Re: [linux-audio-user] i'm a graphic designer - use me! ;-)

I've used Reason on a Mac, and believe that emulating all those rack units is a macho thing that has little to do with making music and everything to do with the transfer of arcane knowledge. Why have a visual representation of a real patchbay when kaconnect does the same job in a way that anyone could understand, and with a minimum of resources used? Maybe audio apps that are straightforward will bring people to digital music production that have been too intimidated before. There's still a barrier between artists on the one hand, and engineers and producers on the other - that arcane knowledge again. I've heard that in the 1960's, few artists were allowed in the control room - Pink Floyd had to fight for the right to edit their own music at EMI. Now computers are ubiquitous in the first world, in theory any musician should be able to make their own CD - but I know from my own experience that many still don't know how. They imagine that they'd need to buy thousands of pounds worth of equipment, and then face the difficult task of learning it all - because they anticpate that computers aren't intuitive. Cheers Daniel