I think some names have more positive points than others.
"Fruity Loops" to me always was a way of saying "you can make music with
loops and we have a sens of humor" to the users.
Picking a name a marketing and public-relation related decision. - FL has a
strawberry as it's logo and that is present all around the program - the
name defines it's character.
If we were to call our program "Icy Tracks" - we'd need to go with a
frozen-water look to make this name sensible and memorable for it's users.
"Music Studio" I think is not the best choice, because it's not a unique
name. It's already a name of a whole class of programs. That's why "Gedit"
is better than "Editor" - searching for "Gedit" or "LMMS" gives you
immediately what you want, while searching for "Editor" or "Music Studio"
would give you too many results not connected to what you're searching for.
LMMS is a good name in this point, because it's unique, short and easy to
remember. However it's not perfectly easy on pronounciation, and the full
name has two misleading pieces of information out of total three:
Linux [ - ]
Multimedia [ - ]
Studio [ + ]
That's why there were trials to change the full name, while leaving the
abbreviation intact.
I think we can create a table with all names suggested - I could analyse
and count features of each name for good [ + ] and bad [ - ]. The names
with most points would then be selected for "final tournament".
Making a global voting could be a good idea - all in all it's the people
who have to like this name and think it's a good choice.
Alternatively we could leave this to the most noble among us, or the most
experienced with marketing.
2014/1/17 Emilio Coppola <[email protected]>
> Having this discussion is endless. There is no way we can all arive to a
> conclusion.
> I would call it to a vote (It's not fair but...) or we can let the guys
> who are working on design or marketing choose.
>
> To add some perspective: Imagine that we wanted to call our DAW Fruity
> loops. Most of us would say no. But hey, after all that time the name
> stuck, and it has nothing to do with music.
>
> Another alternative is being plain and call it "Music Studio" as some
> text programs are called "write". Simple as that.
>
>
> 2014/1/17 Tobiasz Karoń <[email protected]>
>
>> Could you explain what benefits do you see of having a descriptive name
>> (as opposed to a non-descriptive one)?
>>
>> I think that descriptive names tend to sound bad and boring, unless they
>> form a funny abbreviation (like "GIMP" or "GNU").
>>
>> Maybe it'd be a good direction to join both types:
>> Descriptive full name + Good sounding abbreviation.
>>
>> A recursive abbreviation is also a common thing in GNU/Linux World (*GNU
>> = GNU Not Unix* for example)
>>
>> My example and a new proposal:
>>
>> *BUSS *as in* BUSS Unison Sound Studio* (hidden meanings: BUZZ, mixer
>> BUS, a kiss (Urban Dictionary states so, that's not much wanted by me, but
>> I'm okay with it - reminds me of Love Making Music Studio proposal)
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/17 roberto giaconia <[email protected]>
>>
>>> I'm sorry to do it, but I insist on a name with a meaning. Something
>>> like the "OpenTracks Studio" I said before.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sam Duff <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>
>>> Yeah, I actually like the name for the new core engine too. Unison on
>>> it's own is awesome.
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Sam Duff
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Tobiasz Karoń <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > "Sound Dawn" ("SoDa" for short) maybe?
>>> > However my favorite is still "Unison Studio".
>>> >
>>> > On 16 Jan 2014 11:17, "Hannu Haahti" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I had this idea a long time ago.
>>> >>
>>> >> A DAW called Dawn.
>>> >>
>>> >> Has all the positive implications of a new beginning, possibilities,
>>> and
>>> >> such... no idea if it's taken though.
>>> >>
>>> >>
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