Re: [LAU] (no subject)

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
alexandre.prokoudine@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

>
> Personally, I salute to people who think that e.g. client/server
> architecture of LinuxSampler is great and should be directly exposed
> to users. I'll never be half as cool. I'm a complete and utter bore
> who never gets any life. Unlike the sparkling minds of true UNIX gurus
> who get all the girls/boys, because talking about low-level stuff is
> so frigging sexy :)
>

i think this is a bit of dilemma.

there *are* users for whom this kind of separation is potentially or
actually very important. hiding such functionality is a lot easier than
adding it later, but is not always totally successful. if one is writing
software that might be used in situations outside the home/bedroom studio,
the considerations for what should and should not be exposed directly to
users get a lot more complex.

i am thinking here of robin's upcoming video timeline work for ardour3,
which also features an external server to handle generating keyframes. when
i asked about this he pointed out that in many professional workflows where
the video consists of uncompressed raw video, you don't have enough CPU
power to do both that and run ardour and/or there may be restrictions (from
people who make "the rules") on how easily you can move the data on a
random machine used for audio work. now of course, for the overwhelming
majority of users this feature is completely redundant (and hopefully for
those users, ardour starting said server in the background on their own
system will hide most of the ugliness). but i do think that those of us who
actually or hopefully interact with these sorts of professional scenarios
have quite a difficult task with this sort of thing, and its one where
apple have not (thus far) prepared a roadmap of "how to do it so that users
really don't get inconvenienced".

>
> Alexandre Prokoudine
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