On 28/10/15 05:06, Paul Davis wrote: > I think the OP's point is that the constraints imposed by software > tools are sufficiently severe enough that it is difficult to break > out of the stylistic traps they set up. We could (usefully, perhaps) > debate whether this is true, and how those constraints compare to the > compositional strictures of the western canon, but it seems to me > that the basic point is at least debatable and might (just might) > even be true. No. I had no point, no judgements and no POV. Simply have a friend who put down her guitar and picked up a iPad, and now is a bit stuck (as the iPad Garage Band is designed to keep you in a walled garden, there is a POV!) I said she was... > beset by all the problems we all know of with such products I was referring to the "walled garden". I should have been clearer. I have given LMMS a whirl and I think it may work. I doubt it, which is no reflection on LMMS. Threads get a bit out of control on this list, aye? Worik -- Why is the legal status of chardonnay different to that of cannabis? root@xxxxxxxxx 021-1680650, (03) 4821804 Aotearoa (New Zealand) I voted for love _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user