>I keep feeling like there's a party and it's about to end.
I get that feeling too... that there are very powerful forces at odds with the way we have grown accustomed to sharing IP of all kinds, and expecting its universal, convenient, and free-of-charge availability. But I console myself by imagining that whatever technologies emerge to restrict its flow will be circumvented, and whatever laws emerge to restict that circumvention, will be broken. As soon as we finish building a stable encrypted anonymous decentralized filesharing development forum, our legion of elite serial DMCA-violation coders will be unstoppable!:-)
At the time I ran Linux on a PC, I wrote music on my Amiga 3000 running Bars and Pipes. I switched to the PC so I could use those nice 8x8 MIDI patchbays and have digital recording integrated with my sequencer. That was 1997, and that was the last time I looked into using opensourced sequencers under Linux... and back then I had all these ideas about how cool it would be to have a modular configurable sequencer that anyone could write modules for, and that had a customizable user-interface, and on whose developer you'd never have to depend for driver support. There was nothing that cool (or even remotely that cool-- I think there was something called Jazz at the time) available, so I was dual-booting Windows to run Logic Audio and Soundforge. But recently I started paying attention again... all you brilliant coders have had a few years to do some neat stuff:) I don't know if anyone's posted this link yet, but it's kind of impressive: http://www.linuxartist.org/audio Maybe I'll get a nice fast Linux box for music production sometime soon, eh?:-) -Denizen Magic Firesheep http://www.mp3.com/magicfiresheep
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>I keep feeling like there's a party and it's about to end.
:-)
I get that feeling too... that there are very powerful forces at odds with the way we have grown accustomed to sharing IP of all kinds, and expecting its universal, convenient, and free-of-charge availability. But I console myself by imagining that whatever technologies emerge to restrict its flow will be circumvented, and whatever laws emerge to restict that circumvention, will be broken. As soon as we finish building a stable encrypted anonymous decentralized filesharing development forum, our legion of elite serial DMCA-violation coders will be unstoppable!
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At the time I ran Linux on a PC, I wrote music on my Amiga 3000 running Bars and Pipes. I switched to the PC so I could use those nice 8x8 MIDI patchbays and have digital recording integrated with my sequencer. That was 1997, and that was the last time I looked into using opensourced sequencers under Linux... and back then I had all these ideas about how cool it would be to have a modular configurable sequencer that anyone could write modules for, and that had a customizable user-interface, and on whose developer you'd never have to depend for driver support. There was nothing that cool (or even remotely that cool-- I think there was something called Jazz at the time) available, so I was dual-booting Windows to run Logic Audio and Soundforge. But recently I started paying attention again... all you brilliant coders have had a few years to do some neat stuff :) I don't know if anyone's posted this link yet, but it's kind of impressive: http://www.linuxartist.org/audio Maybe I'll get a nice fast Linux box for music production sometime soon, eh? :-) -Denizen Magic Firesheep http://www.mp3.com/magicfiresheep