Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

I second the frustration on a lack of user feedback... Michael ________________________________ From: Devin Anderson <surfacepatterns@email-addr-hidden> To: Dave Phillips <dlphillips@email-addr-hidden> Cc: linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden; linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ? Hi Dave, On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@email-addr-hidden> wrote: > Not enough native plugins, esp. instruments. I think this is one of the key problems with Linux audio.  Part of the problem is that there is no clear mechanism for (non-developer) users to create their own instruments.  Many VSTs are constructed with modular DSP programs like synthedit and flowstone (formerly synthmaker).  There's probably an opportunity here for Ingen or a new graphical DSP program based on Faust to fill this hole. In general, I think that Linux audio has a lot of tools that help users to create music, but not a lot of tools that help users create their own tools (e.g. instruments, plugins, sample libraries, etc.) to help others to create music. On the development side, I think Aurélien and others like him have the right idea in taking instruments/plugins that are specific to a Linux audio application and porting them to LV2.  There's a lot of awesome instruments that are specific to applications (e.g. ALSA Modular Synth, LMMS, etc.) that would generally be more useful if they were LV2 plugins. > Poor external/internal session management. Interacting with external hardware can be frustrating.  Commercial programs like Renoise account for external hardware in their workflows (e.g. latency management, MIDI clock, MMC, etc.).  Most Linux Audio apps don't do this. > Too much conflict/fragmentation within the development community. I've been trying to write something about conflict and fragmentation for the past 10 minutes.  I think this is a complex issue.  I'm not able to find the words to communicate about it right now. > So, in your honest and bold opinion as user and/or developer, what do we > lack most and what can we do without that we already have ? As a developer, I'm missing a couple things: 1.) User feedback. I can't stress this enough.  I watch the download counts increase on the applications I create, but I hardly ever get feedback.  I'm discouraged and frustrated by the lack of feedback. 2.) Non-code developers We have a lot of dedicated open source developers writing Linux audio apps, plugins, etc., but I have yet to meet an open source UI designer, or an open source graphic artist.  I think a lot of the apps we create could benefit from the feedback of a user interface experience expert. There's probably more, but these are the two things that occur to me now. Dave, this is an important topic.  Thanks for taking it on. -- Devin Anderson surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/ midisnoop - http://midisnoop.googlecode.com/ psinsights - http://psinsights.googlecode.com/ synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

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