12 Apr
2012
12 Apr
'12
11:57 p.m.
Well please be so polite to reply which companies are linux friendly. In
a calm, serene and polite/friendly fashion.
Thanx,
Gerald
On Do, 2012-04-12 at 17:42 -0400, Ronald Stewart wrote:
wait are you saying Focusrite is Linux friendly? thats
weird because I
talked to the USA national rep about taking Dr. Dre's Beats laptop
(actually Dre's laptop) to Guitar Center in Inglewood Ca. to plug in
the saffire 6 I think its called (usb turd) to run a special version
of Indamixx OS for Beats laptop and even the national rep couldnt
confirm compatibility so we literally got in the car and went to GC to
plug and play and NADA.
Funny thing the rep never answered the phone again after we emailed
him it didn't work... so if you got it going YOURE THE MAN cuz no one
at focusrite could at least in USA as in the whole country of the
united states :)
"hehe" Nelson
thnx
Ron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Gerald Mwangi <gerald.mwangi(a)gmx.de>
wrote:
Hi,
well the fact is: Even though searching the net extensively, I
don't know which companies are linux friendly (except
Focusrite).
So maybe an Idea is to put a list on linuxaudio.org . Or is it
there and I missed it?
Regards,
Gerald
On Do, 2012-04-12 at 21:15 +0200, thijs van severen wrote:
hey Ronald, having a bad day ? ;-))
2012/4/12 Ronald Stewart <ronaldjstewart(a)gmail.com>
maybe I got up on the wrong side of the bed today
but here is the cold hard facts and truth about the
musical instrument business and Linux Audio.
First, I have sat down with Tascam TOP DECISION
MAKERS for over 30 hours in 7 years with TOTAL FACE
TO FACE conversations
along with Alesis, Akai, M-Audio, AVID, and EVERY
OTHER manufacturer on EARTH!!!
Plus I have dealt with Guitar Center, Musicians
Friend, and SamAsh buyers for nearly 4 years.
Second, Tascam sucks and what you and ALL OTHERS WHO
WRITE THIS LONG FELT STORY ABOUT THE POTENTIAL of
Linux Audio users need to know
and DO is SUPPORT companies that do support Linux
Audio. I suggest Echo Audio because they work with
Linux and FFADO and others to make a great user
experience for
Linux Audio. There are others like Harrison, RME
(kinda) and some class compliant supported devices
Edirol, Lexicon, M-audio etc. that are Linux
friendly NOT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE but because of
the STEVE JOBS affect of Apple. In fact Linux is
not a priority and neither was Apple until the brute
force MARKET SHIFT in Apple lately.
Linux is 1% and Apple is at best 7% and the only
reason why ANY of these companies are working with
Apple is because you CANNOT get into an Apple store
or their ECOSYSTEM UNLESS you are class compliant.
Until 2 years ago companies like m-audio and all the
rest had their own driver mickey mouse way of making
things work.
Thank GOD that Apple finally kicked butt enough to
straighten out the musical instrument companies bot
because they are "great guys" but because of
MONEY!!!
Now you and everyone else can take this info as fact
or not. BUT and HOWEVER, I have spent tens of
thousands of dollars trying to build products in
Linux for Linux for YEARS!!!! With tens of
thousands of dollars spent I can tell you from my
checkbook and WALLET that I maybe moved the ball
from the one yard line to the nine yard line.
From experience just go with companies who care
about Linux and the user experience and who PUT
THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS!!!!
Support those programs, software, hardware etc.
instead of writing 'heartful letters' in hope of
response. I guarantee you that the decision makers
at these companies
ARE NOT THAT SMART in fact if they were Apple would
hire them. These 'others' are there because they
SUCK at their jobs and decision making abilities and
that is why
if you ever go to a trade show you will see that
companies like FILL IN THE BLANK do not make new and
cool stuff but wait for a GREAT product to come
along and then KNOCK IT OFF so that everyone else
benefits. The worst part of this is that users go
and buy their garbage keeping us in the INSANE LOOPS
OF CRAPPY STUFF THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXAMPLE the monome cool product with buttons and now
their are lame copies by ALL THE BIG BOYS and sadly
thats the one a lot of people buy to keep this
CRAPPY party going.
Period end of story.... if you thinnk you know
better then send me your receipts of all the money
you spent to challenge and debunk THIS HARD CORE
FACT!!!
BIG REQUEST can someone post this response somewhere
so every time this subject comes up I don't have to
keep spelling it out :)
Thank you
Ronald Stewart
Indamixx
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Gerald Mwangi
<gerald.mwangi(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Hi guys, I sent the following mail to TASCAM
(to the pre-sales information). Hope to move
something in their thinking.
Regards,
Gerald
Hello,
I'm deciding whether to buy the US-1800.
Since I run Linux (Ubuntu) with jack and
ardour (www.ardour.org ), I need to know if
the device is USB 2.0 audio class compliant
or if there are plans for a dedicated
driver. Or at least plans to publish
sufficient information to the linux audio
developers (linuxaudio.org). If nothing is
planned in that direction, I will switch to
the Firewire solutions from Focusrite, since
Focusrite actively supports the linux audio
developers! It's not that much work to
disclose some information. And you'll have
some 500+ linux musicians BUYING YOUR
PRODUCTS! Afterall, your a hardware vendor,
not a software vendor.
Regards,
Gerald Mwangi
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