"The Death of High Fidelity" Sad, sad, sad...

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 29 December 2007, Scott Lavender wrote:

> Here's another article about LOUDNESS.
>
> http://www.prorec.com/Articles/tabid/109/EntryID/247/Default.aspx

This really is an interesting subject.  The visuals in that one prompted me to 
go look at the thing I've been tinkering with for a couple of weeks, and sure 
enough, guess what I'm doing?  I've been trying to cram everything up and up 
until a sample of the mix looks a lot like the latest "dogshit" Rush example.

Interesting.  Monkey hear, monkey do?

On a cool note, I just realized I've had the same ZynAddSubFX running this 
whole time, and JACK hasn't had any xruns yet either.  I think I started this 
at least two weeks ago.

It's true that the last time I tried to use Windows for anything like this was 
with Windows ME, but putting my last Windows track together with Pro Tools 
and Cakewalk on Windows ME was considerably less pleasant than what I'm 
enjoying today with Rosegarden on Ubuntu Studio.  I don't even need the power 
and complexity of an Ardour or Pro Tools for what I do, and Ubuntu Studio 
sweats all the hideous realtime crap, so I can just fire things up, and make 
some music without knowing or caring quite how this is all different from 
what I used to do to try to get this stuff to be happy on plain ol' Debian.

So now I'll have to think about avoiding LOUDER IS BETTER.

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D. Michael McIntyre