> 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. > Certainly not my intent. They say bad humor is better than none. Perhaps not... >> 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
