12 Oct
2003
12 Oct
'03
3:56 p.m.
What, exactly, do you mean by music that could be released by a major
label? That really has nothing to do with the tools used to record,
mix, and master the music. It has to do with the music and the
performers. It also has to do with how the song was mixed and
mastered. The tools are available in Linux to do this. I'm waiting for
Ron Parker to wade in on this subject since he is running a working
studio. Check out http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/gmc2.ogg. This
is sort of a blues tune. Bruce Iglauer at Alligator Records (largest
blues label in the world) liked it. I don't think he really cared what
it was recorded, mixed, or mastered on. Unfortunately, as with all
bands, that one folded due to it's own internal problems. If you want
to find some music done with Linux you need to check out Dave Phillips'
Linux Sound and MIDI page - http://linux-sound.org/. Specifically the
Linux Music On-line section.
Jan
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 10:15, Tim Orford wrote:
dont discount the large percentage of big budget releases that are
made not by the artist but by a producer in combination with an
engineer. There are many good producers and engineers who are fully
aware of what tools are available irrespective of what other people
use. Some of them will use linux when the tools do the job they require.
Most linux tools are not designed to be used in a commercial enviroment
where you are paying $1000/day for a studio. Some of them are not
far off tho.
personally it irks me that pros are no longer catered for by
commercial software as the user base is too small for it to be
profitable. Instead they are stuck with crap like Protools.
You need to
look around a bit more. Part of the fun is the journey to
get to the destination.
true.
but personally i find that there is such an *insanely* large amount of music
around that i dont have time to even listen to the obvious stuff, let
alone spent time searching out obscure stuff that may vary from great to
truely awful :-)
IMHO, until we produce at least a few examples of
music which could be
released by a major label, we simply will *not* be taken seriously.
How do you quantify this? If we are to take the recent discussions as a
vague example of the attitude people have towards open source sound or
linux audio, we are unlikely to ever hear that any major artist uses
tools created in/by this community. Have you noticed that nearly all the new movies
with any computer geek
has the geek using a form of x windows? It ain't running on a M$ or mac
setup.
I always enjoy that!
although the Enterprise 'computer', despite looking like the Ion wm,
is really a Director app i'm told :-)
cheers
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Tim Orford