5 Apr
2014
5 Apr
'14
4:18 p.m.
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 11:50:04PM +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
On Fri, April 4, 2014 8:59 pm, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
The sites and collections do exist even if no-one is paying for them.
If their curators don't care about the quality of the stuff they list
that is their choice.
It's not just filters oscillating. I've
seen delay lines blow
up, compressors going to infinite gain, and all sorts of things
producing loud bangs when connected, activated or coonfigured.
And those are just the potentially destructive 'features', we
are not even discussing basic processing quality.
Yet all this stuff gets distributed, listed on helpful websites
(look ! hundreds of plugins !), and nobody feels the need to
weed out the crap. Wonder why some people don't take Linux
Audio seriously ?
That's a strange argument to make. As far as I know there is no one paying
anyone to curate the penultimate collection of perfectly working open
source plugins. You also dissed several other audio plugin developers
in the process. We
all know where you were going with the comment but you have cast the net
pretty damn wide with this one. Almost like you are asking for punishment.
I didn't mention any names. The only time when I have done so
is on the dpl1 and at1 pages of my website.
I could add a few if I wanted. E.g. a four band parametric EQ
of which only the first section works, that can produce a peak
of +30 dB when you set if for a -10 dB shelf, and that has some
other problems as well. I wonder if the author ever tested it.
Ciao,
--
FA
A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia.
It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris
and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)