Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] DAW Dillema -- Seeking Advice
From: Peter Lutek (plutek_AT_infinity.net)
Date: Thu Sep 30 2004 - 23:54:57 EEST
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 14:02, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> Ok, but bear in mind that at present and probably for several more years
> I am not attempting to make music at all. I'm really just playing with
> sounds to hear what might be possible.
> .... lots of stuff snipped.......
> Then, eventually I'll sit down to lay out a more structured
> composition. For this final stage I agree that ardour will be a better
> suited tool. Perhaps this last type of work is most like other people's
> work flows.
ok, thanks, eric. this clarifies what we're talking about here. the
process of "playing with sounds" is something which i am also interested
in and which is, for me, a task totally unsuited to a multitrack
recorder/editor like ardour. there are lots of other linux tools for
that sort of compositional exploration -- they are rich and varied, and
that is precisely what i love about linux. when most people say "DAW",
they are talking about an environment for production of audio recordings
(i.e. serving the record/edit/master cycle somehow). the subject line
and greg's original post led me down THAT particular path, perhaps
mistakenly. anyway, i think we've come to an agreement (based on the
paragraph quoted above) that, for an editing and assemblage situation, a
tool with a workflow like ardour's is probably appropriate. this does
not, of course, diminish the value of many, many other tools with
different paradigms for creative, compositional activity. the
record/edit/master process is, after all, a very specific and small
subset of all the things people might want to do with sound.
best-
-p
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