[PlanetCCRMA] PlanetCCRMA vs the mainstream

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/18/05, Jonathan Segel <jsegel@magneticmotorworks.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 16, 2005, at 12:00 PM, planetccrma-request@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> thanks for the positive feedback. I hope the secretarial work
> >>> done by me
> >>> helps linux audio to become more and more main stream.
>
> sadly, an article on the current state of Linux Audio that I wrote
> this past summer for Electronic Musician Magazine was just killed.
> the editors seemed to think that not enough was "new" since alan
> metts' article on planet-ccrma from jan 2004, and that only 1% of
> their readers used linux anyway. (well, if you only publish one
> article on it every few years...)
> i've been arguing with them for the past few days.
>

Bummer. I would have enjoyed reading it.

I think from a pure marketing POV he's probably right. There isn't a
lot new in terms of app names in the last year. There are now much
more stable apps, but that probably doesn't sell magazines.

Linux Audio is so fragmented it's hard for new people to get their
hands around it, and so many of the apps are so obscure that they are
likely not well understood in a few paragraphs. And still we do not
have a single 'go to' app to replace Pro Tools/Cubase/etc. so many
people wouldn't even attempt to use this as a platform. It's FAR too
hard from a new user perspective.

That said, we need more articles out there to attract more people. I
hope you don't give up.

- Mark