Hi Paul Coccoli! > My comments: > 1. Get rid of the first 11 minutes (or put that in its own video). I > don't think and introduction to Ardour 3.0 should include talk about > distros, etc. I was certainly considering this. Does anyone know of a good JACK, ALSA and FFADO tutorial video I could've referenced instead? It is essential that the viewer understand what all these are before the rest of the tutorial makes a jot of sense. The majority of people who do understand any or all of what these are are all reading this now essentially and these are alien terms to the general public or even people experienced in recording on other platforms. > 2. I'd prefer to see an LV2 plugin as opposed to an external program > (like specimen). With a plugin, you keep Ardour on screen for the > entire video with the plugin's UI floating above it. With specimen, > you're switching windows and distracting from the goal of the video. If you can show me a multi-timbral, velocity sensitive, MIDI automatable LV2 softsynth or a LV2 sampler with integrated GUI to equal specimen both of which can save and restore their settings then I'd love to know about it. AFAIK no such thing exists or at least not in a fully working state yet. I say as much in the video plus doing it the way I did allowed me to demonstrate JACK session. > 3. If you do use specimen, have it running with a patch bank already > installed. Don't include a mini-specimen tutorial inside this video. > Ditto for Yoshimi and the jack-session stuff. I was aiming for an all inclusive video here- all except how to use the unix command line and covering general MIDI/ digital music concepts (ie what is a sample etc.). People coming from the Win or Mac world will be aware of what a sample is and what a MIDI note channel is but they won't know diddly about JACK session and how to route a JACK softsynth. > 4. I probably have a shorter attention span than most everyone on the > planet, but I'm at the 30 minute mark and you haven't played a single > note yet. Whilst I expected the most interest from members of LA*, my target audience was the person who has used $favemusicapp but never used a Linux music app, JACK and friends before. > > Maybe a series of shorter, more-specific videos would be good? > I may redo this video after Ardour 3.0 has had a stable release or two made. By that time I'd like to think that we will have a wider choice of LV2 softsynths including a softsynth (almost) as good as yoshimi and maybe composite will have an integrated LV2 gui by then or another LV2 sample player will have been released? I spent as little time explaining Yoshimi and specimen as possible- only showing and explaining the total bare minimum in both cases. Thanks for the feedback - its much appreciated! Dan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
