A week or so ago I thought I'd canvas some opinion on what people might want from the spin. So I asked at the Rob Chapman guitar forums, Rob is probably best known for gear demos and lessons on youtube, and for starting a guitar company that makes collaboratively designed guitars. So these are people who are used to community participation, but not necessarily free software (though I probably skewed that a bit by using their geeks forum). Anyway, discussion seems to have finished, so here's the thread: http://www.robchapman.tv/forum/threads/fedora-jam-music-creation-collection.22427/ Not a whole lot of new ideas. There are a few people already using Linux for audio production and they are generally happy with what they already use, not very surprising as they probably wouldn't be using it if they weren't. However things that came up: 1. Hardware support. Not much we can do from a spin/music-list point of view to improve driver support, but worth having advice and links to the Alsa matrix visible somewhere. There is a lot of supported gear, but there are people like digitalscream who've got hardware which is unlikely to work. 2. Integration. Touched on, things need to work without too much setup. This is even more important since it seems the spin will be the starting point for people new to linux audio. It's not the primary goal of the music list effort (that's really the packaging that Brendan and others are doing), but it does serve as a showcase for that work. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
