Are you drunk?
The fender Mustang is a usb guitar interface, the most linux compatible
one out there. How will you get the guitar into Guitarix, without suitable hardware???
The 'amp' just happens to be included on the cable. And be awesome
'Plug' is a linux clone of the mac/windoze patch editor 'Fuse', that Fender ships with the amp,
and one of the Fender Fuse coders, is also a linux user. Editing 12 Fender amps and fx with
native linux software is a good thing.
And I have often praised Guitarix2 in other locations, and used it last myself on
December 22nd.
I suggest that the future default Guitarix display have all the modules open, and with detected fx
listed, because users of commercial products, might pass by, based on the basic Guitarix Head,
wrongly assuming there is 'nothing more to see'. Dazzle them first, and let them turn things
off later, and save preferences. Perhaps an 'Open/Close All Modules' button,
in a prominent location, would be handy, so users can instantly manage on-screen real-estate.
As to my suggesting Festige to use some windows plugins, you will find that the whole
'linux only' mantra is a huge turn-off to the masses, and especially to musicians, who see it
as petulant snobbery. The trail is littered with the carcasses of those lured in to linux,
by the promises of those unwilling, or unable, to provide accurate and honest support to
the new users who need it most. We all were new at some point. I'm still new every monday,
slowpick is sadly, an apt choice for a nik.
I look forward to each new version of Guitarix. I notice that Falk and linuxdsp and zynaddsubfx
have forums at kvr, might be good for you also, and the amp-sim devs at
www.guitarampmodeleing.com forum are very friendly, another forum outpost you could use
to let the musicians out there know of the good alternatives available.
down in the hood, it's 'Pimp your ride, or get on the sidewalk'
