Last Monday 13 September 2004 20:20, R Parker was like: > Russell, I'm curious why you choose to use Ardour > rather than Jack Rack for routing audio to effects. It > seems to me that Jack Rack might be a better choice > because it's designed to do what you need. Having just started to get my head round Ardour, I can understand exactly why anyone would choose it over Jack-Rack. J-R can be a bit of a resource hog and I find the interface bewildering. That's not a dis on Bob's excellent work, rather an affirmation of what a fine tool Ardour is. We all have different needs, I have personally found multitracking apps to be excellent LADSPA hosts, ecasound does equally well in a profoundly less intuitive manner. ;) I seem to be producing reasonable results with Ardour without reference to much reading matter at all, which is a first for a Linux-based application! Ron, thanks for taking the time to lay out these suggestions for writing documentation. As a non-programmer but capable writer, I am always looking for ways to contribute. Your comments have got me interested in Russell's article, particularly your clarification of the title - I previously thought it wasn't relevant to me, now I see that it's the very same mission that I've been pursuing for the last two years from a Debian perspective. I guess I may have something to contribute here then :) I've been a little busy Actually Making Music of late. I shall follow the previously posted link and report back here if I have anything to add. I do know one thing, having little money is no obstacle to owning a GNU/Linux DAW. :-) Every day I sit behind my computer I give happy thanks to the LADs and I look forward to being able to fully repay that debt of gratitude. cheers tim hall
