Comments on: My Manchester Talk Slides

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:37:57 +0000

@oscillik – I will do and cheers for coming over for the talk, was good to see you there Still waiting too hear from Tim about the video, he’s pretty busy but I’ll keep pestering him don’t worry.

By: oscillik

oscillik — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:41:45 +0000

yeah Dan, let us know when you get the video up somewhere see you at LivLUG

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:01:46 +0000

@digi_morass – It was videoed, in HD no less. Might be a while before I can get the footage and process it but I believe the plan is to put it on Archive.org Let you know when I have details

By: digi_morass

digi_morass — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:35:23 +0000

Looks like a cool talk Dan. You should really start recording your talks for your offshore followers

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:04:37 +0000

@Doug – I talked mostly about audio production (podcasts etc) rather than music. The main reason being that I still do the majority of my music work on XP. It’s the only reason I still have a machine with a Windows partition in the house, and it saddens me. We actually discussed that at the end, what’s holding back music on Linux? How can we fix it? That kind of thing. I wanted to start a discussion because I think it’s a real problem that everyone is ignoring. I don’t know how I can get the equivalent of Reason, Ableton Live and the many VST instruments I like to use in Linux. There is VSThost and you can run some things in WINE but it’s never really worked for me. The discussion inspired me to really work hard on this and report back on any brick walls I hit. The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one. It’s a cliche but it’s true. There’s already been a request for a follow up talk on music production, so I’ll let you know more about that when I have details. Thanks for reading, sorry you couldn’t make it too

By: doug livesey

doug livesey — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:03:45 +0000

Was gutted I couldn’t make the talk, sounds like it went really well.
Did you cover music recording & production in the talk?
If you did, I’m doubly gutted!
Cheers,
Doug.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:38:50 +0000

@Steven – Thanks, that is a powerful image I think audio on Linux has had it’s issues but I also think we’re so close to fixing it once and for all. I’m gonna keep working on that and see who I can involve. I do all my standard audio production on Linux and have for some time. I do use a fair bit of external gear but the software is good on the whole. Just a few gaps to plug I think

By: Steven Rosenberg

Steven Rosenberg — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:33:19 +0000

Dan, thanks for putting the slides up. I’m very keen on figuring out how to do audio in Linux, and I’m quite impressed with the audio quality of the podcast, especially given that you and Fab are in different countries.

I have a recurring image in my head in which I imagine you saying, Ballmer style, “Microphones, microphones, microphones!”