On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, ttoine wrote:
In term of free software, yes, the offer is poor. But some great stuff are available: - Ardour - LMMS (equivalent of Fruity loops, not of Ableton Live) - Qtractor - Kdenlive - Cinerella - Blender - Gimp - Inkscape - Scribus - Some plugins are very good, some bad, let's highlight the good ones. Most of people have a lot of free and cracked plugins, but actually are using only a few ones. And even on Windows and Mac, plugins can make a sequencer crash, they are used to it.
Speaking only of the audio applications. One of the problems we have, is that the good apps in most cases need a running Jack. So the user who is trying things out finds that they are drawn to the poorer applications because they just start and work. Having a running jack from session start might turn some of this around.
- Do someone know if we could package and distribute Open AV apps ?
The licence is not bad (by debian standards), but the dev has no time to package or maintain a package. He is not the only one.
Those are not finished products, they are open source projects. However, it is possible to achieve the creation of great content when you know how to use them.
True.
On the non free software side, there are: - Mixbus - Lightworks - Bitwig (equivalent of Live, made by former Ableton employees) - Many people own licenses, and have hardware for that. We need to attract them with a simple and stable system. With a place where they can find documentation and support. - Let's highlight them !
That is good too. Some of the free/open projects are sponsored by the non-free ones. Pointing them out as a good idea and providing a good stable platform for them to run on is a great idea.
-- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net
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