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Yeah, 'cause nobody ever has problems with OS updates, right. Particularly not the ones with specialized hardware. Just ask the Apple guys. The music dudes who use Apple never have problems at all. You know, if you define "never" as "with almost every single update of OSX".

In his live shows he has massive amounts of loops and tracks that he never releases to the public that he can use so that his shows are fresh different almost every time

Deadmau5 himself says otherwise: "We all hit play"

Pay no attention to the mouse behind the curtain; just look at all the pretty lights.

What PCIe cards are you plugging in again?

http://www.uaudio.com/uad-plug...

http://www.uaudio.com/interfac... (with optional thunderbolt interface).

http://www.presonus.com/produc...

http://createdigitalmusic.com/...

You can use GNU/Linux, whether Ubuntu or even better, Trisquel. Another interesting one to try is Fedora: http://www.muktware.com/2012/0... and they also have another. Almost any distro can handle audio, some do this better than others in terms of plugins. This article is a tad dated, but also informative. http://createdigitalmusic.com/... There is no need to go the proprietary route unless you are looking for something very specific.

Please give a real life example of a device that's incompatible with USB but has a USB plug, because this really shouldn't be the case.

I've already given a real life example in my anecdote of my co-worker who fried his phone by using a charger from his old phone.

Since that doesn't seem to be enough for you, here's an article about USB 3.0 incompatibilities with audio equipment.

Another significant difference may be power. We’ve seen issues with USB devices before involving even minor power differences. One reader wisely points out that incompatibility reports we’re seeing all seem to involve bus-powered devices. And this is an area in which the USB specification alone doesn’t provide enough certainty to rule out potential problems. Different bus-powered USB devices have different power draws, and may respond differently to power availability

If you'd like another example, please find one yourself using Google.

None of the pre-existing audio APIs for Android have proven very satisfactory so far, at least for anything that requires high performance and/or low latency - see the following links for details: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/05/android-2-2-badly-needed-improvements-to-audio-touch-more-whats-missing/ http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434 However, it looks like OpenSL ES will provide the necessary C APIs VLC needs. Still, I guess any vestigial Java ports might prove useful for other platforms (J2ME maybe). On the other hands, whether Gingerbread will satisfy the requirements of audio creativity app developers is another question. It seems the ES standard might lack the rigor required for properly performant low latency audio apps. Some may doubt the value of such apps, but they are experiencing a huge boom in popularity on the iPad and iPhone. The multitouch surface offers a hugely expressive interface. With a bit more rigor from Google and phone manufacturers, it could seriously open up the market for realtime audio creativity apps on Android.

In the realm of electronic music production, the iPad is showing a lot of promise.

This is sort of a big deal amongst electronic musicians, as before the iPad the only similar alternative was the US$2,000+ Jazzmutant Lemur.

Was not about books, but about music this concern, but probably applies. Is good that they used an open format for ebooks, i agree, but 2 things

- ePub don't have an standard for DRM yet, but enables to add one. They could pick their own, put a big patent/copyright/whatever over it, and turn an open format in something that is in practice a closed one

- How you transfer your own files to (or maybe even from) the device? What if the only (legal, without cracking the device) source of "open format" ebooks is Apple? That will defeat the meaning of being an "open" format too.

Here's a similar opinion from a source that's less Free Software oriented.

The danger is that we sleepwalk into a world where cabals of corporations control not only the mainstream devices and the software on them, but also the entire ecosystem of online services around them.

Every time Apple decides to close something off - by insisting on approving apps, by not giving you a [general purpose] USB port, etc., and people go for it anyway, because it's slick and nice to use, we get used to a little bit less openness.

People don't miss openness until it's too late. Then it's suddenly "What do you *mean* I can only use printers that are Apple certified?". "I've bought all these e-books, and now the only place I can read them is on Apple hardware?" etc.

I know, I know: slippery slope fallacy. But it's a slope we *will* slide down, without a critical mass of openness-aware customers insisting on some openness in their tools.
 

Most electronic musicians arent going to be using the built in sound cards as they are crap, but I know the external one I use, native instruments audio4, is supported by linux as is the whole audio line. The article does have the artists solution to all the complexities of linux audio, which basically boiled down to alsa and jack.

Anyway here is the article, http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/

You might have to go to the Pure Data solution anyway as Cycling '74 is discontinuing Max/MSP

With most players, you don't have to use any "music manager." Just mount the device and copy.

That's true for MP3 players that implement USB's mass storage device class: the mounter in any operating system since 1999 just treats it as a removable disk drive formatted in FAT16 or FAT32 depending on the capacity. But other MP3 players, especially those that support WMA files with digital restrictions management, are Media Transfer Protocol devices. MTP is a protocol based on the Picture Transfer Protocol used by some scanners and cameras. For PTP and MTP devices, "mount the device" means that the music manager is a shell extension for Windows Explorer, and the issue is that not every graphical shell on other operating systems has such an extension.

Some recent discussion on audio in Leopard:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/leopard/

Now, note in particular that Digidesign's struggles aren't limited to Leopard (see, for example "Digidesign and M-Audio Drivers Fail to Keep Pace with Vista, Leopard, and XP SP3") -- I personally think Digi as a company has a problem. But they're not the only vendor mentioning audio issues in 10.5.2, and there are others like MOTU who haven't been explicitly complaining but have had product release delays (DP 6 was supposed to be out Q2).

The truth of the matter is that vinyl records are crap compared to CD's in every measurable way - distortion, dynamic range, frequency response, signal to noise ratio, you name it.

The only problem is the advantages have been nulled by the mastering. In the loudness war, distortion, dynamic range, frequency response, signal to noise ratio and you name it has been reduced below the 70db range of a record. There is no advantage to a CD recording with it's 96 DB dynamic range when the mastering has killed the dynamic range.
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/05/16/loudness-war-music-over-compression-demonstrated-on-youtube/
http://my.opera.com/swerfot/blog/2007/08/26/loudness-war

It is a shame to go to an obsolete limited dynamic range format to get better dynamic range.

It's true that a digital recording can never contain the amount of data in a vinyl groove, but who is saying that all the data in a vinyl groove is more of an accurate representation of all the data extant in the original sound wave than a digitally sampled recording?

The kicker for me showing a total lack of understanding of the technology is the popularity of USB turntables. They can't keep them in stock. Quick, someone show me any analog signal in a USB specification.. Analog is better.. Analog is king, Here use this USB turntable to enjoy your analog sound. What are they smoking? Nothing out the USB port of a turntable is analog in any shape or form. Who has a better low noise analog to digital converter, a consumer grade turntable or a CD mastering house?

Analog is king only because the mastering house slaughtered the conversion in the loudness war. If you check the links, the youtube link provides the best summary with an example of the problem which can be heard and seen.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/05/16/loudness-war-music-over-compression-demonstrated-on-youtube/
http://my.opera.com/swerfot/blog/2007/08/26/loudness-war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=55892

CDs are on the way out because the music on them is crap. Finding a decent recording in the pile of crap is why many simply avoid the contaminated format. USB turntables, even though you don't get analog, you also don't get the over compression, which is why the ability to play better source material is so popular. Analog has nothing to do with this argument. Destruction of the sound on compact discs in mastering is the problem.

2) Don't buy DRM'd media and you won't have any DRM issues on Vista.

I wouldn't be so quick on the draw there. I've heard many people on forums complain about Vista apparently throwing up a big, ugly hand into the middle of non-DRM content usage. Here's a typical post, from http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/01/25/vista-con tent-protection-drm-wont-impact-music-production-s ays-microsoft-and-you/ :

John Clark

Mr Kirn: regarding DVD issues, I've already run into numerous issues under Vista. Recently when Re-tracking the audio to our bands most recent music-video DVD prior to issuing a final release for distribution, using Adobe Audition as the recording source, WMP refused to play the DVD whilst Audition was loaded. No real explanation was given, just a blank error box and a second one stating an error occurred in displaying the error. Ouch. I ASSUME this is a DRM issue, but the media was non-protected to begin with, and will be released without any protection, as we believe in fair market practice, which DRM of any kind violates.

I'm not sure how much detail is required in this explanation, or to get a comprehensive response back, but the audio was audio was being recorded from the DVDs optical-audio out, to the X-Fi's optical -in port, all in the same system. The goal was to split the already encoded audio track from the DVD source to attach it to the identical video pack in an MPEG4 container prior to creating an HDDVD to also be released. If I'm missing something, then I apologise, but this appears to be a real-world scenario for DRM issues under vista that are not specifically content-related. And I'm no engineer so If this is off a bit in terms, again, sorry.

February 10, 2007 @ 6:00 am

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You can't record with an iPod?

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/06/22/i pod_recorder.html
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/04/23/cx_ah_ 0423tentech.html
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/118245 &mode=thread
http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?option=com _content&task=view&id=130

Create Digital Music want you to celebrate this second. Here's the URL, looks like a good project:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?option=com _content&task=view&id=1075&Itemid=44