On 02/07/2013 12:19 AM, david wrote: >> One could be a professional with/without skills and/or an hobbyist >> with/without skills, no matter who you are you need apps which doesn't >> turn sound engineer or a guitar player or composer into a *nix OS >> student. > > > I'm sorry, but if you're a professional, *you know how to use your > tools*. Would you hire a carpenter who didn't know which end of a > hammer to use for driving a nail, or hauled out a chainsaw for doing > some fine veneer work while building a cabinet? What would you think > of a guitarist who never learned to set up their Fancy Big Stomp Box > because of all those "technical" things like sustain or reverb, etc? > "I just want to make sounds! Why do I have to know the difference > between sustain and reverb? I should be able to get what I want > without having to do anything!" ;-) > Conversely, I know a couple of guitarists who have NO idea how to do a setup or neck adjustment on their guitar, and don't even own a soldering iron or even care to know how to fix a cable. -- --- My bands, CD projects, music, news, and pictures: http://www.lateralforce.com My blog, with commentary on a variety of things, including audio, mixing, equipment, etc, is at: http://audioandmore.wordpress.com Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch; und diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: 'Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.' - [Friedrich Nietzsche] _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
