On 03/30/2014 03:10 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote:
It's true, the attention to workflow and needs of musicians of Bitwig
is impressive.
I'm sure I'll be aware even more of it's possibilities if someone
shows me what you can do in Bitwig exactly.
On the other hand, looking at Bitwig I'm not sure whether I should be
more impressed by Biwtig or by the achievements of the linuxuadio
community, of what is possible with Floss Linuxaudio already. And yes
impressed also by the technical infrastructure. I mean, what you get
from Bitwig is portaudio, that's almost a shame for a 300 euro app
from a linuxaudio-user pov. Also it lacks OSC, LADSPA, LV2 and NSM
support. Stuff you'll find in Ardour for instance.
Also the quality in sound(instruments/samples) they give you for your
300 euro, is not impressive for me, don't get fooled. But this seems
to be cultural thing, the acceptance of low quality sound.
My conclusion so far is that Bitwig gives you what Linuxaudio lack too
often, smooth workflow and 'completeness' of features. This is a major
thing for people who want to make music!
On the other hand, apart from very sophisticated features for making
beats etc., a lot could be possible with Linuxaudio tools or is
already possible today.
The challenge today is to make Linuxaudio tools more friendly and
complete for musicians and integrate them better with each other. With
metadata in JACK, NSM, OSC it should be possible to improve this more
and more. It would be nice to launch Non-Timeline in a NSM session
with Carla and control Carla by Non-Timeline via OSC for instance.
Oh and we need to improve and polish our MIDI sequencers on Linux
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