[Coco] Utilmuse 3 Manual

[Bill Pierce]

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. 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 recording 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 :-)


Bill Pierce
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> The
 stuff today has full blown computer systems with built in touch screens
 and blindingly fast. Usually if there's lag now, I find it's in my own
 system. Usually it's too much junk running in the background. Close all
 the extras and it clears up.
<This then is screaming for bringing in the RTAI package.  Its a linux only 
construction and is what the free emc (electronic machine control) uses to 
facilitate the use of strong stepper motors to drive lathes and milling 
machine, robots etc, where the problems in driving steppers to their full 
potential are highlighted by how steady a step command can be sent.  You 
can't expect a motor with mass in its rotor and load, to stop from 400 rpm 
for 10 milliseconds, and re-accelerate back to 400 rpm when something 
disturbs the system and 3 steps don't get sent on time.  It will simply 
stall in place=wrecked part and/or broken $20-$50 cutting tools.
<It can be set to loop and update the parport in as little as 15 u-secs on 
fast enough machines.  On the box that runs my mill, it is set for 35 u-
seconds, and that leaves enough iron in a 1400mhz Athlon single core that I 
can run sessions of vim to fine tune the gcode, of firefox on window 3, and 
a session of Konversation, the IRC client, on window 4.  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 
install.