3. That molecule is a polymerase. It can run down a DNA chain, unzip it, and build a protein as it goes. Yes, a little protein nanomachine? How cool is that? And to think you wanted to write web sites instead. C'mon. Try doing something useful!;)
Very interesting - thanks - and it's a whooooole lot less complicated than the innards of the Windows kernel.
I always used to judge the general well-being of the I.T industry by how lavish the christmas parties were. In the good years there were parties on yachts, triple hull catamarans with a live band and a dance floor large enough for a lot of people, parties on the 50th floor of some luxury hotel as opposed to of late christmas parties where everyone had to chuck in to afford it.
It's rather obvious to say 'water, health and food' are the growth industries because what human on the planet does not require those. Anyone with a minute amount of sense would want to get into the food (or health) industry because it is a massive market and water is so massive it is in the domain of government. Buy stocks in good water filtration technology companies, of course they grow - have you drank anything with water in it today, of course you have.
The IT industry is unique because it disrupts horizontal *and* vertical markets with new innovations. There is always going to be vertical markets that require innovation using technology, and IMHO the energy market is on that is ripe to have the efficiencies information technology can bring to it. The only time there are bottlenecks to this growth is when you have a existing business model lobby to reinforce the status-quo and prevent innovation. Case in point: The music industry, who knows what innovations would have been built on top of reshaping that industry.
He could be right, it's just hard to believe there is no more innovation left in the I.T industry, isn't that I.T's job?
This is a classic example of externalities being dumped onto the community. No matter what happens the taxpayer will bare the burden of cleaning the toxicity of GM's effluent be it a federal or state government. What's worse is I doubt there are any obligations on the "new GM" to improve their practices to avoid the exact same scenario in the future.
Clearly our (international) systems of corporate governance is so outdated that requires significant review and improvement to bring it into the 21st century.
This is not capitalism any more it's corporatism, if it was capitalism you wouldn't hear phrases "Too big to fail" you would be hearing "You should have managed your business better". What I don't understand is why individual welfare that mitigates social problems such as preventing people from falling into crime is discouraged and corporate welfare that encourages white collar crime is applauded(???).
For there to be future sustainable business models they must go beyond environmental sustainability, which is the entry point. We are going to have to see business models emerge that are fiscally sustainable, socially sustainable and have agencies with enough teeth to re-write or revoke corporate charters if business does not behave like a good corporate citizen. I don't just mean the veneer of 'corporate responsibility' but measurable responsibility as in 'how much waste was re-processed' and liability that reaches right back into those who made and funded the type of decisions that leave communities hundreds of millions of dollars of externalities to contend with. In essence that is converting taxpayer money into shareholder dividends by forcing those externalities onto the taxpayer.
If we don't we are going to find ourselves in a real depression when the real costs of these externalities are realised, capitalism a spent economic force and corporatism too big to sustain.
Don't confuse smoking with nicotine -- the former is a delivery mechanism for the latter. One need not smoke to take nicotine -- they are not inextricably linked.
I know, you're right. My brother smokes - a lot - and he is schizophrenic now I know why he smokes so much - it sucks. Thing is he wants to stop (we all want him to stop) and so he tried using the nicotine patches.
Once I can take my VSTs with me then it becomes a sersious contender.
There is a framework that exists to provide VST functionality under linux. One of the issues I understand is that many VST plugins don't actually comply to the VST specification.
Yeah but its not like if I recompile my binary then that 6/8 middle section is going to flow into the verse better is it?
No, but it may allow you to use that extra plugin before your system passes a critical threshold into being unusable or unstable. Bad at 2am when you are flowing.
With a modern DAW I dont see why you would ever want to route audio to another application
It's better to have and not need than to need and not have - is the saying. Innovation is a iterative process and that is why I made the statements I did. Audio applications are increasing that use the Jack framework. For example what about running all your VST plugins on a separate machine?
I suppose but quite frankly a windows OEM license is what a hundred bucks or so so by the time Ive wasted 2 or 3 hours trying to setup linux the windows license has paid for itself.
Not at all, why do you think it's 2-3 hours. Ubuntu Studio is a single DVD install to get the apps you want for audio OR video production, plus you never have virus issues on Linux boxes. I have plenty of experience using windows machines and I find the degradation of performance over time intolerable - usually resulting in a re-install. Then there is Studio64, Project ccrma. The choice to go for enhanced performance was mine because I am recording live musicians sometimes as opposed to generating sounds.
Hardware of course you are fairly limited on what you can even use on linux so I doubt you get the most band for buck when your buying your interface either.
What hardware do you mean. I just installed a X58 motherboards an i7 920 to do video production work and everything worked out of the box. To do the same thing under windows I would have had to install SP3 to use all the cores, the hyperthread patch to use more than one thread per core and I still would not have been able to address all the base memory of 6Gb, so I should be able to do more with the same hardware. For all the high end audio gear (which is what Jack is aimed at) all the big names are supported in kernel.
for people who arent interested in the technology aspect the workflow isnt optimal with a far to high barrier to entry in terms of initial configuration.
Well whatever floats your boat - but I don't understand how you can make this assessment if you haven't actually used it? If you don't want to that's ok but all I'm saying is i've done it, it works, it's stable the results are quite good. Do what you want to do dood - that what software freedom is about.
This is the same problem linux has in other creative spaces.
Don't forget linux is a creative space all of it's own. There is no Linux Corporation Pty Ltd and what is happening is that programmers are creating audio applications in that creative space. Call me an early adopter, I'm not saying it's the be and end all but it is definately a innovative platform.
It's an M-Audio Delta 1010. I've had it for many years now, since they first came out in fact, and I've always been very happy with it. I've heard they're a popular choice for running under Linux, although I've never tried it.
These are the cards I have using Jack to gang them together as one 16 channel card (timing via sp/dif). With a single card you should find that jack will automatically configure it for 10 inputs (2xsp/dif & 8xanalogue input). The chip "desk" controller software is included and is called "envy24control". Hope this info is useful to you if you have a chance to give it a try.
Out of respect for the band, that is their decision, I have broached the idea with them though.
Or can you make some tutorials or at least blog about the process?
I wish I had time to. I've never really been fond of blogging. I might but Slashdot is really escape time for me when I read or post. With the exception of how I set up audio compression and neat little reverb patches I don't think there is anything much different to how I would approach recording or mixing under Linux or Mac or Windows. The difference is that the Jack layer seems to afford a unique flexibility that eliminates the mix-down stage of music production. I will yield to those with greater experience than myself though. I go into a bit of detail in the other post here.
I think your intuitiveness into the process can help alot of nay sayers and those struggle to accomplish what you have
Thank you, you are very kind. In reality, like any platform you use it comes down to doing the hard work. I can understand anyone who uses a Mac or Windows for audio work being reluctant to give up their investment in time once they have got it going the way they want. For me it was simple though, I did a variety of tests under windows and found some un-avoidable barriers. A mac/pro-tools rig would have eaten into my budget to buy other equipment with still no guarantee of achieving the performance goals I'd set.
My initial risk with doing it under linux was that the software wouldn't do what I wanted but knowing I could resolve the system issues myself I decided the risk for me was my time, which I could afford. For me (and my bands), despite initial frustrations, the risk paid off.
plus jazz is a great form of music to test competency of an audio workstation.
Despite my confidence in my platform I had a sense of trepidation akin to the feeling of watching a fighter step into the ring when the band showed up. These guys had *zero* tolerance for system issues and had been recorded in several commercial analogue studios. I was soo nervous, they were giving me a chance. In the end of the process though they were astounded at the results and actually asked if I had enough time to record their *whole* band (vocals, cornet, percussion, piano, double bass, semi-acoustic guitar and drums - yipes!)
They wanted to know more about my system and were dumbfounded when I revealed that it was entirely Linux based and became immediate converts. They told me they passed the recordings onto other audio engineers who enjoyed the production but expressed confusion to me at the response they received when they revealed how it was done. One guys actually sneered at them and said "oh it was done on free software" as if that made the effort any less valid. They asked me if I get that a lot and I simply said to them 'does it make you wonder if that guy would have sneered at a free rescue at sea' as if it would make the rescue any less valid?
I'd actually like more than 16 channels. I have two desks one of which is dedicated to drums, actually come to think of it, a whole 8 channel sound card and room is dedicated to drums. I used to record on 8 channels for a while but the additional flexibility afforded by the additional channels gave me the control over aspects of the sound that I really needed.
May I suggest you try an installation of Wubi? It is the the Ubuntu under windows version of Ubuntu and Ubuntu studio (Try Ubuntu studio - which is quite usable and attractive) and it allows you to keep your existing setup. One thing I would suggest though is to do a disk clean-up and de-fragment before attempting the installation, if you are interested. This should allow you a low risk way to try these things out. Out of interest what multi-input sound interface are you using?
Whatever you do I hope you are enjoying your adventures in sound.
If I've got the wrong end of the stick about how you work, and what you do really isn't possible in Windows, please do correct my misconceptions.
Thank you for your most polite response. My experiences were limited to XP, I do understand that this may have changed in Vista and Seven. My particular experiences in windows was that the file system performance fell off after 32Gb even if I was using a RAID array. I compared the filesystem performance of several different filesystems and reiserfs trounced *all* comers. Throughput to disk was not adequate for my needs under windows, unfortunately. There are other reasons but you might want to check out my other response in this thread.
You apparently have failed to discover the master bus in most audio software.
Well I don't use 'most audio software'. I use Linux, alsa, Jack, Ardour and Jamin where I have found the master bus.
What I said was gives the type of control over the production process I've not seen duplicated using a Mac and I was referring to my friends who produce music by creating a 24bit stereo 44.1Khz audio file post mix down prior to mastering. So perhaps it was the limit of their audio production skills and not the mac software they were using, please forgive my ignorance if this is the case. When I started recording I was using Logic, which was ok but frankly I wasn't interested in spending the thousands of dollars on a MAC and pro-tools. With the money I saved I have 16 input channels at 96Khz and I bought *a lot* of really good microphones.
Do you know Jack?
It's not the same as having plugins that go into your tracks and buses, which are still there in the various audio softwares. If you have your multi-tracking software running and start mastering software or any other audio software like another multi-track software, synths whatever *each* available audio input or output appear as an available input or output for every audio application. I can route the output of one program into two others or route audio from one machine to another machine and back again off-setting processing time onto another machine entirely. Further, using a nifty piece of software called qjackctrl it's possible to route various audio paths between those programs and save that plumbing for later use.
If you can do that in your chosen platform, then I must be wrong, if you can't then you don't know Jack.
You can run Jack on Mac and (I think) windows but the applications have to be jack aware. However whilst re-ordering interrupts is a fairly straightforward way to reduce latency, I don't think windows or Mac will allow you to re-compile the kernel and remove the unnecessary drivers, change the scheduler or plug in nice fast file systems like reiserfs. Will your various software vendors give you the source code to their applications and allow you to recompile it on your system so you can optimise it for the type of processor you use and strip the binary so it takes less memory? For these factors I think the audio latency achievable under linux cannot be achieved on Mac or Windows.
You may not be interested in doing these things, but I can tell you that this effort - which only occurs when you set the machine up anyway - results in an exceptionally fast and stable system whilst maximising return on equipment investment. Which is exactly what I want if I've gone to the trouble of organising several musicians to show up in a studio to record over a couple of days.
Thing is, your civil liberties group is likely a special interest lobby group too.
This is quite an idiotic statement. All these professional people (including me) *donate* their time to maintain *your* freedom. No one gets paid to do this, no one pays the politicians involved via campaign donations.
Stop painting things with such a big brush or you end up looking like a) a hypocrite or b) a know-nothing.
I spent *my* time lobbying to have previsions like full body cavity searches taken out of anti-terrorism laws and you may have got commercial benefit from not having to pay thousands of dollars in fees to have your web site rated in the same way television media (amongst other things).
So I ask you How much time have you spent reviewing proposed legislation? What have you done to protect your fellow citizens rights? How many letters have you written to politicians? If you don't have an answer to those questions I'd suggest you should probably take your head out of your ass.
I just finished recording and producing a jazz album using Project CCRMA hosted on Fedora. The recording through to the final mastering were all done using linux. Having read his article I was surprised to find he hadn't mastered his production using Jamin which, when used in combination with Ardour and Jack, gives the type of control over the production process I've not seen duplicated using a Mac (Windows is not capable at all in this regard). I suppose though that is the workflow he is used to.
The innovation is what it means to the production process. There is no mixdown to a 24bit 44.1Khz stereo track prior to mastering and you can render your tracks through the mastering software into the final tracks and tweak automation artifacts instead of compromising by using equalisation. Sure you still equalise but you end up doing less as you can refer back to the master if there is a problem and fix it there. Plus you have better control over (audio gain) compression to reduce transients and maintain dynamic range in the final product.
The bands that listen to my recording are amazed at the results (well my recording techniques *ahem* do play some part:-) and some asked me if it was done on analogue equipment - which is quite a compliment. The thing is sure, it's not perfect and sometimes frustrating because the your hardware is often pushed to it's limit, you find bugs you have to adjust your work flow around but simply put I don't think the capability *exists* anywhere else.
I've been using it since 2003 and have seen the foundation laid down by Alsa and Jack projects continually refined. Often the criticism is made that 'linux copies this or that' but after comparing it to existing processes it seems to me that audio production under Linux is on the leading edge of technology as the framework for innovation in music production.
I've been involved in a Civil Liberties group that reviews and lobbies legislation for appropriate changes prior to them becoming law, something quite different from the EFF. From my initial conversations organisations like this are in need of people with a technological bent to advise them on the ramifications of technology legislation before it passes into law.
It's not the first time I've done it and I've found that if you you are polite to the ministers involved they are quite responsive and will listen to what you have to say and if they see your name often enough they will ask you for advice, they asked me. It's interesting to see the changes you suggest actually either make it into law or not make it into law due to your lobbying.
Thing is, it's not a game. If you don't act then, incrementally, freedoms will be whittled away. If it's not by the lobbying of a special interest group (for example Microsoft with the Xbox) then it will be by a knee jerk reaction to something else that has happened. Once it's passed into law it's very unlikely that it will *ever* be rolled-back.
The opposite number of Rupert Murdoch in Australia for many years, Kerry Packer once said that he loved it when the government tried to legislate for his interests to behave a certain way as the more legislation that was made the more loopholes there would be to allow him to do exactly what he wanted to do.
Hopefully people will realize how important the space program is, but something tells me that it won't be soon, and it won't be until we get something inspiring.
I've got an idea for inspiring people, just like the moon fakers have a conspiracy theory we can make up our own conspiracy. Just tell em a asteroid is due to hit the earth and it's being covered up. If we don't get of this rock we're all gonna die, yeah it's being covered up because they don't want to spend real money on a space program.
Now thats a conspiracy!
But sadly that's probably the kind of motivation that people are going to need, stoopid huh?
And cue the "the Mars mission was obviously faked! there's no way they wouldn't have landed if it was REAL!" conspiracy theories in 3, 2...
That's gonna happen and we can't do anything about it until they can visit it in some tourist attraction on a moon trip one day, until then it's pointless wasting energy on trying to explain the evidence to people like that.
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Very interesting - thanks - and it's a whooooole lot less complicated than the innards of the Windows kernel.
btw - it runs good under linux too!
Ahem! you could have pointed to the download page where you can download it for a variety of platforms.
I always used to judge the general well-being of the I.T industry by how lavish the christmas parties were. In the good years there were parties on yachts, triple hull catamarans with a live band and a dance floor large enough for a lot of people, parties on the 50th floor of some luxury hotel as opposed to of late christmas parties where everyone had to chuck in to afford it.
It's rather obvious to say 'water, health and food' are the growth industries because what human on the planet does not require those. Anyone with a minute amount of sense would want to get into the food (or health) industry because it is a massive market and water is so massive it is in the domain of government. Buy stocks in good water filtration technology companies, of course they grow - have you drank anything with water in it today, of course you have.
The IT industry is unique because it disrupts horizontal *and* vertical markets with new innovations. There is always going to be vertical markets that require innovation using technology, and IMHO the energy market is on that is ripe to have the efficiencies information technology can bring to it. The only time there are bottlenecks to this growth is when you have a existing business model lobby to reinforce the status-quo and prevent innovation. Case in point: The music industry, who knows what innovations would have been built on top of reshaping that industry.
He could be right, it's just hard to believe there is no more innovation left in the I.T industry, isn't that I.T's job?
This is a classic example of externalities being dumped onto the community. No matter what happens the taxpayer will bare the burden of cleaning the toxicity of GM's effluent be it a federal or state government. What's worse is I doubt there are any obligations on the "new GM" to improve their practices to avoid the exact same scenario in the future.
Clearly our (international) systems of corporate governance is so outdated that requires significant review and improvement to bring it into the 21st century.
This is not capitalism any more it's corporatism, if it was capitalism you wouldn't hear phrases "Too big to fail" you would be hearing "You should have managed your business better". What I don't understand is why individual welfare that mitigates social problems such as preventing people from falling into crime is discouraged and corporate welfare that encourages white collar crime is applauded(???).
For there to be future sustainable business models they must go beyond environmental sustainability, which is the entry point. We are going to have to see business models emerge that are fiscally sustainable, socially sustainable and have agencies with enough teeth to re-write or revoke corporate charters if business does not behave like a good corporate citizen. I don't just mean the veneer of 'corporate responsibility' but measurable responsibility as in 'how much waste was re-processed' and liability that reaches right back into those who made and funded the type of decisions that leave communities hundreds of millions of dollars of externalities to contend with. In essence that is converting taxpayer money into shareholder dividends by forcing those externalities onto the taxpayer.
If we don't we are going to find ourselves in a real depression when the real costs of these externalities are realised, capitalism a spent economic force and corporatism too big to sustain.
Thanks for the info, gotta say though I've seen your sig a couple of times it's hilarious.
Ok thanks, I'll check it out!
I know, you're right. My brother smokes - a lot - and he is schizophrenic now I know why he smokes so much - it sucks. Thing is he wants to stop (we all want him to stop) and so he tried using the nicotine patches.
Now he smokes *and* wears nicotine patches.
Did I say it sucks.
Also has vitamin C in it and is known to protect the little teddy bears from the bogey man at night.
Plus, it's such an attractive look.
There is a framework that exists to provide VST functionality under linux. One of the issues I understand is that many VST plugins don't actually comply to the VST specification.
No, but it may allow you to use that extra plugin before your system passes a critical threshold into being unusable or unstable. Bad at 2am when you are flowing.
It's better to have and not need than to need and not have - is the saying. Innovation is a iterative process and that is why I made the statements I did. Audio applications are increasing that use the Jack framework. For example what about running all your VST plugins on a separate machine?
Not at all, why do you think it's 2-3 hours. Ubuntu Studio is a single DVD install to get the apps you want for audio OR video production, plus you never have virus issues on Linux boxes. I have plenty of experience using windows machines and I find the degradation of performance over time intolerable - usually resulting in a re-install. Then there is Studio64, Project ccrma. The choice to go for enhanced performance was mine because I am recording live musicians sometimes as opposed to generating sounds.
What hardware do you mean. I just installed a X58 motherboards an i7 920 to do video production work and everything worked out of the box. To do the same thing under windows I would have had to install SP3 to use all the cores, the hyperthread patch to use more than one thread per core and I still would not have been able to address all the base memory of 6Gb, so I should be able to do more with the same hardware. For all the high end audio gear (which is what Jack is aimed at) all the big names are supported in kernel.
Well whatever floats your boat - but I don't understand how you can make this assessment if you haven't actually used it? If you don't want to that's ok but all I'm saying is i've done it, it works, it's stable the results are quite good. Do what you want to do dood - that what software freedom is about.
Don't forget linux is a creative space all of it's own. There is no Linux Corporation Pty Ltd and what is happening is that programmers are creating audio applications in that creative space. Call me an early adopter, I'm not saying it's the be and end all but it is definately a innovative platform.
These are the cards I have using Jack to gang them together as one 16 channel card (timing via sp/dif). With a single card you should find that jack will automatically configure it for 10 inputs (2xsp/dif & 8xanalogue input). The chip "desk" controller software is included and is called "envy24control". Hope this info is useful to you if you have a chance to give it a try.
Out of respect for the band, that is their decision, I have broached the idea with them though.
I wish I had time to. I've never really been fond of blogging. I might but Slashdot is really escape time for me when I read or post. With the exception of how I set up audio compression and neat little reverb patches I don't think there is anything much different to how I would approach recording or mixing under Linux or Mac or Windows. The difference is that the Jack layer seems to afford a unique flexibility that eliminates the mix-down stage of music production. I will yield to those with greater experience than myself though. I go into a bit of detail in the other post here.
Thank you, you are very kind. In reality, like any platform you use it comes down to doing the hard work. I can understand anyone who uses a Mac or Windows for audio work being reluctant to give up their investment in time once they have got it going the way they want. For me it was simple though, I did a variety of tests under windows and found some un-avoidable barriers. A mac/pro-tools rig would have eaten into my budget to buy other equipment with still no guarantee of achieving the performance goals I'd set.
My initial risk with doing it under linux was that the software wouldn't do what I wanted but knowing I could resolve the system issues myself I decided the risk for me was my time, which I could afford. For me (and my bands), despite initial frustrations, the risk paid off.
Despite my confidence in my platform I had a sense of trepidation akin to the feeling of watching a fighter step into the ring when the band showed up. These guys had *zero* tolerance for system issues and had been recorded in several commercial analogue studios. I was soo nervous, they were giving me a chance. In the end of the process though they were astounded at the results and actually asked if I had enough time to record their *whole* band (vocals, cornet, percussion, piano, double bass, semi-acoustic guitar and drums - yipes!)
They wanted to know more about my system and were dumbfounded when I revealed that it was entirely Linux based and became immediate converts. They told me they passed the recordings onto other audio engineers who enjoyed the production but expressed confusion to me at the response they received when they revealed how it was done. One guys actually sneered at them and said "oh it was done on free software" as if that made the effort any less valid. They asked me if I get that a lot and I simply said to them 'does it make you wonder if that guy would have sneered at a free rescue at sea' as if it would make the rescue any less valid?
I'd actually like more than 16 channels. I have two desks one of which is dedicated to drums, actually come to think of it, a whole 8 channel sound card and room is dedicated to drums. I used to record on 8 channels for a while but the additional flexibility afforded by the additional channels gave me the control over aspects of the sound that I really needed.
May I suggest you try an installation of Wubi? It is the the Ubuntu under windows version of Ubuntu and Ubuntu studio (Try Ubuntu studio - which is quite usable and attractive) and it allows you to keep your existing setup. One thing I would suggest though is to do a disk clean-up and de-fragment before attempting the installation, if you are interested. This should allow you a low risk way to try these things out. Out of interest what multi-input sound interface are you using?
Whatever you do I hope you are enjoying your adventures in sound.
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Thank you for your most polite response. My experiences were limited to XP, I do understand that this may have changed in Vista and Seven. My particular experiences in windows was that the file system performance fell off after 32Gb even if I was using a RAID array. I compared the filesystem performance of several different filesystems and reiserfs trounced *all* comers. Throughput to disk was not adequate for my needs under windows, unfortunately. There are other reasons but you might want to check out my other response in this thread.
Well I don't use 'most audio software'. I use Linux, alsa, Jack, Ardour and Jamin where I have found the master bus.
What I said was gives the type of control over the production process I've not seen duplicated using a Mac and I was referring to my friends who produce music by creating a 24bit stereo 44.1Khz audio file post mix down prior to mastering. So perhaps it was the limit of their audio production skills and not the mac software they were using, please forgive my ignorance if this is the case. When I started recording I was using Logic, which was ok but frankly I wasn't interested in spending the thousands of dollars on a MAC and pro-tools. With the money I saved I have 16 input channels at 96Khz and I bought *a lot* of really good microphones.
Do you know Jack?
It's not the same as having plugins that go into your tracks and buses, which are still there in the various audio softwares. If you have your multi-tracking software running and start mastering software or any other audio software like another multi-track software, synths whatever *each* available audio input or output appear as an available input or output for every audio application. I can route the output of one program into two others or route audio from one machine to another machine and back again off-setting processing time onto another machine entirely. Further, using a nifty piece of software called qjackctrl it's possible to route various audio paths between those programs and save that plumbing for later use.
If you can do that in your chosen platform, then I must be wrong, if you can't then you don't know Jack.
You can run Jack on Mac and (I think) windows but the applications have to be jack aware. However whilst re-ordering interrupts is a fairly straightforward way to reduce latency, I don't think windows or Mac will allow you to re-compile the kernel and remove the unnecessary drivers, change the scheduler or plug in nice fast file systems like reiserfs. Will your various software vendors give you the source code to their applications and allow you to recompile it on your system so you can optimise it for the type of processor you use and strip the binary so it takes less memory? For these factors I think the audio latency achievable under linux cannot be achieved on Mac or Windows.
You may not be interested in doing these things, but I can tell you that this effort - which only occurs when you set the machine up anyway - results in an exceptionally fast and stable system whilst maximising return on equipment investment. Which is exactly what I want if I've gone to the trouble of organising several musicians to show up in a studio to record over a couple of days.
This is quite an idiotic statement. All these professional people (including me) *donate* their time to maintain *your* freedom. No one gets paid to do this, no one pays the politicians involved via campaign donations.
I spent *my* time lobbying to have previsions like full body cavity searches taken out of anti-terrorism laws and you may have got commercial benefit from not having to pay thousands of dollars in fees to have your web site rated in the same way television media (amongst other things).
So I ask you How much time have you spent reviewing proposed legislation? What have you done to protect your fellow citizens rights? How many letters have you written to politicians? If you don't have an answer to those questions I'd suggest you should probably take your head out of your ass.
I just finished recording and producing a jazz album using Project CCRMA hosted on Fedora. The recording through to the final mastering were all done using linux. Having read his article I was surprised to find he hadn't mastered his production using Jamin which, when used in combination with Ardour and Jack, gives the type of control over the production process I've not seen duplicated using a Mac (Windows is not capable at all in this regard). I suppose though that is the workflow he is used to.
The innovation is what it means to the production process. There is no mixdown to a 24bit 44.1Khz stereo track prior to mastering and you can render your tracks through the mastering software into the final tracks and tweak automation artifacts instead of compromising by using equalisation. Sure you still equalise but you end up doing less as you can refer back to the master if there is a problem and fix it there. Plus you have better control over (audio gain) compression to reduce transients and maintain dynamic range in the final product.
The bands that listen to my recording are amazed at the results (well my recording techniques *ahem* do play some part :-) and some asked me if it was done on analogue equipment - which is quite a compliment. The thing is sure, it's not perfect and sometimes frustrating because the your hardware is often pushed to it's limit, you find bugs you have to adjust your work flow around but simply put I don't think the capability *exists* anywhere else.
I've been using it since 2003 and have seen the foundation laid down by Alsa and Jack projects continually refined. Often the criticism is made that 'linux copies this or that' but after comparing it to existing processes it seems to me that audio production under Linux is on the leading edge of technology as the framework for innovation in music production.
I've been involved in a Civil Liberties group that reviews and lobbies legislation for appropriate changes prior to them becoming law, something quite different from the EFF. From my initial conversations organisations like this are in need of people with a technological bent to advise them on the ramifications of technology legislation before it passes into law.
It's not the first time I've done it and I've found that if you you are polite to the ministers involved they are quite responsive and will listen to what you have to say and if they see your name often enough they will ask you for advice, they asked me. It's interesting to see the changes you suggest actually either make it into law or not make it into law due to your lobbying.
Thing is, it's not a game. If you don't act then, incrementally, freedoms will be whittled away. If it's not by the lobbying of a special interest group (for example Microsoft with the Xbox) then it will be by a knee jerk reaction to something else that has happened. Once it's passed into law it's very unlikely that it will *ever* be rolled-back.
The opposite number of Rupert Murdoch in Australia for many years, Kerry Packer once said that he loved it when the government tried to legislate for his interests to behave a certain way as the more legislation that was made the more loopholes there would be to allow him to do exactly what he wanted to do.
I suspect the same thing will happen here.
Maybe they just think that no one has used those words in that particular order before.
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I've got an idea for inspiring people, just like the moon fakers have a conspiracy theory we can make up our own conspiracy. Just tell em a asteroid is due to hit the earth and it's being covered up. If we don't get of this rock we're all gonna die , yeah it's being covered up because they don't want to spend real money on a space program.
Now thats a conspiracy!
But sadly that's probably the kind of motivation that people are going to need, stoopid huh?
That's gonna happen and we can't do anything about it until they can visit it in some tourist attraction on a moon trip one day, until then it's pointless wasting energy on trying to explain the evidence to people like that.