On 2/24/11, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > It's a DAW. It shouldn't have *any* MIDI beyond control automation and > some idea of sync. Leave that to a sequencer.
I think I know your next argument: we don't need virtual instruments as plug-ins, eh? And while at that, let's dump lash/ladish crap altogether. Session management is for n00bs, real musicians have sound engineers to do it for them, so they can focus on actual music :) (On reflection, it provides a new dimension to my recent little visual joke about Dream Theater's approach to music: http://prokoudine.info/files/dream-theater.png (says "What's the rush?") Paul, how about visualization of little pixies doing JACK transport or pitch-shifting in A3? I know Gordon would love it :)) > Of course, there are no *usable* PC-based sequencers, so after gathering > dust for some ten years my 1/4" tape machine and Alesis MMT-8 are having > all the fun, and the PC just sits with pidgin, evolution and an ssh > session to my IRC client. Gordon, there's no shame admitting you make a good use of hardware for making music. We all did it, honestly. Some of us still do. Hardware is joy to use. > Linux audio is nowhere. There isn't a usable sample editor, there are a "Sample editor" as in "Swami" or "gigedit"? I wouldn't mind see them merged, actually. > It's 2011. I've been at this for a decade. It's just as bad as it was > when I started trying to use PCs for music. I give up. Giving up is easy. Patching A3 to remove offensive MIDI tracks so that the sight of the word "MIDI" in few parts of UI doesn't give the willies is a real task for a real man. Be a man, Gordon, control your software :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev