There is an argument for not using a general-purpose sound server when making music. Anecdote: a few years back, there was a song that got quite a bit of radio airplay that featured somewhere in the middle the sound effect on Windows for 'you've got mail'. It used to annoy the hell out of people who listened to the radio while working on their computer, and the radio station I was listening to at the time got a few complaints. So they decided to ask the musicians why this sound was on the record. The answer was that during the final mixdown, capturing the song to DAT tape or whatever, the person doing the mixdown had left the room for a minute - during that minute, some email arrived and the alert sound was played through the soundcard. The guy comes back into the room - the capture is done, and off goes the DAT to the CD pressing plant... Cheers Daniel
