What I think is that this is great since there is less likelihood that someone else will be using the same tools I do and hence less likely will my music sound like thousands of others :-)
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer, multimedia sculptor, programmer, webmaster & computer consultant http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================ "To be is to do" - Socrates "To do is to be" - Sartre "Do be do be do" - Sinatra "I am" - God > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-audio-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Juan Linietsky > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 1:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-audio- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability > > I thought this may be of interest to the list. > In a k5 poll about usability of linux audio apps, > ( http://www.kuro5hin.org/poll/1023512126_OSelOkZS ) > So far, out of 38 answers the results are: > > -How do you like music software for Linux? > > 2 % - Great! It has everything I need. > > 13 % - Good, but i wish apps were more userfriendly (Like Reaktor or > SoundForge) > > 31 % - Could be better, I think the apps are not yet mature enough for > my needs. > > 15 % - It's unusable, the apps plain suck. > > 10 % - Dont care about composing on computers > > 26 % - Dont care about composing. > > ---- > > I think this raises some questions.. My feeling is that most people > aiming to write music on this OS is expecting to have apps with super > easy and intuitive interfaces, where you only go trough displays, > knobs, sliders and paintabe areas. > Why we dont have apps such as Reason, Reaktor, Sonar, Sound Forge, > etc? I dont mean full apps, but at least projects aiming for that kind > of thing. > We do have very powerful tools, but i have to admit that for most of > them we have to learn some script programming. > Do we lack good APIs? Alsa MIDI api is the best I have seen for it's > kind. Also, sould linux apps really take this windows approach of > making huge bloated interfaces with lots of eye candy, or should we > try to improve on making our apps intercommunicate between eachother, > while still giving some importance to ease of use? > > What do you think about this issue? > > > Juan Linietsky > > > > > > > > > > > > >
