14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
3:37 p.m.
On Thu, February 14, 2013 6:08 am, briandc wrote:
personally, I think the complaints (if referring to
those coming from
outside the world of linux) are mainly about either a) lack of apps, or b)
lack of "plug-and-play" capabilities.
As a linux user for the last few years (no programming experience either),
I
suppose it would be good to have things working "out-of-the-box" as best
as
possible. People don't like to fiddle around, even though I do..
I think to answer these questions well, one has to look at the linux audio
world for what it is without any comparison to another OS. There is a
trade off between flexibility and performance as compared to plug and play
ease. The trick is to provide the ease while still providing the tools for
the flexibility. Personally I want flexibility first.
Having more apps available would be good, of course.
The VST instruments for Windows are in the hundreds, whereas for linux
they're in the dozens. Of course, many of the VST instruments aren't
necessarily all that great, to the solution is probably not in the sheer
"number" of instruments available, but in the quality.
A small number of good tools is better than a large number of bad or even
unknown tools. The real question is not "do I wish I had tool x" but
rather "can I make music with what I have?" and "do I wish I could do
this". In other words it is not about a missing tool but missing
functionality.
A person who has no win/mac experience has a different set of wants I think.
Many people moving from another OS, just want the experience they had on
that OS to continue.
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Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net