Re: [LAU] lmms ?

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 22:27 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> On Saturday 19 May 2007, David Adler wrote:
> > > I mean, what would a 'newcomer' do just after buying a DVD 5.1 system
> > > for his/her living room ? Would we immediately think that this person
> > > will be lost connecting it to his/her TV, as well as connecting the
> > > speakers and cable ?
> > >
> > > I think that the 'newcomer' stereotype is defined on the low side. And
> > > being defined that way, it does not push forward any notion that is not
> > > more complicated than connecting home theatre components together.
> >
> > i agree. To me, coming more from the hardware-side connecting tapedecs,
> > turntables mixers and effect-racks, not ever having used any audio
> > software before starting with linux three years ago, the concept of
> > interconnecting small apps is much more intuitive than anything
> > monolithic like lmms or rosegarden.
> > I had a look at those and quickly returned to connecting seq24 with zyn,
> > nekobee, ardour and others.
> > just one opinion from one newcomer, there might be different kinds of them.
> >
> > > 'newcomer' level, of components that have to be conencted together.
> > > It's just that it hasn't been done yet. And as far a Linux is
> > > concerned, and me, the inter-communication is not yet mature enough.
> > > Heck, I can't even get lash going on my FC6 x86_64 SMP machine, not to
> > > mention which apps actually supports lash and to what extent.
> >
> > lash is on its way, and i am looking forward to the NEAR future when
> > ingen, ardour, zyn, seq24, dssi, lv2 save their states with one click!
> > it'll be a pleasure, and at that point linux audio will be absolutely
> > newbie-ready, as well as musician-ready - IMHO far more than
> > apple/windows, as many musicians are used to that interconnecting
> > concept, and those migrating to linux from other platforms are by far
> > not the only newcomers out there!
> > (olpc -
> >
> >
> > Until then we'll have fun compiling code and writing nice little scripts
> > - still many musicians wont want to do this.
> > that necessity at least led me to quite a bit of computer knowledge --
> > me very grateful for that, now learning how to program to push things
> > forward.
>
> The problem with this approach is that all these processes and data-streams
> need mucho cpu power. My PIII clunker cannot handle, say, playing something
> into jack, routing through jamin. Running a similar plugin in the playing
> will work.

Really? I thought context switching was pretty cheap on Linux,
especially compared to things like Jamin.

--ll

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