Last Saturday 30 July 2005 18:01, Jan Depner was like: > On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 16:04, hanaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I want to know > > what makes you spend the time you do on this stuff so guys like me can > > pilfer legally and freely your hard works and then subsequently bitch at > > random about how it doesn't work! :) I understand the tongue in cheek-ness of this remark, but I think you've muddied the waters by using this analogy. > One of the reasons that I started working on JAMin with Steve, Jack, > et al is that I was using Ardour. I had tried to contribute to Ardour > at first but it was too far along in development for me to jump in and > easily get acclimated. I didn't have the time to spend to get up to > speed. I felt that I owed something back to the community (and Paul in > particular) for the work that had gone in to the applications that I was > able to "pilfer legally and freely". As far as playing nicely together > is concerned, that's why we used JACK. JAMin was actually designed to > be the mastering backend to Ardour. I have to admit that once I got > started working on JAMin it was a hell of a lot of fun ;-) It seems to > me that some of the best ideas come from those who "bitch at random". JAMin is a good example. I'm really impressed with the way it was developed collaboratively, starting from a discussion here & on LAD AFAIU. I like the fact that it's not a drop-in replacement for anything I've ever seen before (my experience of music software outside Linux is limited) I like what it does, the way it does it and I LOVE the way it looks. In fact, the only thing I don't like is its heavy use of resources on this machine, but I suspect that's a direct result of the sort of processing involved and I'm not expecting that to change. Soon I will own a computer that was made this century. Describing yourselves as those who "bitch at random" is self-deprecating to say the least. I'd like to see more projects happen this way. cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
