Oh! I was very confused about that. I was sitting there thinking "what does a giant particle accelerator have to do with Linux audio"? I'd never heard of the SuperCollider audio synth project. That's what happens when you spend all your time with a bunch of scientists. Thanks for clearing that up. Jan On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 13:02, Jonathan Segel wrote: > > > >On Friday 10 October 2003 23:12, Jan Depner wrote: > > You work on code for supercollider? Interesting. A close friend of > > > mine was working on that before it got shut down. PhD in particle > >> physics. Worked at Fermi Lab prior to that. He uses Linux now as do > > > I. What, exactly, was your point? > > oh no! I mean SuperCollider the music language app. look at > http://www.audiosynth.com > and help make the linux port of SC server! > http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/ > > as to my original point, it's mostly being summed up in the other > thread of mp3 vs. ogg etc... > > >Matthias writes: > >Well spoken! I think this is not only related to ogg, it's related to most of > >the technology in the linux audio scene. We need to show people that it can > >actually be used to create great stuff. > > > >IMPO Linux audio isn't ready for the average Windows/Mac-user, but there is > > > originally, I wrote to respond to questions regarding a lack of > prebuilt tools, a small user base, etc. I was giving my perspective > as an educated, experienced studio and computer music user, but > coming from the professional and academic worlds wherein we all used > Macintosh. My point was that I was excited by the prospect of > learning morel, being on the cutting edge, being in the community of > Linux users, but that, even as an experienced user, I was finding it > very very difficult to make the transition, but I thought it might be > intersting to understand why I was learning linux. The philosophizing > came in the form of questions like: "is it a good thing or a bad > thing to be an elite group of users?" "do linux audio users want to > exist as part of a specifically educated group or to make it useable > by joe-reason user?" basically pointing out that when you become so > far inside a specific knowledge base it is sometimes hard to see how > opaque it may appear from outside --cf. improv or avant-garde music > cliques... > > I was just poking the hornet's nest, as usual. please don't take this > sort of response as complaining! I am really happy with the available > sounds and software and you can expect a note somewhere on any > releases i make from now on that linux was used. > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > Jonathan Segel -- MAGNETIC -- PO Box 460816 S.F. CA. 94146-0816 > 4014 Brookdale Ave. Oakland, CA 94619 > jsegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <-----> magsatellite@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.MagneticMotorworks.com > tel (510) 534 7825 cell (510) 484 7415 fax (425) 955 4495 >
