Hi! On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:19:54AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote : > Aurelien wrote: > >A video of Sebkha-Chott live performances in 2010. > > > > Excellent stuff ! > > Best, > > dp > I wanted to thank you Dave for that article in LinuxJournal, nice of you talk about us. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-audio-conference-2011-report-maynooth I just wanted to precise something, still, concerning production quality, not to argue about what we and our sound guys are able to do, but more about how free softwares might be used in an audio profesionnal context. First, let's forget about the quality of the videos, they come from rushes taken from several festival Sebkha-Chtot played in in several places, and neither the quality, nor the aspect ratio, interlace, and so on are the same on each of them, so it definitely wasn't possible to get a proper video quality, added to compression for youtube and other online streaming services using flash. Than, I just want to precise that the sound is pretty destroy by the conversion from 24 bits @ 48kHz to that mp3-or-whatever-thing demanded by those streaming services, and we did it (all wrong) using the video editor, don't ask me why... By the way, I'll try to put the sources and the real video with original sound on the web soon. And finally, just wanted to tell that we're several sound guys in the AMMD (label around Sebkha-Chott), and we were working before on proprietary solutions, like Nuendo, Logic, Cubase, ProTools, using Waves plugins, or Oxford maximizer, and so on. We're working for several years with GNU/Linux, and are perfectly satisfied with it. There's sometimes some tricky things to do to make some things work when you work with bleeding-egde softs, but: What you hear on this video, and on our productions is exactly what we want, or better said: it's exactly what we're able to do considering our own abilities, and the esthetic concepts that we work on. I might tell it again another way, to be sure what I write might be understood: we didin't feel any limitations by using free softwares instead of usual proprietary ones. It's even the opposite, we're managing sessions with a lot of tracks in bands like Sebkha-Chott, and GNU/Linux allows us to do that without fearing no to have the license restricted to 48 tracks or whatever (already lived this moment!). So, in my opinion (and I'm not the only one, by now), one can completely make audio profesionnal with GNU/Linux, it's much more a matter of hardware (mics, pres) than software, anyway. Still, it's just a technical point of view, you might find the sound production not good, but then it would be our fault and not softwares one! Concerning creation, so the synth, seq, and sampler part of the things, I just feel like I can do whatever I want with that modular approach due to jack than with any of the other solutions, including Ableton Live. And, as being a sound technician, especially monitor and stage guy, I'm pretty happy with the stability I can get from GNU/Linux compared to those poor guys I've seen rebooting 3 or 4 times their Mac OS or W$ at the beginning of the show because of I don't know what problem (soundcard not recognize, project not loaded, and so on), all of that after a soundcheck without any problem. OK, that's it, pretty long just to tell I and other guys in the AMMD are happy with our GNU/Linux machines for audio and video productions, and sound, video and lights management on stage. See you. -- Aurélien _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
