On Tuesday 02 June 2009 09.11.41 Ken Restivo wrote: > Some words of wisdom from a local electronic musician: > > http://www.generalfuzz.net/blog/?p=486 > > He doesn't use Linux, but his point #2 is one of the nice side-effects of > Linux being off the beaten path: there isn't the distraction of entirely > new synths and plugins coming out every day. So it's easier to focus on the > tools that are already there. > > Of course, there's another problem replacing it: the potential distraction > of endlessly tweaking the system instead of making music on it. Great advices, and like his #1 too. As the matter of fact: I decided last fall to focus on #1 and #2 in order to be more productive. But I have to admit that I spend way to much time for tweaking the system and nosing on new apps and stuff. I was much more productive in the late seventies and in the eighties: I used to record guitars and vocals and bounce the tracks between two stereo compact cassette recorders. When I had a little more money, I got a 909, FB-01 , a JX8P (wonderful synth) and a KORG SQD-1 sequencer, but still into a compact cassette recorder or two. Not much of equipment and the record quality was poor - but it was more than enough for making demos and doing stuff. A local radio station in Oslo, where I lived at the time, was even playing 6-7 of my songs in a program in '88 or '89; still recorded with SQD-1 and cassette recorders. Even back then, the local radio stations did compress the music so hard that everything sounded like shit, so my equipment was sufficient for that too. Today, I have everything (and much more) I dreamed of thanks to the myriad of wonderful Linux audio apps and gizmos, but the productivity is like shit. It's time to concentrate on #1 and #2 and just make music. Thanks for pointing this out. :-) Jostein _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
