On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:02:21AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > i don't agree with you that its about a type of music. it is about the > difference between some different ways of producing music, and not > just two of them. there are certainly approaches to making music that > are not well served by a DAW. but they are approaches to the > production of music, not kinds of music.
Well, 'type' or even 'a particular type' can refer to a leaf node in the taxonomy or to a quite solid branch of it. The are classes of music that depend on sequencing etc. in order to be produced at all - that's why people involved in them want those features in the first place. I don't think it's wrong to call this 'a particular type of music', the type is defined by its dependence on those tools. > i think you're wrong. its not that a DAW represents one particular > musical culture, it just reflects some cultures of music production > and not others. Indeed, see above. > the notion that there is ever "one tool" for a task as > incredibly varied as producing music is absurd. nobody with half a > brain suggests that any DAW can be that tool. Then maybe the term 'DAW' is misnomer. I wouldn't call a tool that can't do simple four point editing an 'audio workstation'. The sad fact here is that Ardour probably has 99% of the code required to do it. The final 1% is missing because the concept doesn't exist in the mindset of the developers. And by that I don't want to suggest they are too stupid for it (as some may choose to interpret my words), but just that they are focussed on a 'type', 'class', 'category' or whatever you may call it of music that doesn't require it. > not to be mercenary about it, but the difference is that if your needs > were that important and not being met by anything available to an > intolerable degree, you could (or some organization could) choose to > pay to have your needs met and not face any licensing/access issues in > doing so.. Well, I could pay or I could offer my time as a developer. During the last five years I have several times offered to integrate decent multichannel or AMB panning into Ardour, provided I could team up with someone taking care of the GUI aspects (I'm a nitwit regarding writing for GTK). Nothing has happened. I've arrived at the point where it quite clear that if I want certain functionality I'll be on my own to implement it. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
