12 Oct
2003
12 Oct
'03
4:45 p.m.
Oh! I was very confused about that. I was sitting there thinking "what
does a giant particle accelerator have to do with Linux audio"? I'd
never heard of the SuperCollider audio synth project. That's what
happens when you spend all your time with a bunch of scientists. Thanks
for clearing that up.
Jan
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 13:02, Jonathan Segel wrote:
On Friday 10 October 2003 23:12, Jan Depner wrote:
You work on code for supercollider? Interesting. A close friend of
> mine was working on that before it got shut down. PhD in particle
> physics. Worked at Fermi Lab prior to that. He uses Linux now as do
> I. What, exactly, was your point?
oh no! I mean SuperCollider the music language app. look at
http://www.audiosynth.com
and help make the linux port of SC server!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/
as to my original point, it's mostly being summed up in the other
thread of mp3 vs. ogg etc...
Matthias writes:
Well spoken! I think this is not only related to ogg, it's related to most of
the technology in the linux audio scene. We need to show people that it can
actually be used to create great stuff.
IMPO Linux audio isn't ready for the average Windows/Mac-user, but there is
originally, I wrote to respond to questions regarding a lack of
prebuilt tools, a small user base, etc. I was giving my perspective
as an educated, experienced studio and computer music user, but
coming from the professional and academic worlds wherein we all used
Macintosh. My point was that I was excited by the prospect of
learning morel, being on the cutting edge, being in the community of
Linux users, but that, even as an experienced user, I was finding it
very very difficult to make the transition, but I thought it might be
intersting to understand why I was learning linux. The philosophizing
came in the form of questions like: "is it a good thing or a bad
thing to be an elite group of users?" "do linux audio users want to
exist as part of a specifically educated group or to make it useable
by joe-reason user?" basically pointing out that when you become so
far inside a specific knowledge base it is sometimes hard to see how
opaque it may appear from outside --cf. improv or avant-garde music
cliques...
I was just poking the hornet's nest, as usual. please don't take this
sort of response as complaining! I am really happy with the available
sounds and software and you can expect a note somewhere on any
releases i make from now on that linux was used.
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