Yeah, Wal-Mart is pretty well accepted as the most technologically advanced retailer of all time. And I hear most of their business systems are home-grown, too.
What you describe is "indifference", which I agree is very common regarding computers, and rightly so for many people. That doesn't explain this extra effort to defend Microsoft, which is what my original comment was about.
So, Hydrogen is a pretty decent pattern based drum sequencer. Rosegarden is an adequate score-based MIDI sequencer. What if I want to add ddrums to my MIDI file? Well, the only real way I've found is to do them seperately and merge them together. And that causes incredible grief later when you want to change something. And you can't edit the drums and the music at the same time.
Actually, the ALSA midi routing tools do this. Perfectly. And qjackctl provides a nice graphical front-end for it. Then you use JACK to route the audio together into a recording package, via whatever synth and processing software you want. The potential is unlimited.
I've used FruityLoops, and while it's got a slick interface for what it does, it doesn't do everything (like recording, for example).
I'll never understand what motivates people to defend large corporations such as Microsoft. They already spend plenty of money to defend themselves; they don't need your help.
That said, I'll just throw out there that Microsoft vulnerabilities are as a rule much more plentiful, severe, and easily exploited than those found in Linux. Even more so for the BSD's. This is fact.
Since this seems to be the only thread in this discussion involving people who have actually tried this software, maybe you can answer this: does it support LADSPA plugins, like virtually all other Linux audio software? Seems like a very important feature to me, and I don't see it mentioned on their ultra-sparse website.
There's already a gigantic shitload of good audio software for Linux . . . I'd call this a "minor addition". Here's a listing. There's also an entire Linux distribution set up for audio.
Here's what I use:
multitracking: Ardour
MIDI sequencer: Rosegarden
editor: Audacity
drums: Hydrogen
softsynths: Alsa Modular and QSynth
There's really a ton of stuff out there . . . it just (like almost all free/OSS) doesn't get as much exposure as commercial work.
There's already a gigantic shitload of good audio software for Linux . . . I'd call this a "minor addition" rather than a "first step". Here's a listing. There's also an entire Linux distribution set up for audio.
Here's what I use: multitracking: Ardour MIDI sequencer: Rosegarden editor: Audacity drums: Hydrogen softsynths: Alsa Modular and QSynth
There's really a ton of stuff out there . . . it just (like almost all free/OSS) doesn't get as much exposure as commercial work.
You missed the point entirely. Promoting the scheme (in your case via your Slashdot sig) IS the spam. It's advertising. It's unsolicited. I'm receiving it, even though I don't want it. You're abusing a shared medium (Slashdot) to send it.
Don't even bother to tell me I can turn of sigs if I don't want to see it; that's exactly equivalent to "if you don't like spam, don't use email".
It's a good deal for you (free stuff at the expense of everyone else), but it's polluting the Internet.
It's spam. I'm not sure if you folks don't realize that, are in denial, or just don't care, but you're getting paid to send unsolicited advertisements. SPAM.
Really there's no such thing as an energy "source", per se . . . just energy storage (hydrogen, gasoline, batteries, etc.) and energy converters (engines, power plants, the Sun, etc.). "Source" implies energy is being created, which, so I hear, can't happen.
Perhaps one solution would be to have the software randomize the order of the candidates, so it would eliminate the crease arguement altogether. You could have your 5 buttons then.
Better yet, just display the first four candidates that randomly come up. "Oh, you wanted to vote for Bush? Well, it's Nader or Badnarik for you, buddy. Better luck next time."
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And, of course, release notices are a form of marketing, as with all software.
Yeah, Wal-Mart is pretty well accepted as the most technologically advanced retailer of all time. And I hear most of their business systems are home-grown, too.
What you describe is "indifference", which I agree is very common regarding computers, and rightly so for many people. That doesn't explain this extra effort to defend Microsoft, which is what my original comment was about.
Actually, the ALSA midi routing tools do this. Perfectly. And qjackctl provides a nice graphical front-end for it. Then you use JACK to route the audio together into a recording package, via whatever synth and processing software you want. The potential is unlimited.
I've used FruityLoops, and while it's got a slick interface for what it does, it doesn't do everything (like recording, for example).
That's true. However, that's not what Bush was talking about when he wrongly pluralized "Internet".
That said, I'll just throw out there that Microsoft vulnerabilities are as a rule much more plentiful, severe, and easily exploited than those found in Linux. Even more so for the BSD's. This is fact.
Since this seems to be the only thread in this discussion involving people who have actually tried this software, maybe you can answer this: does it support LADSPA plugins, like virtually all other Linux audio software? Seems like a very important feature to me, and I don't see it mentioned on their ultra-sparse website.
Here's what I use:
multitracking: Ardour
MIDI sequencer: Rosegarden
editor: Audacity
drums: Hydrogen
softsynths: Alsa Modular and QSynth
There's really a ton of stuff out there . . . it just (like almost all free/OSS) doesn't get as much exposure as commercial work.
Here's what I use:
multitracking: Ardour
MIDI sequencer: Rosegarden
editor: Audacity
drums: Hydrogen
softsynths: Alsa Modular and QSynth
There's really a ton of stuff out there . . . it just (like almost all free/OSS) doesn't get as much exposure as commercial work.
Don't even bother to tell me I can turn of sigs if I don't want to see it; that's exactly equivalent to "if you don't like spam, don't use email".
It's a good deal for you (free stuff at the expense of everyone else), but it's polluting the Internet.
It's spam. I'm not sure if you folks don't realize that, are in denial, or just don't care, but you're getting paid to send unsolicited advertisements. SPAM.
What's worse, this, or someone with a fucking free iPod link in their .sig? Hasn't that horrible, horrible fad burned out yet?
Really there's no such thing as an energy "source", per se . . . just energy storage (hydrogen, gasoline, batteries, etc.) and energy converters (engines, power plants, the Sun, etc.). "Source" implies energy is being created, which, so I hear, can't happen.
Better yet, just display the first four candidates that randomly come up. "Oh, you wanted to vote for Bush? Well, it's Nader or Badnarik for you, buddy. Better luck next time."
or ON FAT ALE, XCEPT I? Maybe the computer wanted a beer.
I believe that's a monacle. The guy also has a large canvas bag with "$" marked on it in the seat next to him, under his top hat.
That's true. You can stay inside your house whenever you want.
p.s. vi kicks emacs' ass
My cat's terrified of my laser pointer. "Method of exercising a cat" my ass.
Clicking that link or modding the parent post up = making spam profitable. Friends don't let friends support spam.
You know, stenography. As in, typing the files on paper instead of in the computer. Makes them really hard to find later.
Not if they're rewriting it, as the parent poster said. This is copyright law, not patent law.
For the same reason they didn't wait x more days for the y other software packages with newer versions available.