3 Aug
2011
3 Aug
'11
11:15 a.m.
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:02:26 +0200
Subject: Re: [LAU] An appeal to famous artists?
From: pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
To: simta(a)hotmail.com
CC: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
And if it is not intuitive for you then you might not want to learn how to
use it anyway. But that would change if Timberland or Kanye went on record
to say they had used xxx software to get that special sound in their
latest album. Highly unlikely though as they tend to use hardware anyway.
If a couple of big name DJ's started touring with Linux systems that might
make some people think twice.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
timbo+kanye both use plenty of software in their music. there aren't very many artists
on major labels that are all hardware guys. it is probably true that if you paid kanye
lots of cash to big up ardour then yeah lots of people would go give it a go, whether they
would stay with it or not is a different matter.
as for the dj's, well you'd be dragging them back into the stone age to give them
linux systems to tour with, some of the latest advances are mindblowing. serato and
ableton have created something called the bridge so that whilst using the digital vinyl
control system of serato you can also use that to control music clips within ableton. so a
loop you just created can be controlled with vinyl and mixed into any pre-existing tracks
you have. again big name dj endorsements would get people to check things out but unless
those programs are easy to get into+setup then people will demo them once and go back to
whatever they were using.
Hence I said "at best", meaning, in the
best case scenario some FOSS
tools may be functionally equivalent. I think the exception might be
JACK, as the case could be made that it is functionally superior to
any other inter-application audio and midi routing framework.
as good as JACK is, it's a little bit of a red herring.
JACK needs to be as good as it is for any linux audio to be worthwhile.
when you have lots of things doing seperate jobs then yes you need
something like JACK to be able to deal with it all.
proprietary music software such as cubase/ableton live/protools doesn't
need anything like that. pretty much everything needed to work is
available inside the main program or as a plugin opened inside the main
program. for anything else rewire suffices and rewire is a hell of a lot
easier to deal with than JACK, open the master program first then the
slave and rewire is automatically engaged and routing audio/midi between
both programs is available in the same way you would route tracks inside
the program.
so if you have someone used to being able to work in such a way then
they're going to find it very hard to adjust to a very different way of
working.
time spent learning a whole new way of working could potentially kill any
inspiration you have.