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The tangles and tangles make it almost impossible to move anything without spending twenty or thirty minutes under the desk.

So don't move stuff. Feng Shui and all that jazz.

MIDI guitars and guitar interfaces were available in the 90s, probably earlier. Here's one I remember:
Parker MIDIFly

All the folks saying you can't play a 7-note chord on a 6-string guitar should familiarize themselves with harmonics.

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/harmonics.html

The harmonic series is a mathematical definition, generally used when talking about frequencies. The harmonic series is important in musical applications because most instruments (including guitar) produce sounds that contain harmonic frequencies. The natural frequencies of the string mentioned above form a harmonic series.
A frequency is harmonic if it is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency. The fundamental is the first harmonic (although it's generally referred to as the fundamental). The second harmonic is two times the frequency of the fundamental, the third harmonics is three times the fundamental, and so on. So with a fundamental of 100 Hz, the second harmonic is 200 Hz, the third is 300 Hz, the fourth is 400 Hz, etc.
Rather than working with numbers, you can think of the harmonic series in terms of musical intervals. The first harmonic is the fundamental. The second harmonic is an octave above. The third harmonic is an octave and a fifth above the fundamental. The fourth harmonic is two octaves above the fundamental. The fifth harmonic is a another major third higher, the sixth is another minor third higher, and the series continues.

"...studio's decision to sacrifice range for loudness."

That's retarded. Loudness is no good if it sounds like it's coming out of a tinny radio, which is what too much compression and limiting can do. They apparently did such a poor job of it that the Cd signal was clipped! They certainly forgot what good "metal" is supposed to sound like.

Knowing Metallica, they probably cranked out a half-ass 10-minute session in the studio and had their "mastering" engineeer Pro-Tool the hell out of it, cut-and-paste style. Then they laughed, high-fived each other over beers, coke, and their solid gold Ferraris as they continue to be out of touch with reality.

And yes, in case you all were wondering, their new album most certainly does SUCK. Listening to Metallica is like having banged the prom queen in high school only to see her become a queen of the 300-pound welfare sort :(

But a noise gate's pumping and breathing may only aggrivate a compressor's worst attributes(which, coincidentally, just happen to be "pumping" and "breathing" since a comp is a dynamic effect like a noise gate).

Since many of the "you"-style(as in YOUtube) recordings like home-video style recorded lectures, performances, etc. are used with a mic, then the noise gate(especially in conjunction with a comp) will only amplify the imperfections.

In other words: slownewsday, stop whining. If it's that much of a hassle then rip the audio and master it yourself.

it is bit different about guitar cables.
here is a good read about them.

Someone hasn't tried Reason.

http://www.farsipraise.net/blog/uploaded_images/ga rageband-723027.jpg

vs.

http://namm.harmony-central.com/Musikmesse02/Conte nt/Propellerhead/PR/Reason-2-front-large.jpg

Even better, runs on both Windows and Mac.

Hm. Naming problem. Colloquially they're called 'module trackers' or 'midi/music sequencers', but essentially they're both the same thing: a program that places hardware/user-defined notes in user-designed spots in songs.

To the talented, they are a good as a room full of fine musical instruments. To the less talented, they're much like a cat with a tether attached to its tail, labeled 'swing me'.

There are also 'sound editors', like Sound Forge, that allow you to mess with the raw sound data, and Cakewalk and Audacity, which are excellent 'multitrack recorders' with SF-like functionality built in (Cakewalk's a MUCH better program, but as for Audacity, 'free' is a good selling point).

None of these could be considered 'music editors', which to me implies something that can take in raw PCM data and let you select out and remove, add, and modify notes. No such program exists to my knowledge.

The term "squirt" was actually used long before Zune by wireless and satellite engineers. Sending a bit of data wirelessly to a satellite was termed "squirting". It did not come from MS marketing and nobody at MS really likes it either.


There, in order to simulate telephones, researchers had figured out how to digitize speech, squirt it into the computer, then turn the bits back into sound waves afterwards.

You only have so much radio capability (power for transmitters, sensitivity for receivers). You can cover the whole area in every direction from the airplane, or you can squirt it all in one direction.

Squirt the bird: To transmit a signal to a satellite.

And what's wrong with Shure, btw?

Shure in general -- nothing at all. The Shure I got from Sam Ash -- well, I got what I paid for. That was kind of my point: you can cheap out and record your band live in somebody's basement with a little four-track, but it'll sound like that's exactly what you did. If that's the sound you want, they you're good to go, but if you want something a little more polished, you'll have to pony up more time, effort and bucks. None of the three are optional.

Why are you asking a question about digital recording on Slashdot when there are so many better places to ask?

Just a few links:

http://messageboard.tapeop.com/ (my favorite)
http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/
http://gearslutz.com/
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/index.p hp

http://aes.harmony-central.com/119AES/Content/Sony /PR/PCM-D1.html

it looks incredibly cool too.

m-audio has a cheaper thing

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrack24 96-main.html

I agree. When MD first came out I lusted after one. I never got one because I really did not have a pressing need for one. I don't know if they MD - iPod comparison is a good one. They are really made for different things. A better comparison would be to the flash based and hard drive based pro recorders. Like These:

http://aes.harmony-central.com/119AES/Content/Sony /PR/PCM-D1.html

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrack24 96-main.html

I'm with the OP on this. I was looking for a portable recording system a while back and considered MDs because they're cheap, compact and go a long time between batteries. Trouble is, they're also hard to find with manual recording levels. As far as DAT goes, I was advised to try the Tascam DAP 1. It was OK, but costs more than A$2,500 and is fairly bulky. The SonyPCMM1 seemed OK, but the recording level dial was a bitch to set up. Anyway, with any of the DAT gear, download times are a pain.

I ended up getting a Boss BR532 http://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/Data/Boss/B R_532-01.html. It records on SmartMedia, can download to computer in only a few minutes, has a built-in mixer, and the compression's not too bad as long as you're careful how you use it. It cost less than half the price of the DATs as well.

1. Learn how to make a general sound compressor.
2. Hire a few electrical engineers and send them to order a few thousand PCB circuits.
3. Hire a mechanical engineer and have them make the encasings. Oh, most importantly, make sure the encasings are iPod white in color.
4. Your design should have a 1/8" audio jack in and a 1/8" audio jack out with a 3" length of audio cable. It's plugged into any media device and then your headphones plug into it.
5. Profit!

Your overall point is well-taken.

Small quibble here:
MIDI's data rate is: 31.5 kBaud.
http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/Doc/intro.html

While I've worked mostly with hardware synths (not samplers) and software samplers and synths, it seems like MIDI would be a poor way to transfer audio due to the low data rate (true, samples tend to be brief and relatively small (as audio files go)). Most of the hardware samplers I've seen had SCSI ports for external data devices (or direct transfer from Mac/PC). I'm not saying you couldn't do it via MIDI SysEx, just wondering why you'd want to (if there were other options available). Of course, floppy disks aren't all that speedy either...

I like this one much better http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2005/Hughes-K ettner-Tube-Clock.html Plus it's about the same price

What you want is a video mixer, like you might find at a TV station. Problem is, they're not cheap.

here's a 4 channel for about 1100$ US. And 8 channels for 2600$ US.
I don't know anything about this model, or really anything else. I suspect if you find something that does what you want, it will be far outside your budget.

This is a bit like Alesis AirFX or AirSynth, I guess. Nothing groundbreaking (airwavering) here.

I have no idea what bug you have up your butt, but here's a few points.

Yes, BeOS is a dead operating system. There are no marketing claims for BeOS after about 2000. If you're going to be evaluating the original claims for BeOS made during its brief moment in the sun, 1998-1999, compare those claims with what was around then, not what's around now.

Steinberg ported Nuendo to BeOS. You'll notice that it could process 96 media tracks simultaneously. Why is this significant? Because on the same hardware the NT version could only do 48 tracks.

As a matter of fact, yes, BeOS did have a better media core than anything else did, in one specific area: latency. There was literally nothing else beyond true RTOSes that could touch it. If you go to a stage show in Vegas, Disney or even some Broadway theatres, there's a non-zero chance that the sound and lighting system is still being run by a BeOS-based system from LCS. In 2005, other operating systems have caught up in some respects, but the main thing that "beats" BeOS in media processing is simply Moore's Law: machines are so much faster now than they were six years ago that it doesn't matter that their signal processing still blows moose chunks.

There are other things that BeOS had that no other operating system had, most notably the file system and live queries that could operate on metadata. Make a virtual folder that contains all the word processing documents you've edited in the last week? No problem. BeOS was by far the most responsive operating system I've ever used. And you know what? It got more commercial applications announced for it in its first two years of public release than Linux did in its first five or six. (Some of those commercial applications are in fact still around, now on other platforms.)

Yes, BeOS had its share of problems, some of them did involve driver support, and there's been very little development on drivers since 2000. But it wasn't difficult to find supported hardware back then--I ran it on a pretty much stock Gateway PC--and I can assure you that BeOS does not suck. If Be had made some wiser business decisions (like not going after the non-existent internet appliance market, and knifing their desktop developers in order to do it), it'd probably still be around.

I'm not particularly interested in ZetaOS because, in the context of 2005, it's not a very compelling operating system. But you obviously don't have a clue why so much of the computing world was excited about it in 1999.

named Switchback which infected OSX Macs, but nobody noticed it.

There are others such as Renepo.B
MacOS MW2004 Trojan, MP3 Concept, Opener, and a sound driver virus.

I think clearly the only virus myth about OSX, is the myth that OSX has no viruses that can infect it. Apparently there are at least several examples of OSX viruses, and that number seems to grow. It may even double every year.

I've always felt that using a computer without virus protection was like having unprotected sex without a condom with multiple partners. Back in the old days, when they used to say that the Commodore Amiga had no viruses, and that only MS-DOS suffered from viruses, Amigas got their own viruses that infected their systems. Usually it was one of those Amiga demo programs that people downloaded from BBSes to show off the Amiga's graphics and sound. Someone would infect it with a virus and pass it around. Amiga users felt that the Amiga virus was a myth, and many got hit. Now I see the same thing happen for OSX, only OSX is on the Internet and is subject to more danagers than the BBS world once offered.

So yes, the facts speak for Symantec, that OSX viruses exist, and possibly they could grow in number.

This bone-headed stunt of offering a contest to virus infect two Macs only shows how gullable people are. It was a phoney contest.

Actually I look for this to be the death of it. I had thought that selling Excite to @home for 6 billion was the biggest rip-off to every hit the web, but this one might take the cake.

Here is a fun one.

What is the fastest Pentium Processor?

And (drum roll please) the first Web result is .....

How Fast Is The 400MHz Pentium* II Processor?

I'll stick with asking G instead.

There is already a music keyboard that runs Windows!
Has a touch sensitive screen plus loads of hardware controllers on the huge front panel which makes it a great all-in-one production studio.
http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM04/Content/Op en_Labs/PR/OpenSynth-neKo.html

The Korg OASYS project has been around for years though. They demonstrated this back at NAMM in the mid 90s IIRC.
They said they were shelving the plans after a while because hardware was not fast enough to bring the performance they wanted.
Now they have bogomips coming out of their ears it is good to see them eventually follow through.

Serious, hit Harmony Central and you'll find more than you could ever imagine on guitar stuff, complete with reviews by any number of musicians.

For myself, I learnt off the Russ Shipton books, downloaded chords off the web (a href=http://www.tab-robot.com>Tab Robot is a good place to start these days), and put in lots of practise.

After 8 years of playing, I went to a teacher to refine some technique. Man, that's well worth doing, and I wish I'd done it earlier. But don't go until you *can* actually play stuff - learning basic chords is muscle memory, and you can do that just as well yourself without spending big money on a teacher. Practise, is all.

As for getting a guitar, for god's sake learn on a small classical guitar first, and don't buy any of those "learn rock guitar" books - I've not seen a good one. They might have you playing the "Smoke On The Water" riff quickly, but ultimately it's like using "Chopsticks" to teach piano playing. What you'll learn is a few basic tricks instead of proper technique, and it's very easy to fake stuff on an electric.

And don't get a cheapy Fender Squier - spring for a proper one. I got a Squier and whilst it sounds OK, the hardware is poor quality so it tends not to stay in tune properly. Spring for a proper Strat - it's not much more expensive. And if you've started with a cheap little classical, you'll then be in a position to hit the shops and actually play them yourself and make a decent choice, instead of watching like a sucker while the assistant prepares to fleece you.

Oh yes, another rule - beware of trusting a guitar shop salesman.

Grab.

In the U.S. the surchage applies only to blank Music CD-Rs. Standalone CD-R Recorders.

You can buy 19" rack equipment that was designed for musicians... Something like this might work, if you cooled it properly. 6U of space will hold 6 1U servers. And they're made to be shipped around, so when you move you won't have to do too much to pack them up.

This is a DSPless implimentation, but DSP (digital signal processing) works well.

For about 1.5k, you can buy a digital amp that does all of this, and more, with a pickup fitted to your guitar.

Roland makes it. Here we are Roland VGA-7 amp

This is a (real)video of the companion product, a rackmount version of the neko. However, the video focuses on the custom front-end software, Karsyn, which is the glue that makes either system work as a unified live performance instrument.

OpenLabs-OMX

Also, there are still additional costs to this system with 3rd party plug-ins and virtual synths.

The best advice I can give you for a starter would be to spend the few extra dollars on 24/96 audio cards. I have yet to settle on a software package, but have used Cakewalk and ProTools so far. ProTools for the PC forces you to use ProTools hardware (that was at least a year ago, maybe they've changed since then, but I won't go back to 'em), but the Mac version doesn't have that problem. I like Cakewalk... hopefully someone with more software experience will reply to you though.

Otherwise, here's a decent link from Harmony-Central that might help.

AFAIU, latency is potentially much better on Linux than on both Windows and Mac. That is why Steinberg developed ASIO instead of using the native sound infrastructure.

elektron, the company that makes the sidstation is running out of SID chips..

last chance to get them..

Just when I thought /. was going to post something about guitar tabs...boy was I wrong...
sure you dont want to change name to slash-chord?

Reformatting for lazy clickers: Samson Zoom MRS-4, Korg PXR4

I use a Boss BR-532 digital 4 track. It uses SmartMedia to record to and has all kinds of built in effects, lots of different inputs, etc. It does everything an old cassette 4 track would do and more -- plus, you can always pull the tracks off the SmartMedia, convert them to WAV, and then do whatever you want with them in software. Also nice that you can keep up to 32 virtual tracks, meaning that you can do several re-takes on one track and compare them in the mix, without deleting any of the old tracks. There's more information about it on Harmony Central.

I once saw one that used Sony Minidiscs and supported only four tracks. It looked like this or this.

I bought a Digitech RP-6 6 or 7 years ago, and besides being a really fun toy, it let me do a ton of stuff really easily. Stomp a button, and get a totally new sound.. Hook direct into a PA and still sound good. I even used it in the studio without an amp, and hooked the stereo out right into the console. The RP-12 was even more impressive (I couldn't afford it at the time), and I haven't even looked at any of the new stuff in the past few years.

But the power of an effects unit that could process digital guitar.. that'd be damn cool. You wouldn't even have to buy a new amp, unless of course you wanted to buy the 5 more and have multistring surround :)

But I digress. I run this sucker straight into my SB Live! Value card on the line-in jack and use that GtkGEP program for some great sounds. You can run my Debian port of XDrum concurrently with GtkGEP so you have drum machine + guitar effects. You provide the guitar and the Linux :-)

It is sweet! Really, if Gibson has made digital guitar it should be a good thing considering you want to run clean into the computer and let it add all the effects and stuff. You can simulate a tube amp pretty well in software. Yeah I know that there are some pro musicians out there who are going to say that the only way to go is stick a mike in front of a tube amp. But music is all about experimentation. You rig up whatever crazy setup gives you a sound you like.

For the casual guitarist like myself, I have a lot of fun playing the inexpensive Epiphone and running it through Linux with all these spiffy programs, and I didn't have to spend much in the way of cash for a rack of expensive effects units.

Try it!

From a story here: "Gibson's MaGIC -- short for Media-accelerated Global Information Carrier -- makes standard Cat-5 Ethernet cable act like a super cable, capable of carrying up to 32 channels of 32-bit, 48 kHz uncompressed digital sound in both directions (64 channels total), with a control stream 100 times as powerful as MIDI over a single wire. It eliminates latency and jitter, allowing professional real-time sync of hundreds of instruments and devices (250 us point-to-point latency over 100 meters)."

SUMMARY: GIBSON GUITAR CORPORATION vs. D.N. CROWE
http://stephengoldin.com/gibson/summary.html

REPORTS OF THESE DEATHS ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED
http://stephengoldin.com/gibson/reports.html

A SETTLEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED http://stephengoldin.com/gibson/

It is also useful to see how Gibson handled the acquisition of Opcode.

Gibson vs. Opcode
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/645 4/

Somewhere on the Harmony Central website are some sobering remarks on Gibson's rebranding of third-party products as Opcode. I can't find the links at the moment, but the bottom line is that the goodwill associated with Opcode trademark has been squandered; one hopes that the same fate will not befall Gibson's efforts with the Magic platform.

If only they had open-sourced Opcode's software!

Line6 offer a better choice for most guitarist with their GuitarPort : it allows one to use its existing guitar with computer which'll model the required amp/cabs sounds...

Now, the laziest could also check out Steinberg's Virtual Guitarist...

Try Roland's software synth.

I think its free and has pretty decent sounds.

There exist devices called "dual CD players" that are capable of independently playing two different tracks simultaneously off of one disc. For example http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM02/Content/De non/PR/DN-D9000.html.

Are these devices inherently illegal?

Apparently, if you'd believe the Linux community, you'd be hard-pressed upon where to place the blame. You see, the Linuxist Manifesto's number one rule is to lie to protect the best interests of Linux. No self-respectable Linux zealot would insult or place blame upon AMD, because AMD's philosophy centers around tackling American Corporations with their Asian sweatshops, selling their chips at bargain-basement prices like the Red Menace Commies do with their Wal-Mart shit.

So, right about now, you're probably thinking that the zealots are clearly in a dilemma. Who are they going to blame? If you have a prediction before I tell you, the poll is on the right. Or maybe the left. Either way, take your pick.

You'd think that the parasitic community would place blame upon Microsoft, right? Alas, Microsoft has had the bug patched since September 2000. Not only that, Windows XP , the latest in the suite of high-powered, stable operating systems from Microsoft Corp., has this patch built in. That's right, built in. Keep in mind that Windows XP was released in October 2001, over three months ago. Meanwhile, no one knows what the hell Alan Cocks has been doing since then, since he hides under the cloak of secrecy. nVidia has been informing users via tech support, even to the Linux community, how to fix the problem for months now. Clearly the blame is upon Alan Cocks's shoulder, but to place the blame where it is rightfully justified is inexcusable in the Linux community. The drones are in disarray.

The actual bug occurs when Linux users contract the Tux Racer virus via KEmail. When first run, Tux Racer enables a feature in your third-world sweatshop AMD processor called "extended paging." Now, I know you're probably thinking that this sounds like some sort of Nokia feature. Well, you're wrong. It's yet another feature that AMD illegally hacked from Intel. It allows your browser to seamlessly view pages up to 4Mb in size. Before its introduction in the early days of the Intel Pentium processor, web pages were broken up into 4K segments, because any pages larger would freeze the computer. That's why Microsoft didn't invent Javascript until after the Pentium, every time they went to use it, their pages exceeded 4K, and henceforth froze the computer. Intel came to the rescue with the Pentium line of chips, and, as usual, AMD got out their super high tech Asian hacking tools and "reverse-engineered" (code-name for 'illegally hacked') Intel's technology. Thus, users of the inferior AMD Cyrix Kx86-2 Now! processor could also view large web pages without crashing. So why did no one notice that pages larger than 4K would crash AMD processors? Well, Microsoft has had a fix for 16 months, like we mentioned earlier. But why did no one from the Linux community notice? Well, apparently, there does not exist a page devoted to Linux that is more than 4K in size. Since most of the Linux installations out there denounce color as 'feature bloat,' all Linux pages follow an unwritten oath to suck. Believe me, they all do.

So, for the good of Linux, you may now disperse. Head off to various tech sites and continue blaming Microsoft for not telling you sooner. Your community will thank you.

Apparently, if you'd believe the Linux community, you'd be hard-pressed upon where to place the blame. You see, the Linuxist Manifesto's number one rule is to lie to protect the best interests of Linux. No self-respectable Linux zealot would insult or place blame upon AMD, because AMD's philosophy centers around tackling American Corporations with their Asian sweatshops, selling their chips at bargain-basement prices like the Red Menace Commies do with their Wal-Mart shit.

So, right about now, you're probably thinking that the zealots are clearly in a dilemma. Who are they going to blame? If you have a prediction before I tell you, the poll is on the right. Or maybe the left. Either way, take your pick.

You'd think that the parasitic community would place blame upon Microsoft, right? Alas, Microsoft has had the bug patched since September 2000. Not only that, Windows XP , the latest in the suite of high-powered, stable operating systems from Microsoft Corp., has this patch built in. That's right, built in. Keep in mind that Windows XP was released in October 2001, over three months ago. Meanwhile, no one knows what the hell Alan Cocks has been doing since then, since he hides under the cloak of secrecy. nVidia has been informing users via tech support, even to the Linux community, how to fix the problem for months now. Clearly the blame is upon Alan Cocks's shoulder, but to place the blame where it is rightfully justified is inexcusable in the Linux community. The drones are in disarray.

The actual bug occurs when Linux users contract the Tux Racer virus via KEmail. When first run, Tux Racer enables a feature in your third-world sweatshop AMD processor called "extended paging." Now, I know you're probably thinking that this sounds like some sort of Nokia feature. Well, you're wrong. It's yet another feature that AMD illegally hacked from Intel. It allows your browser to seamlessly view pages up to 4Mb in size. Before its introduction in the early days of the Intel Pentium processor, web pages were broken up into 4K segments, because any pages larger would freeze the computer. That's why Microsoft didn't invent Javascript until after the Pentium, every time they went to use it, their pages exceeded 4K, and henceforth froze the computer. Intel came to the rescue with the Pentium line of chips, and, as usual, AMD got out their super high tech Asian hacking tools and "reverse-engineered" (code-name for 'illegally hacked') Intel's technology. Thus, users of the inferior AMD Cyrix Kx86-2 Now! processor could also view large web pages without crashing. So why did no one notice that pages larger than 4K would crash AMD processors? Well, Microsoft has had a fix for 16 months, like we mentioned earlier. But why did no one from the Linux community notice? Well, apparently, there does not exist a page devoted to Linux that is more than 4K in size. Since most of the Linux installations out there denounce color as 'feature bloat,' all Linux pages follow an unwritten oath to suck. Believe me, they all do.

So, for the good of Linux, you may now disperse. Head off to various tech sites and continue blaming Microsoft for not telling you sooner. Your community will thank you.

Amen. So many of these slashdot questions (and I'm not usually so critical of them) are in the form of:

The rest of the world seems to have to do/pay X to make Y. I don't have X. How do I make Y?

Computer based musicians should know that it's a terribly expensive hobby. I say hobby, because, he's obviously not makin too much money off of it. What would he do if he actually had to pay for his software too (as the software will usually run you up into the 1000$'s once you have all the neccessary effect and software synth packages most comp based musicians need)? Oh wait, I guess he'd just ask where he could pick up Emagic Logic Audio on the cheap too ;)

As for the original question, going the lunch box route would be lunacy. They were not built for mobile musicians, so why not realize that the best route would be to figure out what other musicians of his industry demographic are doing? His underlying question would be far more appropriate on a comp-musician's website like Sonic State or Harmony Central ... you know you're on the right path when you're dealing with cheap enough gear thats not quite good enough, not when you're looking at aquiring super expensive gear thats likely overkill for your desired application and use on the cheap.

Mac OS is the go as far as desktop publishing is concerned.

W98SE is the go as far as games & application 'n driver compatibility is concerned.

BeOS is the 'bees knees' as far as music editing is concerned. Hence its the OS for the TASCAM SX-1 Integrated Audio Production Station & IZ Tech's RADAR 24, plus its the OS of choice for Edirol - Roland UA100

QNX is where its at for embedded applications, whether its the 'machine that goes beep' in hospitals or its nuclear reactors.

W2K/XP is/are where its at for the best balance of stability & compatibility for a desktop system

BSD is the server OS

Amiga classic is still consided by many to be the video editing platform. Have you seen the prices a 10 year old towered upraded video toaster goes for campared with a Wintel PC of the same age & new retail price?

Linux is the cheapskate OS for cheapscapes who have hangups about infringing on copyright, & is also the script kiddie OS of choice. Plus is the *nix OS for compatibility.

OS/2 is the bankers OS, being the OS of choice for ATM & counter teller workstations.

While Mac OSX has the potential to displace maybe more than half of the above.

That'l do for now

Give it a month and it'll disappear and resurface in a year with a new engineering team and engineering team

I can always find the TAB I want at Harmony Central's search engine and the search target always seems to be hosted on a different site all the time.

This would be very nice for dedicated machines that use hard drives...

Standalone Digital Audio Workstations:

• Tascam 788 PortaStudio
• Korg D1600
• Fostex VF-16 Ministudio

MP3 Players:

• Portables
• Auto

These sort of things get knocked around alot. And durability/reliability are doubly important for the multitrack machines. Be a shame to lose a great recording session, just cuz the drummer loses a stick and it whacks the unit halfway across the table.

(Yeah, a screwy example, but you get the point...)

This would be very nice for dedicated machines that use hard drives...

Standalone Digital Audio Workstations:

• Tascam 788 PortaStudio
• Korg D1600
• Fostex VF-16 Ministudio

MP3 Players:

• Portables
• Auto

These sort of things get knocked around alot. And durability/reliability are doubly important for the multitrack machines. Be a shame to lose a great recording session, just cuz the drummer loses a stick and it whacks the unit halfway across the table.

(Yeah, a screwy example, but you get the point...)