The big hurdle I think with Linux music is - well, you guessed it - drivers. Most pro-quality PCI sound cards work easy, I'll give it that, but the USB2.0 (note the 2.0) and Firewire interfaces, not so much... yet.
This is an issue with laptop users who want their DAWs mobile. Right now there isn't that much choice in external interface products. Sure you can get ALSA-supported firewire audio interfaces, but chances are, they're one of the high end models (expensive).
USB1.1 device support is easier, but expect large latencies recording two tracks at a time. The E-MU 0404 USB2.0 interface is perfect for the amateur musician, and if only it opens itself up for Linux devs to write drivers for. (Dammit, Creative!)
The idea behind a digital audio workstation is to reduce cost buy buying as few equipment as possible. Your computer acts as a black box which does the job of a mixer, effects processor, etc. with benefits such as: easy undos, virtually unlimited filters and effects through software plugins, and virtual signal routing. And you won't have to mess with actual wires.
Composing and arranging a song is hard, and recording easy, but creativity doesn't stop when the song is put "to tape". For one, the mixing stage requires as much, or even more effort for a tune to make a final cut. Producers and musicians experience their version of mental block during this stage. What levels to use for each track? How to place instruments around the stereo spectrum? What needs filtering/compression/effects? The mixing stage is what gives a song its personality; a half-assed mix will sound dull no matter how good the actual song is.
My point is, the concept of mixing is the same whether you do it in the computer or on real mixing consoles.
You don't understand - it's trees woven around a ginourmous fishing net, which will be carried off by four aircraft, which will circle the atmosphere as often as the neighborhood garbage man collects your trash. The captured CO2 will then be dumped at the dark side of the moon, where Eclipso lives. We get to save the world from global warming AND evil forces!
This article reminded me again of something I saw a few years ago at a local film festival. It's called Rok Dabla (Year of the Devil), a film/mockumentary (well, partly) about another struggling band, in Czech Republic's own fashion. It seemed to be influenced a lot by Spinal Tap, and even had a few homages to its predecessor. And it's also just as hilarious.
I might just not be keeping up with the times, but why the collective abhorrence of slashdotters against blogs/bloggers? I ask with genuine curiosity and not because I am opposed to the idea. Internet pollution, maybe?
I agree. I found that "enough light" means either of only two things: sunlight, or lights with bulbs powerful enough to fry you if you stand too close (exaggeration). You'd think your usual fluorescent isn't low-light, but it is as far as the camera is concerned.
And yeah, people buy SLRs not only for image quality but for manual controls anyway.
Flickr is more than a place to upload pictures - it's also a community of photography aficionados, with categorized groups (think yahoo or google groups for photos). There are groups dedicated to photo critiques, so you can post your shots there for hopefully constructive analysis from other flickr users. It's a really interesting place, and I for one go there 75% of the time just to look at other people's works.
And I dunno, the N95 shots do look good _at the resolution presented_. A handy device to have, if you don't have your SLR or P&S with you. Of course, for high res pixel-per-pixel quality, nothing beats SLR. (And cameraphones will suck in low-light.)
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So that explains the hundreds of eager ICQ friends from Russia I've accumulated over a span of three weeks.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of vertically adjustable ceilings!
Has it ever occured to us that trying to treat them human is an insult to their mechanical egos? We insensitive clods.
I smoke Evercrack, you insensitive clod!
He was actually trying to set up a 360-degree camera setup for TEH MATRIX-like bullet-time effects. Using salvaged webcams. And Linux.
This is actually consistent with the idea that music itself should be free, and one should only pay for service (ie music performance).
The big hurdle I think with Linux music is - well, you guessed it - drivers. Most pro-quality PCI sound cards work easy, I'll give it that, but the USB2.0 (note the 2.0) and Firewire interfaces, not so much... yet.
This is an issue with laptop users who want their DAWs mobile. Right now there isn't that much choice in external interface products. Sure you can get ALSA-supported firewire audio interfaces, but chances are, they're one of the high end models (expensive).
USB1.1 device support is easier, but expect large latencies recording two tracks at a time. The E-MU 0404 USB2.0 interface is perfect for the amateur musician, and if only it opens itself up for Linux devs to write drivers for. (Dammit, Creative!)
The idea behind a digital audio workstation is to reduce cost buy buying as few equipment as possible. Your computer acts as a black box which does the job of a mixer, effects processor, etc. with benefits such as: easy undos, virtually unlimited filters and effects through software plugins, and virtual signal routing. And you won't have to mess with actual wires.
Composing and arranging a song is hard, and recording easy, but creativity doesn't stop when the song is put "to tape". For one, the mixing stage requires as much, or even more effort for a tune to make a final cut. Producers and musicians experience their version of mental block during this stage. What levels to use for each track? How to place instruments around the stereo spectrum? What needs filtering/compression/effects? The mixing stage is what gives a song its personality; a half-assed mix will sound dull no matter how good the actual song is.
My point is, the concept of mixing is the same whether you do it in the computer or on real mixing consoles.
What's really funny is that you even had to put a disclaimer about it. I guess the idea isn't too far from the truth...
Now if they can just integrate sex and drugs into it, I'm totally getting one!
At this rate it would take them forever to catch up with Windows v95! No wonder more people are using Windows!
You don't understand - it's trees woven around a ginourmous fishing net, which will be carried off by four aircraft, which will circle the atmosphere as often as the neighborhood garbage man collects your trash. The captured CO2 will then be dumped at the dark side of the moon, where Eclipso lives. We get to save the world from global warming AND evil forces!
This article reminded me again of something I saw a few years ago at a local film festival. It's called Rok Dabla (Year of the Devil), a film/mockumentary (well, partly) about another struggling band, in Czech Republic's own fashion. It seemed to be influenced a lot by Spinal Tap, and even had a few homages to its predecessor. And it's also just as hilarious.
And that is why farting is a hoot.
I might just not be keeping up with the times, but why the collective abhorrence of slashdotters against blogs/bloggers? I ask with genuine curiosity and not because I am opposed to the idea. Internet pollution, maybe?
Best time to bring out the nanotubes!
What that meant was "..rocky like the Earth or covered in an ocean (like the Earth in Waterworld)."
I agree. I found that "enough light" means either of only two things: sunlight, or lights with bulbs powerful enough to fry you if you stand too close (exaggeration). You'd think your usual fluorescent isn't low-light, but it is as far as the camera is concerned.
And yeah, people buy SLRs not only for image quality but for manual controls anyway.
Flickr is more than a place to upload pictures - it's also a community of photography aficionados, with categorized groups (think yahoo or google groups for photos). There are groups dedicated to photo critiques, so you can post your shots there for hopefully constructive analysis from other flickr users. It's a really interesting place, and I for one go there 75% of the time just to look at other people's works.
And I dunno, the N95 shots do look good _at the resolution presented_. A handy device to have, if you don't have your SLR or P&S with you. Of course, for high res pixel-per-pixel quality, nothing beats SLR. (And cameraphones will suck in low-light.)