Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability
From: Ivica Bukvic (ico_AT_fuse.net)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 08:41:44 EEST
What I think is that this is great since there is less likelihood that
someone else will be using the same tools I do and hence less likely
will my music sound like thousands of others :-)
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer, multimedia sculptor,
programmer, webmaster & computer consultant
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/
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> From: linux-audio-dev-admin_AT_music.columbia.edu
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> admin_AT_music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Juan Linietsky
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> dev_AT_music.columbia.edu
> Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability
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> 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:
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> -How do you like music software for Linux?
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> 2 % - Great! It has everything I need.
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> 13 % - Good, but i wish apps were more userfriendly (Like Reaktor or
> SoundForge)
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> 31 % - Could be better, I think the apps are not yet mature enough for
> my needs.
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> 15 % - It's unusable, the apps plain suck.
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> 10 % - Dont care about composing on computers
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> 26 % - Dont care about composing.
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> I think this raises some questions.. My feeling is that most people
> aiming to write music on this OS is expecting to have apps with super
> easy and intuitive interfaces, where you only go trough displays,
> knobs, sliders and paintabe areas.
> Why we dont have apps such as Reason, Reaktor, Sonar, Sound Forge,
> etc? I dont mean full apps, but at least projects aiming for that kind
> of thing.
> We do have very powerful tools, but i have to admit that for most of
> them we have to learn some script programming.
> Do we lack good APIs? Alsa MIDI api is the best I have seen for it's
> kind. Also, sould linux apps really take this windows approach of
> making huge bloated interfaces with lots of eye candy, or should we
> try to improve on making our apps intercommunicate between eachother,
> while still giving some importance to ease of use?
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> What do you think about this issue?
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