[Coco] Utilmuse 3 Manual

[Frank Pittel]

So Gene, tell us how you really feel and don't hold back. :-)

The Other Frank



On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 10:05:52PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> 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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