4 Apr
2014
4 Apr
'14
10:58 a.m.
well, it is
nice being able to talk to a dev, but it does not
necessarily help: e.g. i once contacted a developer of some ladspa
plugins that the filters get unstable, getting the wonderful answer
like: i just implemented some textbook formular, i don't know what this
kind of filter is and have no understanding about DSP ... of course he
did not care about fixing bugs or making sure that fixes will make it
into distributions ...
Where anyone can publish anything of course the user needs to do a fair
bit of work filtering the worthwhile from the useless. That takes quite
a lot of commitment and time as well as a deeper understanding the
field. It is much easier to let someone else choose for you (perhaps pay
them to do it), they'll give you something ready to use for the
situations they are catering for. But then you are stuck with their
notion of what is worthwhile, and whatever other agenda they have (e.g.
extracting ongoing profits from their users). I'll put the time in to
learn and choose myself, but it isn't quick or easy, just the way I
prefer to work, as much because it leads to that deeper understanding of
the field as anything else.