayyi then. except ... oh well.
To that end, why has no-one managed to produce a PC
(by which I mean the
general case of modern personal computer, not x86/PCI cards/beige box
PC) sequencer that doesn't suck overweight elephants through extremely
fine mesh? Cubase 3 on the Atari was simple, intuitive
... and couldn't do shit with audio sequencing. so shall we move on?
cannot be beyond the wit of man to come up with
something as good as
20-year-old software on hardware a million times as fast?
what is beyond the wit of man is to define the meaning of "as good" in
a context where every neighbour has different intents and purposes.