} > best is going to get "poo-pooed" by the Cubase and Pro-Tools } > supremacists... It could give linux another exceptional tool. } } You're not joking about the ProTools snobs. I'm not calling them snobs. The limited exposure I have to protools {free on '98 and the stuff that comes with Avid} has all been really good. It's an excellent product as far as I can tell. I'm just talking about the closed minded attitude that folk tend to get... Their refusal to entertain other ideas {Like the response you get when you mention linux as a valid platform for multimedia} ...Podium could be the best, most original and most happenin' program going... {I do think it's a damned good program} and it wouldn't go anywhere simply because it's not Cubase or whatever happens to be the "best" at any particular time. Unfortunately most of society seems to be a victim of this dire and terrible illness... {At least it seems that way to me most of the time.} Like a lot of excellent programs out there it won't go anywhere near as far as it deserves to... I'm still surprised that Live has gotten as far as it has. :} I sort of wonder how Melodyne is doing as far as sales go. It strikes me as massively strange that Squeak and Visual Works aren't on every desktop in America. {...Maybe not "every" desktop.} I still wonder why AmiPro just fizzled and why Aldus had to fold. {We won't even mention Corel} {'Course I also wonder why Display never became wildly popular {video editing in dos in the early '9os} and why VIPs doesn't ship with the gimp package... :}} } I'm not "Mr. Pro Audio/Video" by any means, but my encounters with such in } casual settings show a very high penetration of ProTools in those areas, and } they are of the mind that nothing else worth considering exists. } } It is well-made, purpose-built, and clean. Back in the dark ages when I } used to design RAID stuff, I used to work with digidesign on latency issues } to/from storage subsystems in the early days when thermal recalibration } could cause audio recording problems. What are you saying here? ---------------------------------- E-Mail: RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 05-Jul-2004 Time: 00:33:57 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------