On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:34:44 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: >Why? I've never seen someone installing/removing software while >recording or mixing. It also sounds like a bad idea to me.
I agree that it is a bad idea, but decided yesterday not to reply to this thread and mention that it is a bad idea, because it could happen. This especially could happen, when using proprietary software, but not being rich, so the approach likely is to purchase software that time, when it's needed for the first time. In the days we used analog audio studios, it could happen that we left the studio, go by car to a music shop or friend, drove back and installed a new effect to the effect rack. There was no need to power off the gear. However, as long as it should be possible to save the state of a session done with computers, it should take less time to download and install new software and to restart the session or even to restart the computers, than to go by car to a music shop or friend and drive back. If possible I already would buy all the needed analog gear and install all the required software already before starting a recording session, but this strategy could suffer from not having the money to pay for everything that perhaps is needed, but not necessarily might be needed. As for free as in beer software the user should install everything that perhaps is needed, even if it shouldn't be necessarily needed, unfortunately not everything is for free as in beer. However, after a while we usually own all we need, so it doesn't happen that often in life. It's similar to a power outage. They already happened several times, but we usually can't remember when one happened the last time, but power outages do happen and it happens that a user needs to install new analog gear or new software during a session. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev