On Saturday 19 May 2007, David Adler wrote: > > I mean, what would a 'newcomer' do just after buying a DVD 5.1 system > > for his/her living room ? Would we immediately think that this person > > will be lost connecting it to his/her TV, as well as connecting the > > speakers and cable ? > > > > I think that the 'newcomer' stereotype is defined on the low side. And > > being defined that way, it does not push forward any notion that is not > > more complicated than connecting home theatre components together. > > i agree. To me, coming more from the hardware-side connecting tapedecs, > turntables mixers and effect-racks, not ever having used any audio > software before starting with linux three years ago, the concept of > interconnecting small apps is much more intuitive than anything > monolithic like lmms or rosegarden. > I had a look at those and quickly returned to connecting seq24 with zyn, > nekobee, ardour and others. > just one opinion from one newcomer, there might be different kinds of them. > > > 'newcomer' level, of components that have to be conencted together. > > It's just that it hasn't been done yet. And as far a Linux is > > concerned, and me, the inter-communication is not yet mature enough. > > Heck, I can't even get lash going on my FC6 x86_64 SMP machine, not to > > mention which apps actually supports lash and to what extent. > > lash is on its way, and i am looking forward to the NEAR future when > ingen, ardour, zyn, seq24, dssi, lv2 save their states with one click! > it'll be a pleasure, and at that point linux audio will be absolutely > newbie-ready, as well as musician-ready - IMHO far more than > apple/windows, as many musicians are used to that interconnecting > concept, and those migrating to linux from other platforms are by far > not the only newcomers out there! > (olpc - > > > Until then we'll have fun compiling code and writing nice little scripts > - still many musicians wont want to do this. > that necessity at least led me to quite a bit of computer knowledge -- > me very grateful for that, now learning how to program to push things > forward. The problem with this approach is that all these processes and data-streams need mucho cpu power. My PIII clunker cannot handle, say, playing something into jack, routing through jamin. Running a similar plugin in the playing will work. Of course, we can all afford the new quad-core wonders so the issue is mute. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
