I very much agree, even though I’m sinning a bit against this myself by using Max instead of PD. Frankly I find it harder and harder to go back to PD the more I learn in Max.
I think it is important to make the stuents aware of the open software possibilities, and that the universities have a special responsibility to do this. Students have the possibility to spend time on working their time around the downsides of open software (and they might actually learn even more from doning that). And secondly – people have a tendency to stick what they learned first (that’s precisely the reaon why I never got into PD), so teaching more students about open software will benefit the open source community.
It’s the teachers who must do lead this initiative. I promise to do my part if I get back into first level teaching.
There are certain things I really miss in PD (e.g. broken patch cords and preset functionality), and other things I think are great (e.g. built-in send/receive, linear/log switching, portability, price).
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