[LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 14:56:12 UTC 2010


On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>Hi Gene :)
[huge snip]
>> Being an ardent purist can bite you.  As another friend of mine would
>> say, use what works.
>
>No Windows! If needed I'll write to your friend and get that Atari-VGA
>interface, get a SMPTE interface again and an anlog audio recorder
>again. I also would change the SCSI hard disk in the Lacom interface,
>it's a 42 MB Seagate, without any free space and it sometimes fails on
>startup. The main problem is, that I don't have the money jet and it's
>not that easy to get the money. Another issue is, that I guess it's time
>to use modern software, because it also comes with some advantages
>compared to 80ies software made for the Atari and to the very old
>hardware. E.g. what would happen if one day a chip in the Steinberg
>dongle should break?


It has been my experience that such dongles have a lifetime of about a year.
Or less.

Story time:  Years ago, we setup a graphics system that involved using the 
A&B Roll Editing (or something like that name) amiga software to control 2 
editing S-VHS vcr's, Panasonic 7750's.  That came with a parport dongle, 
without which it would not work.  And it was a $25,000 package.

They, after lots of argument, and receiving the old dongle, would replace it 
when it failed.  eventually that program was sold to RVS, Ring Video 
Systems, some fly by night down in FL.

The dongle failed again (there was no printer attached to its output port 
ever) and they screwed around for 6 months, finally going to the original 
authors house to get the last dongle in existence after we threatened to 
sue.  It lasted about 3 months.  By then the hacking business was running 
full tilt in the amiga world, so when they said no more dongle, we said 
we're gonna hack it, sue us if you dare.  We sent it off to one of the 
hackers, and had a working system back on-line in 3 days.  RVS in turn had 
one of their programmers try to take it out, and 3 copies later over about 2 
weeks, they failed.  And we laughed at them on the phone when the last one 
they sent didn't work.

To this day, I believe we only have one dongle protected system at the 
station & that was because they said there wasn't one, but there was.  We 
simply do not consider for purchase, any system that uses a dongle for copy 
protection.  And we are not exactly silent when we tell some vendor, sorry, 
you use a trouble prone technology so we will not even consider your 
product/equipment.  When we are writing checks for $100k and up for the new 
digital stuff, we are justifiably being picky.  If the vendor doesn't like 
it, the exit door is that way, come back when you can offer us something 
that Just Works(TM).  Its been remarkably effective at separating out the 
rectums in the business.

>Cheers!
>
>Ralf
>


-- 
Cheers, Gene
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