7 Feb
2013
7 Feb
'13
2:16 a.m.
Assuming this an open question, I'll share my
thoughts...
I love Linux audio for its ideology and the huge efforts of its contributors
(something beyond my capabilities). But I do find I'm constantly' battling
against the elements'.
... that's the point -Linux audio's stability varies from system to
system and that's the only negative thing about it compared to corporate
OS/Audio.
windows is EXACTLY the same. some systems just work, some need
moderate tweaking, some require constant fighting with software/hardware.
The majority of linux audio apps are such a mess to
work with for the
majority of, let's say, pure musicians which in turn are not interested
at all in learning an OS to play music with a usb keyboard throug
Qsynth, record things with Ardour, use Guitarix, configure a soundcard,
etc etc... that's all.
in the same time, many of them are able and willing to
do VERY complex
and special magic with cracked windows software to make it work :))))
in fact, it is NOT easier than making average linux system to work.
the motivation is the difference.
usually it means to leech a thousand
instruments/plugins from the
internet, fiddling around for them for some time, getting bored, having
no real idea of what you want your *artistic creation* to be, thinking
that the coolest compressor, not practising over and over, will give
you a good voice, thinking that the latest guitar FX will make your
crappy guitar playing gorgeous...
All of this in 90 % cases to come up with a '4 chord song' which
is just the remake of all other 4-chord songs out there. the cycle repeats.
but
there's one fundamental thing behind that.
people want to have endless opportunities to pick some another cool
thing that does some kind of fancy multimedia show.
that's about how the whole modern economics works.
See, here is where expectations/assumptions are what
leads to claims of
"linux audio sucks." First off, expecting a "clone" of a Windows
application is unrealistic for many reasons
but the whole linux-on-desktop thing
(and linux-on-DAW in particular) works
just like cloning the (un)natural monopolist for decades!!11
to speak about audio production, critical mass of people involved to
audio production believes that ableton+VST is the only possible &
acceptable paradigm nowadays, so it should be cloned everyphere.
as for me, i like linux because it's very easy to make it to be totally
different... but who cares? :)
and in general, linux audio suxx because very few people can answer
one very basic question: «why linux audio?»
p.s. and very few people can even imagine how much of their hardware
run linux inside :))))))
7 Feb
7 Feb
2:28 a.m.
New subject: So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?
Shell scripts are better than batch files, especially
given the rich tool set that comes with Linux. As to the
question below, my answer is "why not?"
On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 03:15 +0200, cunnilinux himself wrote:
Assuming this
an open question, I'll share my thoughts...
I love Linux audio for its ideology and the huge efforts of its contributors
(something beyond my capabilities). But I do find I'm constantly' battling
against the elements'.
... that's the point -Linux audio's stability varies from system to
system and that's the only negative thing about it compared to corporate
OS/Audio.
windows is EXACTLY the same. some systems just work, some need
moderate tweaking, some require constant fighting with software/hardware.
The majority of linux audio apps are such a mess
to work with for the
majority of, let's say, pure musicians which in turn are not interested
at all in learning an OS to play music with a usb keyboard throug
Qsynth, record things with Ardour, use Guitarix, configure a soundcard,
etc etc... that's all.
in the same time, many of them are able and willing to
do VERY complex
and special magic with cracked windows software to make it work :))))
in fact, it is NOT easier than making average linux system to work.
the motivation is the difference.
usually it means to leech a thousand
instruments/plugins from the
internet, fiddling around for them for some time, getting bored, having
no real idea of what you want your *artistic creation* to be, thinking
that the coolest compressor, not practising over and over, will give
you a good voice, thinking that the latest guitar FX will make your
crappy guitar playing gorgeous...
All of this in 90 % cases to come up with a '4 chord song' which
is just the remake of all other 4-chord songs out there. the cycle repeats.
but
there's one fundamental thing behind that.
people want to have endless opportunities to pick some another cool
thing that does some kind of fancy multimedia show.
that's about how the whole modern economics works.
See, here is where expectations/assumptions are
what leads to claims of
"linux audio sucks." First off, expecting a "clone" of a Windows
application is unrealistic for many reasons
but the whole linux-on-desktop thing
(and linux-on-DAW in particular) works
just like cloning the (un)natural monopolist for decades!!11
to speak about audio production, critical mass of people involved to
audio production believes that ableton+VST is the only possible &
acceptable paradigm nowadays, so it should be cloned everyphere.
as for me, i like linux because it's very easy to make it to be totally
different... but who cares? :)
and in general, linux audio suxx because very few people can answer
one very basic question: «why linux audio?»
p.s. and very few people can even imagine how much of their hardware
run linux inside :))))))
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