Re: [LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 17:56 +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> >>> Rui, Harry and many other developers care a lot about user feedback
> >>> too :). That's the good thing when using Linux audio. The chance to talk
> >>> to the developers of proprietary software is virtually zero.
> >>
> >> in this regard, you may want to distinguish between a company of 50000
> >> people like yamaha (steinberg), 3000 people like avid (protools) and
> >> companies like bitwig or cockos (each having about 3 developers).
> >
> > Ok, true and while some companies don't care about the averaged
> > customer, they care if you call them when working for another company.
> > When I worked for Brauner I could call some companies and they listened
> > to me, but they won't listen to me, when I call them privately. That's
> > not bad at all, since if you call company B while working for company A
> > the averaged user will benefit too. But if you talk to companies there
> > always is a communication chain, while for Linux audio we usually can
> > directly get in contact with the developers, that's a nice advantage.
>
> well, it is nice being able to talk to a dev, but it does not
> necessarily help: e.g. i once contacted a developer of some ladspa
> plugins that the filters get unstable, getting the wonderful answer
> like: i just implemented some textbook formular, i don't know what this
> kind of filter is and have no understanding about DSP ... of course he
> did not care about fixing bugs or making sure that fixes will make it
> into distributions ...

Hobby vs professional, the problem with Linux is, that one way is to
install all available plugs and another way is to install plugs you
know, that will be ok for your needs. IOW meta-packages could cause
serious issues ;).

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Received on Sun Apr 6 00:15:02 2014