On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 14:02, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > Ok, but bear in mind that at present and probably for several more years > I am not attempting to make music at all. I'm really just playing with > sounds to hear what might be possible. > .... lots of stuff snipped....... > Then, eventually I'll sit down to lay out a more structured > composition. For this final stage I agree that ardour will be a better > suited tool. Perhaps this last type of work is most like other people's > work flows. ok, thanks, eric. this clarifies what we're talking about here. the process of "playing with sounds" is something which i am also interested in and which is, for me, a task totally unsuited to a multitrack recorder/editor like ardour. there are lots of other linux tools for that sort of compositional exploration -- they are rich and varied, and that is precisely what i love about linux. when most people say "DAW", they are talking about an environment for production of audio recordings (i.e. serving the record/edit/master cycle somehow). the subject line and greg's original post led me down THAT particular path, perhaps mistakenly. anyway, i think we've come to an agreement (based on the paragraph quoted above) that, for an editing and assemblage situation, a tool with a workflow like ardour's is probably appropriate. this does not, of course, diminish the value of many, many other tools with different paradigms for creative, compositional activity. the record/edit/master process is, after all, a very specific and small subset of all the things people might want to do with sound. best- -p
