Well, it's not much, as I seem to be moving from Sonar to Linux-based stuff at a glacial pace - by no means due to problems with Linux - all that's gone swimmingly - I just have too many unfinished products laying around on the windows system - and for both aesthetic and technical reasons i refuse to switch horses mid-record. But anyway, here's a minute and a half of music I made for use in a short film by a friend. Equipment used: a Shure SM58 and a Kawai K4r run via cheap Behringer mixer into an M-Audio Delta 44 connected to a p2.4g/512mb CCRMA box running Freewheeling - output to a windows box running Sonar (gratuitous windows use due to increasingly antiquated workflow), which I used only for a fade-out at the end (two hours practice with Ardour would likely reduce my need for windows to nil. Unfortunately, I'm spending those two hours learning how to play drums.)

On 2/28/06, Jan Depner <eviltwin69(a)cableone.net> wrote: ah - right you are - thanks! right now i'm using a linux box for synthesis/effects/looping, and a windows box for recording/editing/mixing. having separate machines for those task groups suits me very fine. i'm rather proud of my conservatism in changing audio production systems, but after three years lurking this list, a year or so of casually experimenting with a linux audio station, and now a month or so of solid productive use, i've certainly realized that the windows machine needs an exorcism. :) a year or two ago someone on this list mentioned the stylistic limitations imposed on musicians by the software tools they use. as though different applications, like instruments, had specific idioms. i believe they accused ableton of having a german techno personality (no offense to fans of ableton or german techno - though i'll stick with can). so, dig this - the reason i'm not recording/mixing/editing on a linux box right now is that my current projects are built on the stylistic limitations of my windows programs; it's my impression that the linux programs have (certainly) different, but moreso (in my estimation) LESS limitations than what i've been using, and so music composed with them would not fit with what i've gotten done on the windows box thus far. i'm struck by the irony of my reluctance to move to a different system due to its superior quality. it is artistically self-serving, though - it encourages me to finish off what's sitting on the windows box, and suggests that the stuff i do after that, on a linux setup, will be that much better. i guess i'm having trouble kicking the monkey off my back, but i can't say it's the cure's fault! new tools and instruments really make me happy. a borrowed drumset and the linuxsampler/freewheeling/jack-rack combination have kept me high for months now. -- dan(a)towndowner.com dan(a)burntpossum.com daneasley(a)gmail.com http://towndowner.com http://burntpossum.com

On 3/1/06, Sean Edwards <cybersean3000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: I'd love to hear recommendations for a 2-4U rack-mounted case shallow enough to fit in a typical audio gear rack (depth limitation of 14/15", as I recall.)