16 Jan
2011
16 Jan
'11
6:24 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:28:48PM +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 1/14/11, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
I can't stand the whole idea of closed-source VSTs and plugins and synths.
Yeah, I'm one of THOSE guys.
Seriously, I'm using linux becuase of the freedom, the open source, and the political
aspect of it. That's why I run it. I wouldn't bother with it otherwise.
If I wanted to use proprietary, closed-source software, why would I even try to get it
running on Linux at all?
Taking this a bit father: if convenience, "user experience", time, availability,
commercial support, etc were REALLY important, why wouldn't I just get a MacBook Pro
like everyone else has, and run that?
-ken
Is that necessarily bad? Maybe there is a dearth
of quality native
plugins, but I'm fine with the plugins that are available currently. And
I'm happy I don't have to make up my mind which plugins to choose from
the thousands of plugins available if I would use a proprietary OS.
It's easy to neglect alternatives when you never had many :) We do
have a good selection of native effects, but we are lacking in well
sounding instruments immensively. But then we are back to "what kind
of music do you do" discussion.
The issue goes a little further than quantity/quality relationship.
Some things are plain missing. Luckily gaps are being slowly closed.
E.g. maybe in 2011 we will finally have an LV2 drum sampler (over to
gabaug? :))
Don't forget native Linux VST's, their
number is steadily growing also.
I think I have about 60 to 70 of those sitting on my harddrive.
Unfortunately there are very few hosts.
The last sentence quite nails it :)