Re: [Sheflug] Editing Music Scores

[Tim Dobson <personalwebsite@xxxxxxxx>]

Dean Sas wrote:
> Tim Dobson wrote:
>> Howver when it comes to the likes of Pro-tools, Reason, Cubase and FL 
>> Studio ...

> I could be massively wrong (I don't really understand what the above
> tools do, my music editing knowledge begins and ends with that old
> playstation game 'Music'), but isn't that what the jokosher project aims
> to do?

I know very little about the four non-free tools I mentioned, and so 
anything I assert about them has the possibility of being wrong.

I know very little about protools and what form it takes, however I know 
it has some sort of tie in with proprietary hardware, and is one of the 
most widely used software packages in the music world. I can't say 
whether Jokosher is trying to produce something to compete with this 
because I don't know much about it, however a quick glance at wikipedia 
indicates to some extent it probably is.

Reason, which I have a minute amount of experience with, aims to a 
software replacement for a load of analog kit, which is perceived to 
sound awesome to people in the business. It has a very graphical nature 
with one hooking up various modules with the virtual cables which one 
literally plugs into one module and them into another.
I think it is unlikely that jokosher is trying to emulate something like 
this. I also suspect it is unlikely that anyone will try to produce a 
free software alternative in the near future.

I suspect cubase is what jokosher is modelling itself on the most; as 
well as looking very similar, one of the reasons jokosher came into 
being was because jono bacon believed there wasn't anything suitable to 
record lug radio on, so he used cubase.

FL studio is nothing like the rest, being centred on loops (repeating 
small bits of music). This, compared to the others, is much easier for 
non-musical people to create something which they think sounds good. The 
closest we currently have is the drum synthesiser I previously 
mentioned, hydrogen which I believe is trying to move in this direction.

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