On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > 1) second the validity of your statements regarding OS representation > > > > (LAU is a pretty insular community, sometimes it feels bigger than it > > > > is) > > > > > > Sadly it's exactly the opposite. > > > > Bottom line, these companies are not stupid. They know where the money > > is, and it ain't on LAU. If it were, they'd be here too. > > Yep...however the smart ones look for ways to both incrementally > increase revenue, and then also to create revolutionary changes. I > keep thinking that one of these days Digi will come out with a closed > system that is Linux based and includes the PC itself. Incrementally > it wouldn't cost them all that much to add a PC to some unit like the > 002 Rack. Most users would use external audio drives so internal > storage requiremments aren't that high. They'd have control of the OS > and it would be stable. > > For the last 6 months PTLE users have been caught in a bind. No PTLE > versions run on XP Service Pack 2 so all PTLE systems have to stick > with a bad version of Windows that isn't getting updates. I'm scared > to do much on the net with my PTLE machine. I don't know why Digi > hasn't fixed this. I guess it's hard. The plugin vendors have told us > their plugins aren't stable on SP2 either, so it's a mess. Same on the OSX world, AFAIK, PT does not run on the latest versions. -- Fernando
