3 Aug
2011
3 Aug
'11
11:27 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
worthwhile.
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 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