> Subject: Re: [LAU] An appeal to famous artists?
> From: pshirkey@boosthardware.com
> To: simta@hotmail.com
> CC: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
>
> >
> >> 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.
>
>
> 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.