On 04/03/2014 03:56 AM, Aurélien Leblond wrote:
I used Bitwig demo for 30 minutes - from the video presentations I found it looks like a tool that could really fit my workflow (I hope by saying that I'm not going to start another massive discussion about what is a real musician or not...). I just hope that these 2 cents would show why I decided to try the demo, why I didn't stick with it (and spent the 300 EURO) and why I wish I could have. --== Why I tried the demo - because there are lots of videos of it on Youtube! ==-- Trying software takes time - as Fons and others mentionned before, using music software to see if they fit what I want takes time and effort... And I admit, I'm lazy...and I like to spend my time at other things than trying software for hours to realise it is not what I want... So I checked demos on Youtube... In 10 minutes I can see a summary of what it can do, how is the workflow, how it sounds and I make a decision if I'm going to try it or not (please please not judgement here, and I can't really be the only one!). A colleague of mine who is an amateur musician (Windows) as well told me the last software he bought, he chose it because it had more Youtube tutorials than others (again, we can judge all we want that process, but that's the way people roll...). I have started to do that with ams-lv2 and other plugins that I have have worked on... 5-10 minutes video on youtube, takes me 2 to 3 hours to do (and I'm sure I'm going to get faster at it... or hope anyway) but I had a few friends comment that it gave them a good idea as to what can be done with Ingen and that they would like to try it (I'm sure with a gentle push I'll get one to install GNU Linux and try the audio suite!). So yeah... my first 0.66 cents... we should make more videos/demos/tutorials of our tools/workflow/sound to show case.
About learning via videos: Demos, OK. But how to do something specific with it? I've used products at my office that think online help should all be video. What a waste of time! I learn much faster from good documentation (another Achille's heel for a lot of Linux software. I'd rather have good documentation.
On my shiny new Haswell laptop, I can either have JACK running and do audio, or listen to the soundtrack of a YT video. In both cases, the only way the YT video runs is if I click on the video window and constantly move it around. Something to do with the "not-quite-there-yet" Haswell graphics support, I guess.
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