31 Mar
2014
31 Mar
'14
4:14 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 06:02:40PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen
wrote:
What you quote was a reaction to a 'radical view' without
any motivation. And to make your point you deleted the
motivation I provided for my 'radical view'.
The 'golden middle' is a device invented by politicians
for their own purposes. It usually amounts to condoning
mediocrity.
Your 'musician' seems to be one for whom
everything
has to be prepared before and easy, so the only thing
that remains to be done is some clicking on a screen.
And then think him/herself a musician just as the
kids wasting their time with shoot-and-kill games
imagine they are soldiers.
Your 'musician' is in fact just cannon fodder for
an industry that is about making fast money and little
else. And he wouldn't even be able to exist without
the efforts of those who can rightly call themselves
musicians and be proud of it.
For some reason the Linux community tends to promote radical views
without the need to resort to the "golden middle", as seen above. Moreover, not producing any sound by default from MIDI
data is exactly
the problem that Rosegarden specifically had to address in the _FAQ_
(not even actual features). And Qtractor doesn't make it a lot easier
either.
Don't you see what's wrong with this picture?
I very much prefer just having to wire up the synth I want to
having to remove the one I don't want first.
People just give up.
Little is lost on someone who gives up so easily. Except maybe
sales.
Ciao,
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