Re: [linux-audio-user] DAW Dillema -- Seeking Advice

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] DAW Dillema -- Seeking Advice
From: Greg Reddin (gtreddin_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 30 2004 - 16:39:27 EEST


--- Joe Hartley <jh_AT_brainiac.com> wrote:
> Well, Paul & co. don't have any sort of marketing or sales group
> pushing for a release date, so there are no artificial deadlines,
> so
> there's less liklihood of something pushed out as a release to make
> an
> arbitrary release date.

Well, I wouldn't want an artificial or arbitrary date either. But it
seems like when a project reaches 0.9beta19 and has been at 0.9betaX
for over a year, it could appear to onlookers (like me) that things
have somehow gone bad -- either the scope has spun out of control or
bugs are more difficult to fix or development is not moving very
fast. Again, that's the perception, not necessarily the reality.
But, since it is open source and releases don't matter much, maybe we
should drop the complicated release scheme altogether. Just release
1, 2, 3, 4... 49, 50, 51, etc. Or maybe give realeases a name
instead of a number. Really, it's not a big deal. People who are
familiar with open source methodologies will look at 0.9beta19 and
not be taken aback. But to me, it seems limiting to let it get that
far. Now that I'm listening to myself type, it seems like I'm making
a mountain out of a molehill.

> I'm surprised that you couldn't continue in Ardour at all, again,
> I've
> never had a project foul up badly enough to bring things to a halt
> like
> that. There was one time that I had to edit the XML file to remove
> a
> track that couldn't be loaded, but because the sessions are defined
> in XML, that was trivial to do.

Yeah, my transport just stopped working. I'd press "Play" and the
play button would highlight, but the cursor wouldn't move and no
sound would he heard. Then I'd press "Stop" and both play and stop
buttons were highlighted. By that time, I was too frustrated to try
and get the problem fixed, so I just imported the raw tracks into
Audacity and remixed them.

I forgot about the NumLock problem. I'm not sure if NumLock was on
or not.

> Maybe a little of both. It sounds like you might be in the wrong
> "mode"
> to do an operation; I found Ardour much easier to use once I'd
> grasped the
> concept of the object and range modes (which are selected by the
> buttons
> in the upper right of the editor window).

I've begun to understand the mode concept a bit, but it doesn't
always make sense.

I'm still going to take issue with the notion that "this is just
hard, complicated stuff, so the interface cannot be made intuitive."
Most of my experience is with Cakewalk/Sonar and I found it
relatively easy to use, though I did have to spend some time with the
doc early on. IMHO, Ardour makes some choices that make it more
difficult, at least for someone who is corrupted with a Windows
background :-)

Greg

                
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