8 Aug
2009
8 Aug
'09
2:49 p.m.
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 03:40 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Jens M
Andreasen<jens.andreasen(a)comhem.se> wrote:
I have met a lot of people into computer music over the years. I doubt
a single one of them would call themselves a "professional".
It's not 1975 anymore, recording things are used far, far more often by
"normal people" (musicians) than by Professional Recording
Engineers(R)(TM).
Either way, this line of thinking is nothing but an excuse. OK,
"professional" this and "professional" that. So what? Everything
should be unnecessarily difficult to set up and poorly built? Because
it's "professional"? No.
I call this nonsense EDD: excuse driven development. The world's
leading development methodology for creating garbage software.
-dr
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 20:10 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
I guess my thought was that people who want to use audio
professionally are less likely to make decisions based on what
requires the least effort, which seems to be the main bragging point
for OSX as well as the main complaint about Linux. How much do normal human beings need pro audio
production tools?
According to Apple marketing research, about 10% of perfectly normal
human beings plays an instrument - mostly either guitar or keyboard -
and would also like to use their PC as a home or portable recording
studio. This is the story behind why "GarageBand" is included in their
default application suite.
You could argue that that application is not "pro" or something, but it
is still the same infrastructure that ticks behind it as it is for other
audio applications, which is what is the point in this context.