In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Anonymous
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on Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:58:28 +0200 (CEST)
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wrote:
That's very funny!
Do you do card tricks as well?
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The problem with you Linux freaks is that you are living in your own
twisted world where everything is Linux.
The real world is not like that and while many of us would LIKE to see
Linux versions of our favorite applications, we also are
educated enough to realize that Linux has a long, long, long way to go
before it can ever start knocking on heaven's, err, Protools door.
What bizarre stretch of illogic is it that leads you to believe even
Linux audio applications of 5 years ago would care to debase themselves
by knocking on doors so far beneath them?
Linux has been, and always will be, the world's premier audio
processing environment.
I highly much doubt that, if only because the two are such
skew concepts. Bear in mind what audio ultimately *is*:
a series of vibrations in the air. Generation of such can
be done in a number of ways, and the traditional method
(from an electrical standpoint) is probably through
a series of rack-mounted equipment jacked together by
high-quality patchcords. Simulators will not care whether
the presentation layer runs on Windows/Win32 or Linux/X;
the actual engine work won't really care whether they are
doing realtime audio using Linux's audio device or Windows'
system resources, as long as they work -- and Windows does
work in this area (as does Linux).
There are also the bandwidth requirements; for 44100 Hz,
32 stereo channels, 16 bits, no compression, one is only
looking at 90.3 Mbit/s at the very very most. That's not
all that much, compared to 32 channels of uncompressed
video. A 3.2 GHz machine gets about 567 machine clock
cycles per channel side. Presumably, that's more than
enough for a fixed-point or floating-point multiply and
sum for a mixdown.
Ideally, the purveyors of high-end software (and the card
interface hardware that it might drive) would support
as many operating systems as it makes economic sense
to support -- this most likely means Windows for the time
being, until Linux gains a certain critical mass in the
music community.
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