8 Oct
2003
8 Oct
'03
1:19 p.m.
Hi,
Wednesday 08 October 2003 16.40 skrev Mark Knecht:
I think you're probably right, although of the thousands I wouldn't venture
a guess as to how many of those are warez types. More than NI might want to
admit.
That said, Reaktor Session comes with 35-40 prebuilt instruments, and each
instrument has many sounds ready to go. It comes with a large library of
wave files built into the instruments, but they can be extracted and reused
elsewhere. I think the method to that madness is that NI creates enough
usability out of the box to get users really turned on to create more. Then
the library comes, which benefits all the users again.
I was going to reply to a previous message on this thread with the intention
of saying that the problem might be that there are no sites/channels where
one can share patches or similar in the linux audio world...
But after seeing the new layout of Noizefarm
http://devdsp.net/index.pl?main=noizefarm
I'd say this isn't an argument anymore... looks great!
It could probably do better in the advertisement area though... unless I was
the last one to know??
Even if we are fewer people in the linux-audio comunity I do think, especially
with our open source background, that we are very keen on sharing what we
create.
Another possibility is, of course, that nothing IS being created on any
grander scale, because the programs aren't production ready. I only have to
go to myself and my own trials at creating music in a linux environment and
all the hoops I have to hop through at the moment! It definately has some
truth to it.
> I think we Linux soft synth users should try to
make that happen.
Reaktor users == thousands
Linux softsynth users == dozens
Umm, maybe it's a numbers thing ??
== dp
I'd love to see that happen with one or more of the Linux tools. I simple
don't have the time or interest to become a programmer. When I turn on my
PC and try to write music I need tools that get me there faster. I don't
want to spend an hour grabbing blocks and wiring them together. By the time
I get that done I've lost my inspiration for making music.
I may be the odd man out around here. I'm not sure...
Unfortunately you still are.
Most of us would definately like that to change... and it probably is... but
it's happening slowly...
/Robert