If you're a musician trying to learn Ableton or ProTools or SONAR -
chances are you know another musician who already knows how to use it.
So you can learn from them. Not so easy to find people that already know
Ardour, JACK, Zyn/Yoshimi, LinuxSampler, sooperlooper, etc.
Non-face-to-face learning resources (online in video or wiki or forum
formats) only go so far. Although at my office we've been able to use
chat clients effectively for office software and enterprise apps.
On 02/07/2013 11:22 PM, Gabbe Nord wrote:
I like the community and the helpfulness most. If some stereotyping is
allowed, Linux usually attracts enthusiastic technically capable users,
which is very good. Most people are really helpful, and there's just a
big satisfactory difference to be able to interact with whoever made the
application you're using. I'm also pretty fond of trying to solve
technical issues despite my lack of programmer background.
Now, this stuff works for ME. I've managed to set myself up with a
workflow that's working for my purposes. However, other people might be
less inclined to deal with the technical stuff, and just want to fairly
easily be able to make some music on a open source and free platform. I
hope that some day we can cater to them too. I do however mostly think
this lies on us users who're active in the community. It's not so much
that certain tools aren't around, or are unusable (exception possibly
being something like Ableton), I think it's mostly a lack of
documentation and tutorials that's the issue. And that
documentation/tutorials needs to be done by users, from a user
perspective, and not a developer perspective. We just need to show users
what can be done, and give them the general tools and skills to just get
going and doing what they want. It's not like windows/mac-musical
software is incredibly intuitive, the reason it's generally more
accessible is the fact that so many people use it and put up tutorials.
Oh, this might've been OT. Sorry about that. =/
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:39 AM, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 02/07/2013 02:27 AM, Brett McCoy wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:34 AM, cunnilinux himself
<cunnilinux@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cunnilinux@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
subj.
just interested about your POSITIVE motivation (if any).
i'm intended to write about mine own a bit later... ;)
jack
Lilypond
Rosegarden
Ardour
mplayer
Jamin
Did I mention jack?
+1.
+ Easy MIDI support.
+ USB sound support without having to install a driver (like my
UCA-202 requires if you want to use it with Windows XP).
+ How easy it is to install a program from my distro's repository,
or get adventurous and mix repositories. Or mix distros.
+ No 32-bit vs 64-bit compatibility issues.
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David
gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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