Greetings: Thanks again to everyone who listened to my latest offering. I have more stuff to put on-line (I've been busy), but it'll have to wait until I get back from India, where I'll be presenting Ardour and other Linux audio softs at the FOSS-IN conference, Nov 29 through Dec 2. Another song and some instrumentals are on the way. I wanted to note that the recording and mix were done with Ardour 0.99 on an 800 MHz machine (AMD Duron cpu) running Red Hat 9 with a 2.4 kernel (an old Planet CCRMA system). No xruns occurred during any part of the process. I also wanted to send deep thanks to Paul and all other Ardour developers. As I learn to use Ardour more effectively I'm constantly amazed and pleased at how easily I can do the jobs required. A friend stopped by last night, he runs Pro Tools in a small home studio that's much nicer than my little setup. He was most impressed by Ardour and rather upset that I got such a better sound from my system than he's getting from his. Well, I'm sure that some of that is because he's not fully conversant with his system, but it does point to the effectiveness of Linux as a viable platform for serious audio work. And of course my buddy was *really* upset when he considered the cost-effectiveness of Linux+Ardour against what it cost him to gear up with PT and its requirements. I'm lovin' it... :) Best, dp
