[Coco] Utilmuse 3 Manual

gene heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Dec 6 22:05:52 EST 2011


On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 09:34:24 PM Bill Pierce did opine:

> The only thing holding Linux back from the pro audio world is lack of
> support from the majors. There are no pro audio Daws (digital audio
> workstations) for Linux.

Tell that on the L.A.D. list, but put your nomex underwear on first.

> There is some being developed... but... the
> industry standard IS (and will be for a while) Pro Tools. I run
> different DAWs for different things but I have to move all to Pro Tools
> eventually if Im going to move my tracks to another studio or for
> submission. Almost all studios and submission services want it in this
> format. So if Linux wants to see inside the big houses... they have to
> get Avid Software to port Pro Tools over. There are several real
> promising audio packages for Linux, but they have literally years of
> catching up to do. The 64-Studio package is one that comes to mind.
> I've yet to give it a go, but I hear good things. If the major pro
> audio software companies would port to Linux, we'd start seeing some
> good stuff. And I'm not taking just MIDI. My Sony Vegas Pro 10 software
> that I do most of my recordin g and mixing on, will record as many
> audio tracks as I have interfaces and mix unlimited tracks till I blow
> the CPU from running it too hard. And believe me... I push it :-)

If you are referring to Sony in the "big houses" category, sorry, I just 
lost interest.

Rant mode on:

  In my cd purchases since they put the rootkit on their cd's, and Phillips 
sued them because some of the early releases had the CDDA logo on the disk 
and inserts.  And Phillips wanted REAL money, lots of it.  Ooops.  That set 
the boundaries and put all the pressers on notice that the content of the 
disk HAD to meet Orange book specs if they wanted to use that CDDA logo.  I 
don't buy it unless its there, and I don't buy anything from Wallies 
because they STILL have the bad disks in the sale bin yet today.  Sony 
supposedly did a recall & exchange for clean uninfected disks, but that was 
too much trouble for Wal-Mart because the packing and shipping was on Wal-
Marts dime.  I suspect Wal-Mart was not the only peddler that shrugged and 
went on with the days normal business.

We do support some of Sony's VAIO computers in linux, but until Sony gets 
the message, not much of their stuff goes into the developers homes unless 
the drive is removed and formatted first just to protect the rest of the 
stuff on the local net it might get plugged into.

Yes, I own some Sony stuff, but its both junk considering the price ($280 
1986 dollars) and paper specs they never met, plus its now 25 years old, a 
dual deck, reversible metal tape cassette deck kit, supposed to have a snr 
of around 75 db with dolby enabled.  Maybe it might, but you would have to 
put in a comb filter whose base null is at 60 hz to get rid of the -45db 
hum.  From either of its decks.

Yeah, Sony is a 4 letter word, and likely to stay that way in this old 
Chiefs Tipee.

They can start by writing royalty checks to their artists without all the 
creative book keeping that makes the artist owe them money for a cd that 
goes gold.

I'll get me coat.

[...]

Cheers, Gene
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