> Assuming this an open question, I'll share my thoughts... > > I love Linux audio for its ideology and the huge efforts of its contributors > (something beyond my capabilities). But I do find I'm constantly' battling > against the elements'. > ... that's the point -Linux audio's stability varies from system to > system and that's the only negative thing about it compared to corporate > OS/Audio. windows is EXACTLY the same. some systems just work, some need moderate tweaking, some require constant fighting with software/hardware. > The majority of linux audio apps are such a mess to work with for the > majority of, let's say, pure musicians which in turn are not interested > at all in learning an OS to play music with a usb keyboard throug > Qsynth, record things with Ardour, use Guitarix, configure a soundcard, > etc etc... that's all. in the same time, many of them are able and willing to do VERY complex and special magic with cracked windows software to make it work :)))) in fact, it is NOT easier than making average linux system to work. the motivation is the difference. > usually it means to leech a thousand instruments/plugins from the > internet, fiddling around for them for some time, getting bored, having > no real idea of what you want your *artistic creation* to be, thinking > that the coolest compressor, not practising over and over, will give > you a good voice, thinking that the latest guitar FX will make your > crappy guitar playing gorgeous... > All of this in 90 % cases to come up with a '4 chord song' which > is just the remake of all other 4-chord songs out there. the cycle repeats. but there's one fundamental thing behind that. people want to have endless opportunities to pick some another cool thing that does some kind of fancy multimedia show. that's about how the whole modern economics works. > See, here is where expectations/assumptions are what leads to claims of > "linux audio sucks." First off, expecting a "clone" of a Windows > application is unrealistic for many reasons but the whole linux-on-desktop thing (and linux-on-DAW in particular) works just like cloning the (un)natural monopolist for decades!!11 to speak about audio production, critical mass of people involved to audio production believes that ableton+VST is the only possible & acceptable paradigm nowadays, so it should be cloned everyphere. as for me, i like linux because it's very easy to make it to be totally different... but who cares? :) and in general, linux audio suxx because very few people can answer one very basic question: «why linux audio?» p.s. and very few people can even imagine how much of their hardware run linux inside :)))))) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
