<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>I had to deal with this from several different angles last year and this is the perspective I got:<br><br></div>It's about where Ardour is right now in its original goals, and it's not 'can you do this, but 'can you do this easily and naturally.' You can already do professional level recording in Ardour3, but when it finishes coming into its own, it's really gonna be ready to do some damage for pro level needs. This is a special achievement compared to the first time I tried Ardour in the early 200s. For time reasons, and the excitement of this for many of us in the open source audio community, this is where Paul and crew should focus their efforts.<br>
<br></div>I was planning on using prosumer cards for pro level needs of some of my friends because I thought they were on the brink of sounding really good and assumed that Linux support would become dominant; neither happened. I am admitting that I'ts time to buy the entire RME suite for those needs with Linux. After some tantrums, I've decided to excite myself that this level of recording is possible instead of being pissed that pro prosumer didn't come about. RME is not overpriced for its quality level.<br>
<br></div>I recently helped an uber geek who does a lot of presentations at conferences put together a plan for him<em> with a Sampson CO1U USB mic that works fine for his purposes, and we found a linux app that is easy for him to use. However, if you used this for a singer used to mics plugged into real preamp(that start at $500) it wouldn't fly. Or these kids who really go at this mixing and matching with sampling recorded inputs etc use so many effects that they need a really good sound to start with or the sound would be mush by the final mix.<br>
<br></em></div><em>When I had to figure out how the next generation were recording, I found out I had friends doing professional recordings who were using a Linux computer in their homes for networking n such that didn't know Linux had ANY serious apps for pro recording.<br>
<br></em></div><em>Rounding out Ardour3 for that crowd is such an achievement that expanding features for the prosumer world IMHO is wonderful, but is a focus for after the peak of Ardour's first mountain is reached. That level of audiophile has enough of if not the geek gene, the puttering gene that they'll start using Ardour, maybe not for all their needs, but as an app they take seriously, and many of them who are pissed off at Microsoft, and think Apple is overpriced will use it because they like Linux if they see it as just comparable to what they're now using.<br>
<br></em>Will<br></div><em></em><div><div><div><div><span class=""><em></em></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Brett McCoy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:idragosani@gmail.com" target="_blank">idragosani@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Thomas Vecchione <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seablaede@gmail.com" target="_blank">seablaede@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Paul Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com" target="_blank">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Pro sound engineers would not be using ardour.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well dang why didn't someone tell me I shouldn't use Ardour? Ahh well to late now, and I am to dang lazy to change.</div>
<div> </div><div>So is this guy done trolling yet?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Guess it's back to Garage Band and Audacity...</div></div><div class="im"><br clear="all"><div><br>
</div>-- <br>Brett W. McCoy -- <a href="http://www.brettwmccoy.com" target="_blank">http://www.brettwmccoy.com</a><br>
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