Well, I'll give you kind of a convoluted answer :-). First off, the studio bought it, so I really don't feel bad that we obtained it, since it was fun messing with light sensors and other controllers, and after all it was a good learning experience [in hacking :-)]. However, I personally would not buy it since I am first off not currently interested in that kind of MIDI controllers (I am right now into pedals + faders that offer built-in & cpu-software-independent configuration), but more importantly I probably would not buy it because of the lousy Linux support, despite the fact that the manufacturer advertised on their website that they do support Linux. It's really a misleading statement. Besides, Linux is now becoming rather powerful in the commercial circles and more and more hw vendors are being pressured to embrace it (just consider ATI and NVIDIA for a moment) in order to remain competitive. This gives us, users and developers alike, leverage to openly declare which hw is not Linux friendly, something that will in the long run create a kind of a "blacklist" of vendors and eventually either hinder their revenue or make them take Linux seriously. While I appreciate icubex manufacturer's interest in Linux, what I do not appreciate is their utter lack of support for it. Furthermore I feel likr they are using Linux as a kind of a propaganda ("Look! We support Linux, aren't we cool?"). Hence, I feel like they do not deserve my money if they are not willing to seriously consider Linux OS as a viable platform. Kind of a long rant, but nonetheless hope this answers your question! :-) Ico [mailto:linux-audio-user- Paul depends are to to problems the the remember messy to of a share doo-dad?

Hello, I've come to this rather late: use Linux extensively as the do-all, be-all tool in the suites of the television production company I work for. The quality of the audio tools is verifiable, which gives me confidence in preparing soundtracks and, increasingly, laid-off sets of video frames in Film-Gimp or whatever it's called now. Used Linux live on-air for the Channel 5 show "The Vicious Circle" for twelve weeks, providing a continuous backing track and pitch-shifting via the 'sox' tool. This was on an old HP box that cost us about six peanuts from a surplus vendor. Is there likely to be a meet at Birmingham? I shall drive south from Cheshire, not very far. yours, ...j On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, iriXx wrote:

The LinuxUser & Developer Expo has been postponed, and will now be a three day event on 24-26 June. In view of this, should we move the LAU meeting to the 24 June, or is there another day that people would prefer? Cheers Daniel