Re: [LAU] chord in trackers

On Sat, 19 Apr 2014, Atte wrote: Speaking as a guitarist first... so sequencing is less interesting to me (though I do have an old DX7) than it might be to others. But I have an extremely tight budget. For many years my hardware has been what others have cast off... I have just not had the money to buy computer hardware, let alone a pricey OS (I did use a copy of OS/2 I actually paid for at one time) or even more pricey applications (which is what finally killed OS/2 for me). Things have gotten better and I am finally getting a replacement for my 10 plus year old P4. A xeon based system would be wonderful I am sure, but the cost is still too much. None of the MB out there seem to have PCI slots at all or much in the way of on board video. So besides the added expense of replacing my audio IF (One thing at a time please) at $500 plus I have everything else to get as well. So I have ordered an asus z87 board with 3 PCI slots (to give me some choice of irq) with an i5 processer. The only real difference I could see between the i5 and i7 is that the i7 has hyperthreading which I would have to turn off anyway. I did also look at the atom boards. There is a very nice 8 core atom out these days tha would probably run circles around what I am getting, but again nothing with pci slots... or enough of any slots, and the video is not there for a desktop. Atoms are made for notepads and servers. They work great headless. All that to say, I don't have the resources to try out comercial apps. SO I haven't. Ardour for me (even 2) has everything I need and I can't imagine needing something more. I have looked at other daws in Linux and just the time to learn to use them has been difficult to find. I did DL bitwig to try. It seems to work ok, but did not grab me with a "I gotta have this" feeling or anything. It was not enough for me to spend my time learning it. Quite honestly I had a sequencer program on my Atari mega2 way back before digital recording that was better than anything I have seen since (and it was shareware). Though to be honest some of that glow may have more to do with it being my first and memory dimming things :) Back then, midi was the only way I could do a drum track because the other 7 audio tracks on tape were required for other more important things. Even bass was recorded that way sometimes. So really, I use Linux audio first, because I can afford it. Second because every experience I have had with wondows has been bad or at least less than impressive. Win 3.1 against OS/2 2.1 then Linux against win 95, 98, ME, NT, xp, win7... apple stuff is just out of my range to even try. So it would be really easy for me to say FOSS is it, because that is about all I use, but the reality is that I would pay for sw if I felt it was better and I could afford it. The other reality is that FOSS SW does everything I need right now, gives me enough info to tune my system, and just works. Trying stuff that costs money just to try it, for me, and perhaps others, is just pie in the sky stuff. While demos try to be complete enough to try everything without giving the whole thing away, to really try something, I would need to do at least one (but probably more) project with it. I am not going to waste my time learning something that well where I can't save my work, so trying means buying. A demo just allows someone to figure out that something just won't work for them, not if it will work. So some of us are "handicapped" when it comes to commenting on commercial SW. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net