On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips@woh.rr.com> wrote:
Greetings,
Just a pointer to articles I've written to date for the Linux Weekly News. Their policy is to reserve initial viewing for subscribers only, but afterwards the articles are publicly accessible. So, for the interested among ye :
A Brief Survey Of Linux Audio Session Managers (January 2013)
http://lwn.net/Articles/533594/
The Synthesizers Of Sean Bolton (December 2012)
http://lwn.net/Articles/527556/
21st Century Csound (November 2012)
http://lwn.net/Articles/523166/
A Tale Of Two Sequencers [harmonySeq and Softwerk] (October 2012)
http://lwn.net/Articles/520348/
Keeping Up With Kdenlive (September 2012)
http://lwn.net/Articles/516016/
The Linux Audio Workstation, parts 1 & 2 (August 2012)
http://lwn.net/Articles/509958/
http://lwn.net/Articles/510046/
A Survey Of Linux Audio Plugins (June 2012)
http://lwn.net/Articles/502183/
A Report From LAC2012 (May 2012)
http://lwn.net/Articles/495612/
Interesting to note how quickly things evolve in the Linux world. Stuff I wrote only a few months ago is already outdated by development trends. Keep up the good work, devs !
Anyway, enjoy, and your comments are welcome.
Best,
dp
Clearly, there remains a lot of work to be done on documentation of the Non project to prevent people from vastly underestimating the extent of its capabilities. However, it always strikes me that, even though the present documentation is brief and to the point, no one ever seems to read it. I wonder what makes features so much less 'secret' and 'hidden' in projects like Ardour... Apparently spelling them out in the documentation still too secretive. I'm sure this sounds critical, but now I'm being perfectly serious: It's helpful to how and why people have trouble finding information. The best way to have your questions answered is to ask, and I'm always available.
One actual criticism, though: This is partly my fault to due the unfortunate difficulty of naming things, but it isn't fair at all to compare Non-DAW (the program) to Ardour or QTractor and to say that Non-DAW doesn't support plugins, etc. It's a modular system. The whole suite comprises a DAW, while you refer to one component. Non-DAW should really be named Non-Non-Linear-Audio-Arranger or something, but that's hardly a catchy name and there's not much I can do about it now.
Still, thanks for the mention! I didn't know these articles ever existed until now.