Last Sunday 10 July 2005 18:07, Florin Andrei was like: > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 17:41 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > Thanks again for your work on Specimen. It continues to be > > > one of the very few "Linux audio" programs that I actually > > > find useful. > > > > waht about all the other applications around? Do you not need > > them or is it too difficult to use them? > > > > There are several very useful programs, so I wonder why only > > Specimen (cool app, BTW) appears useful to you. What about > > Ardour, Zyn, MusE, Rosegarden, ...? > > I think I can see what Dave is saying. > It's not like Specimen is extraordinary (but it is extraordinary) and > the rest are crap (they're definitely not crap). It's just that for a > certain type of tasks it's pretty much the best kid on the block: > analytically playing one sample only. Yeah, I didn't feel that Dave was slagging any other applications. Maybe using a rather narrow definition of 'useful'. If I want to use samples, I'm going to look at specimen first. If specimen doesn't do what I want, then I might consider using one of the more complex applications. I think Pete deserves some kudos for his work and this should not be seen as any slight on the great work going on in other departments. cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk