On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 06:02:40PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > Your 'musician' seems to be one for whom everything > > has to be prepared before and easy, so the only thing > > that remains to be done is some clicking on a screen. > > And then think him/herself a musician just as the > > kids wasting their time with shoot-and-kill games > > imagine they are soldiers. > > > > Your 'musician' is in fact just cannon fodder for > > an industry that is about making fast money and little > > else. And he wouldn't even be able to exist without > > the efforts of those who can rightly call themselves > > musicians and be proud of it. > > For some reason the Linux community tends to promote radical views > without the need to resort to the "golden middle", as seen above. What you quote was a reaction to a 'radical view' without any motivation. And to make your point you deleted the motivation I provided for my 'radical view'. The 'golden middle' is a device invented by politicians for their own purposes. It usually amounts to condoning mediocrity. > Moreover, not producing any sound by default from MIDI data is exactly > the problem that Rosegarden specifically had to address in the _FAQ_ > (not even actual features). And Qtractor doesn't make it a lot easier > either. > > Don't you see what's wrong with this picture? I very much prefer just having to wire up the synth I want to having to remove the one I don't want first. > People just give up. Little is lost on someone who gives up so easily. Except maybe sales. 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
