On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:30:19PM -0400, Al Thompson wrote: > On 09/05/2013 04:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > An engineer want's to buy a mixer etc. and not a kernel. Known companies > > selling professional mixers don't advertise that they have Alps faders > > inside, this is done by companies who sell amateur mixers. > > Of course it is!! Professional grade companies use P&Gs! >From what I remember of the ads in e.g. Studio Sound during the heydays of big analog mixers, most of the big names used P&G, and that *was* as selling point. But there is indeed a very clear difference in how things are marketed to professionals, prosumers and amateurs, even if the first two seem to converge somewhat. If I see a plugin GUI with rack handles, screws, shiny surfaces, an agressive color scheme designed to stand out, big trademarks or any text yelling at me, an illogical layout or any non-functional graphics, I know that I shouldn't waste my time with it. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
