Hallo, Pablo Martin hat gesagt: // Pablo Martin wrote:
Maybe mastering it will take less time that blender (as blender has so many features), but i *really* think it's easier to get used to blender initially (s, g, r, tab ;)). Not that it matters that much... It's probably a matter of field of interest, but still, as a simple tool, mostly everyone i know and cares a little can use blender to a certain degree (for making small vj videos, or simple props for games), while they can't use ardour (even though some would really like to learn).
I think, it's really a field of interest matter mostly. Blender has much more functionality to present than Ardour, which is natural for the tasks they are targetting. Ardour is just about recording, editing and playing back audio, while Blender is a modeller, animator, renderer and much more. This also becomes obvious by simply comparing shortcut cheat sheets of both:
http://ardour.org/files/manual/sn-mouse-and-keyboard-bindings.html http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Hot_Keys
Basic recording and editing in Ardour can be realised almost without using the keyboard at all: http://ardour.org/files/manual/sn-user-interface-conventions.html The biggest trouble is getting the audio routing right for the first time and understanding tracks and busses, but when that is done everything falls into place naturally (for audio people at least).
Anyway Pd beats both in simplicity by only requiring 6 special keyboard shortcuts: Ctl-1,...,5 and Ctl-e ;)
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__