Juan Linietsky wrote: > > 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: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
anyone home ? while it never hurts to discuss and improve userfriendlyness, a poll with 38 anonymous point-and-click opinions with stupid options is certainly not a very good reason to do so. -*- i'm just back from linuxtag, where we demo'ed some of the available audio software. to put it in a nutshell, it is *ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AMAZING* (expletive intentionally left in) how linux audio has prospered in the last year. hats off to all contributors. granted, i told more than one visiting musician who was only a casual computer user to keep his windows partition around for some time. but many said they would not mind to get their hands wet, nor to do things the unix way and use several applications to get a job done instead of one monolithic do-it-all monster. we showed ardour/jack to a radio engineer, who then dreamed about receiving mpeg streams over a dialup line in ardour (many local radios in germany get their stuff from a central location in that way). i said no and why would he want to do that, but then steve suggested to try alsaplayer with jack output... we couldn't get it to accept streams, but we used an mp3 file and it showed up in ardour. that guy almost fell over. although it did not quite work, he was really impressed that we could just glue things together in a way nobody had thought about before. :-D one evening after the gates had closed we did a session in our booth: one machine running a ladspa filternetwork on a microphone and various instruments (yeah canyon_delay!), a laptop with alsa-modular-synth that could be played with the keyboard (things really began to fly when matthias discovered his touchpad made an excellent ribbon controller), a real keyboard driving a softsynth on a third box which also ran a sequencer groove, and a number of audio guys improvising with a weird grin on their faces surrounded by some really out-to-lunch music... we're getting there.