Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux-Music and making a living...

--- Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan(a)starband.net> wrote: Apparently you travel the path of righteousness. That is righteous based on my chosen interpretation of the standards expressed in this statement--"I have yet to meet a musician worth listening to who's in it for the money." If we ever meet I can assume your music is worthy of a listen. You on the other hand will not be able to make any such assumptions about my music because I have yet to declare my motivations for being a song writer. Do you ever ponder how your music and life might change if you were fortunate or as it were unfortunate enough to become a heretic? I don't know about anyone else but it's concievable, according to my twisted interpretation, that I once again am enroute to hell and possibly with a fist full of songs that aren't worthy of a listen. I'd take up the fiddle and hope to jam with Charlie Daniels and the Devil but they probably wouldn't have me. I'm to beligerent/independent to sell my soul for any cause. I wonder where it ends. Will I jam with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Russell Hanaghan, Tom Hall, will I eat or be hungry, will I be ostrasized, lonely and extra warm for infinity. Having excersized my right of freedom, by not declaring my motivations, I encourage anyone to eye me for the stake. I'm ready to face that consequence. And I promise not to back out at the last minute. I imagine that the stated standard I'm twisting to H, E, Double Tooth Picks and back might endorse making a living from worthy art. No doubt a consequence of embracing art before money. Shoot me for being selfish and having fun before acknowleding an otherwise perfectly tenable perspective. I'm the sorriest SOB you know. With my pyscho babble rant running out of gas I've got just about enough content to produce the lyrics for another song. Albeit a bit late, for some, I excersize better judgement, cease the OT ranting and dismount the soapbox. ON TOPIC I've made my living as a producer and engineer who relies upon Ardour and JAMin exclusively for about three years. I cut my first album produced with Ardour in 2002ish. I agreed to do that album at a cut rate with the understanding that it would be produced with the unstable beta stage application Ardour. In 2002 anything but a rate reduction would have been abusive. I noticed someone mentioned competing with ProTools by cutting rates. Our business circumstances are all different but I haven't offered a cut rate because of Ardour since that first job and never will again. There's plenty of variables in that statement--my clients rely on me and couldn't care less than they do about the application. So I'm only addressing reliability. I admit that during my Linux stage I've lost one job because I don't run ProTools. Meanwhile, last nite, we scheduled an album production with an artist that purchased and produced his demo using a Digi 002. He wants to work in a real studio with ProTools. He's now excited about working in a real studio with Ardour and JAMin. I don't do alot of soft synth or sequencing work on commercial jobs but definitively can state based on personal experience that Linux Audio tools are perfectly reliable in my small commercial studio. I qualify that claim but only because a switch from any given platform to another is always non-trivial. I'm gonna have to shutup for about two weeks to make up for this outbreak, ron ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/