[matilda] Open Source Music (.. was C90 gig space etc)

[dan at aktivix.org]

Oooo! Bitch!

Er... this probably isn't the list for this debate, but, hey...

If you make a repetitive beat and a 303 line, that's up to you - the limits are
not imposed by the software, any more than they are by a canvas.  It's possible
to do absolutely anything you can imagine.

In an ideal world, where we all have a citizen's wage / are able to sustain
ourselves and do what we want, loads of people will work full-time on
non-proprietary music software.  As it is, the resources commited to producing
something like Cubase or Ableton or Halion or Reaktor or not within the reach
of the open source movement.  Yet.

Open source in this context perhaps doesn't stand a chance because so many
people are using cracked copies of everything.  There's no supply and demand
pressure on the open source movement!

This whole e-mail is based on prejudice and supposition.  I have never used any
open source music software. Ha.

Dan
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Quoting Alan Dawson <aland at burngreave.net>:

> Quoting dan at aktivix.org:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Also, one more thing: anyone interested in getting together to talk about
> an
> > 'open source' night for budding electronic DIY-types - that'd be great.
> > (Sadly,
> > not open source software-wise coz all the best stuff is still entirely
> > proprietary... but collaborative and ego-free...)
> > 
> 
> Thats a matter of opinion.. If you want to make tunes that sound like
> everbody
> elses then use the same tools as everybody else.  I often think that the
> tail
> wags the dog when it comes to music technology, and a repetitive beat and
> squelchy lead line simply show's the paucity of imagination in the 21st
> century.
> 
> Check out some of the stuff at
> http://access.lowtech.org/loss/index.php?cmd=all
> for some more inventive stuff
> 
> my favourites chaos butterfly 'sleepish'
> http://access.lowtech.org/loss/details.php?file=8 
> , and of course 'Eh' by Jake Harries
> http://access.lowtech.org/loss/details.php?file=4
> 
> AED
> -- 
> "If you make decisions about software -- or anything -- based solely on
> short-term cost and benefit, someone with a longer view can easily
> manoeuver you into a trap from which it is hard to escape."  
>   
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