Hi all, So, erm, I've been keeping quiet since I didn't want to cause issues with people but I see the flamewar has ensued without me... :) So just a brief word on some issues mentioned: Yes, disregard for copyright is bad... It's far from the worst thing in the world though. :p And from a cause/effect perspective the impact of posting that remix could only be: A) people hate the artists now cz they associate them w that crap i made B) people become interested in those artists = good? C) people hear the track without knowing who the original artists are Really I don't see anything worse than (A) or (C) happening as a result of this. Maybe I'm missing something? This track was never intended for wide distribution in any case... Just some throw-away stuff.... :| I'm not trying to make a career out of this... :p I think it's upsetting that some-one like Ron would want to leave the list over one or two subscribers flagrant attitudes toward copyright... For his peace of mind, I have removed the material... WRT remixes as a form of musical expression, yes it's crummy, no it's not completely invalid, and no, it doesn't have to suck either.... > A problem is that "digital musicians" who violate copyrights as a rule > return nothing. That seems a very strange assumption to make: http://shitmat.adverse-camber.net/mp3/mixes/shitmat-redzeroradiomix.mp3 --- Enough of this banter --- --- And now for a completely different type of banter --- I still haven't managed to get GDAM (cvs version) to work (in terms of making sound when I play the turntables). Last release doesn't build, which seems to have been the case in Gentoo-land for a while. :\ Bit put off by the stagnancy of this project... Still investigating some other toys... Is anyone here using a sampler in Rosegarden? I've had issues getting it to talk to Chionic.... :( Not having a usable sampler has been my only gripe with Rosegarden... LMMS works, is rather nice, and is getting better, but I'm not ready to use it just yet... ;) PureData looks very interesting, if a bit complex: I'd like to investigate it thoroughly, dunno how much of an obstacle my n00bish'ness will be - I've just had to look up how to identify my ALSA MIDI devices (now hopefully I can actually make ALSA MIDI work this afternoon :p) - been using JACK MIDI until now, which is terribly easy. I don't really need anything terribly complex. on Windoze I was using SoundClub: http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/scwin/ which is super-simplistic slightly limited freeware, with some good results: http://subversion.za.org/binky/secret/ (all songs except 'notalldogs' made with SoundClub). Next post will be mind-blowing actual original linux music, promise. :p Best, Andrew
