30 Sep
2004
30 Sep
'04
6:47 p.m.
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 14:02, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
Ok, but bear in mind that at present and probably for
several more years
I am not attempting to make music at all. I'm really just playing with
sounds to hear what might be possible.
.... lots of stuff snipped.......
Then, eventually I'll sit down to lay out a more
structured
composition. For this final stage I agree that ardour will be a better
suited tool. Perhaps this last type of work is most like other people's
work flows.
ok, thanks, eric. this clarifies what we're talking about here. the
process of "playing with sounds" is something which i am also interested
in and which is, for me, a task totally unsuited to a multitrack
recorder/editor like ardour. there are lots of other linux tools for
that sort of compositional exploration -- they are rich and varied, and
that is precisely what i love about linux. when most people say "DAW",
they are talking about an environment for production of audio recordings
(i.e. serving the record/edit/master cycle somehow). the subject line
and greg's original post led me down THAT particular path, perhaps
mistakenly. anyway, i think we've come to an agreement (based on the
paragraph quoted above) that, for an editing and assemblage situation, a
tool with a workflow like ardour's is probably appropriate. this does
not, of course, diminish the value of many, many other tools with
different paradigms for creative, compositional activity. the
record/edit/master process is, after all, a very specific and small
subset of all the things people might want to do with sound.
best-
-p