On 09/01/2009 10:56 AM, Brett McCoy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Paul Davis<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Rui Nuno Capela<rncbc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> on my own confession, during lac2007 presentation, making a live clone >>> was indeed my initial goal for qtractor. it still is, as much of a >>> foundation it can be. >>> >> it might be worth you knowing that the heart of live is realtime >> granular (re)synthesis, all the time, everywhere (or at least it was a >> while ago). i suspect that you cannot do what live does without this >> as the basic model of audio output. i could be wrong. >> > I have to admit complete ignorance here, but what is it about Live > that makes it advantageous over DAWs like Ardour, Reaper, Sonar, Pro > Tools, etc? Is it primarily loop/clip/synth based rather than a hard > disk recorder/mixer like a traditional DAW? > That's part of it and it also has a very efficient user interface model that seems to be intuitive for a lot of people. it's not too "candy" to be a toy but it's not too hard to be threatening. Although I find that most people I know who use it do so because someone famous they know does and they want to make music similar to that person. They often complain about finding it time consuming to get their head around the complete system but as they are able to quickly make baby steps that is a big confidence builder and they feel it is worth the effort to understand the system if they can get close to emulating their musical heros. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd > -- Brett > ------------------------------------------------------------ > "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; > If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world." > -- Jelaleddin Rumi > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
