Daniel James wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > >> Maintenance (care) is the name of the game. You need to calibrate, >> demagnetize, replace dry capacitors, corroded relays etc. all the time. >> > > True, maybe not 'all' the time if you are lucky. > > A case in point are those analogue mixing desks from the 80's and 90's > with built-in computer automation. The analogue part of the desk > probably still works, but you can't get any support for the software on > the computer (if that works at all). > > Cheers! > > Daniel >
I don't like that we are living in throwaway societies. To repair or just to care old analog and old digital equipment you need to get expensive survival kits, without any guarantee that this kits are ok. Regarding to the software, it doesn't matter if it's proprietary or FLOSS, one day your favourite software won't be supported any more. To do progress it might be ok, one day to scarp old and still good ideas, if new solutions are able to replace the old equipment. Unfortunately we often do bad steps, e.g. the record is replaced by the CD and the CD is replaced by MP3. If we listen to a record, played by good turn tables etc. and we do compare it with the MP3 version, we (most people) well be able to hear the loss for the sound quality. In Germany most people didn't notice that fresh milk, isn't fresh milk any more, but always too much heated, so that it doesn't taste as milk any more. This was done step by step. For music we do have heavy rotation. People turn on their radios (instead of enjoying silence sometimes), they don't like the music first, but after listening 20 times a day to the same loudness-war-autotune song, they like it. I fear for FLOSS a kind of religion, causing a similar effect. Cheers! Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
