20 Aug
2004
20 Aug
'04
11:26 p.m.
On Friday 20 August 2004 03:48 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
OT:
City of Long Beach parks dept. sound man back in the 90's had _two_ hearing
aids. I shit you not ;)
I'm
writing, because I think, that with one of your points you are
wrong. You said, that ecasound and cecilia (and perhaps you also meant
fluidsynth, csound...) aren't really interesting to pros. They are SO
DAMN Important to a few users (pros and nonpros) and they are specific to
linux in their design).
with much respect to julien, and much affection towards ardour/ksi, i
would point out that its essentially impossible to become a
professional audio engineer if you are sight-impaired precisely
because you cannot use protools. catch-22 situation, really.
there may be people who are sight-impaired who manage
to make a living
as an audio engineer, but i would guess that i could count them all on
the fingers of one hand.
It would be a more likely case of a self produced blind musician, but
Ray Charles is dead now (RIP), so we can scratch him off the list of
prospects.
therefore, i think that john's point is not affected by this
perspective. ecasound and cecilia are fine apps, and very powerful,
but their workflow model is completely different to what the people
who get paid to do audio engineering for a living are used to doing.
the fact that they are useful (essential!) to some groups of users
doesn't change the fact that they are not useful to other groups of
users.
--p
Bingo.
There is a cultural barrier. I like to say "Same shit, different haircut".
This is why I said "somewhat distorted perception of pro audio".
I don't care where you are, as long as there's electricity there's at least
one studio in a converted garage and a sound reenforcement company
run by a guy with a sharpie on a string and a leatherman, dressed in a
T-shirt, black sneakers, gym socks and black shorts.