[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[rosea.grammostola]

On 03/30/2014 03:10 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote:
>
> It's true, the attention to workflow and needs of musicians of Bitwig 
> is impressive.
> I'm sure I'll be aware even more of it's possibilities if someone 
> shows me what you can do in Bitwig exactly.
>
> On the other hand, looking at Bitwig I'm not sure whether I should be 
> more impressed by Biwtig or by the achievements of the linuxuadio 
> community, of what is possible with Floss Linuxaudio already. And yes 
> impressed also by the technical infrastructure. I mean, what you get 
> from Bitwig is portaudio, that's almost a shame for a 300 euro app 
> from a linuxaudio-user pov. Also it lacks OSC, LADSPA, LV2 and NSM 
> support. Stuff you'll find in Ardour for instance.
>
> Also the quality in sound(instruments/samples) they give you for your 
> 300 euro, is not impressive for me, don't get fooled. But this seems 
> to be cultural thing, the acceptance of low quality sound.
>
> My conclusion so far is that Bitwig gives you what Linuxaudio lack too 
> often, smooth workflow and 'completeness' of features. This is a major 
> thing for people who want to make music!
>
> On the other hand, apart from very sophisticated features for making 
> beats etc., a lot could be possible with Linuxaudio tools or is 
> already possible today.
>
> The challenge today is to make Linuxaudio tools more friendly and 
> complete for musicians and integrate them better with each other. With 
> metadata in JACK, NSM, OSC it should be possible to improve this more 
> and more. It would be nice to launch Non-Timeline in a NSM session 
> with Carla and control Carla by Non-Timeline via OSC for instance.

Oh and we need to improve and polish our MIDI sequencers on Linux