A quick look at the website or wikipedia article would have immediately told you that this is completely wrong. Besides, "MIDI format sound file" is an oxymoron: you either have a MIDI file or a sound file.
It is a DAW, and honestly working with real live audio (compared to electronic music) is where it felt the most natural fit.
I used it a decade+ ago to learn to record and mix tracks, manage a huge mess of Jackd connections, run plugins, mix drums (DrumGizmo), release final audio files.
It worked great with external usb controllers and piano keyboards and gave me abilities and clarity I did not realize opensource tools could provide at the time.
Some other daws felt much better for electronic music, but didn't work that well on Linux.
Great software with some interesting history and relation to it's fully commercial flavour.
It had a bit of mixed reviews in the past, as binary releases were only provided from author for paid subscription (which I did, as you could do a really low monthly one). Thus what was included in most popular Linux distros was VERY old and much worse than the actual state of development.
Err, wat? No serious distro is going to use upstream binaries anyway.
According to Repology[0], most up-to-date distros package at least 8.6 (which is a bit old, but far from ancient). If you use an LTS distro, well, you get what you asked for.
The Switch can support a USB keyboard, which would be the nice way to do it. There's already a fair number of officially published games with keyboard and/or mouse support, including a couple of programming ones. It has an on-screen keyboard too of course but you wouldn't want to rely on that more than absolutely necessary.
I remember a design book that emphasized that the best designs are those left after you remove all the distractions and cruft from the current design.
Crazily, I remember Joel on Software saying the best programs are full of cruft, ie all the inelegant details that make it work with all the various environments which can make it deal with the imperfections of the real world, so that using it is as smooth as possible and not revealing all those places which making using it so difficult.
I don't see any contradiction. Both things are true. Best software might mean most profitable (coming from a software maker who makes a living out of software, that seems likely). No one is getting paid to create 'the best design' in software. People are paid to create functioning software with useful features and in the current compute landscape, that often means building and shipping a lot of cruft.
I don't like this situation but I think it's a fair assessment.
Interesting question, and I don't remember. This was 40 years ago. I did find the final exam paper recently and marveled that at one time I was able to ace it. Notable in that there was a typo in one question that rendered it unsolvable. I was able to gain credit nevertheless by showing it to be unsolvable. I think that's the only case I remember where an exam had been printed with a major mistake.
I know that for hospitals it is a minimum of 18 months assuming no large purchasing process like RFPs or RFQs.
Personally I am surprised when it takes less than 3 years
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