XPost: rec.audio.pro   
   From: digilyd@hotmail.com   
      
   Hank wrote:   
      
   > I have enough computers around here, running every operating system   
   > EXCEPT Microsoft Windows.  I've been posting about aspects of this   
   > project of mine in various newsgroups.   
      
   There are two hardware/OS platforms that together have 99.9999 percent of   
   the relevant audio tools, you have the appearance of insisting to use   
   anything but.   
      
   I have a completely suitable winxp box as experiment box which I bought for   
   DKK 250 including XP professional license, it would be usable for your   
   project and you would be productive with an over the counter version of   
   Audition 3 for a total budget that is about USD 500, I even think that   
   budget would allow putting an extra harddisk in that box. Your approach to   
   solving this strikes me as extraordinarily peculiar in case your objective   
   is to get some audio digitized in a reasonably productive manner.   
      
   > Probably should mention here that I'm a 75-year-old retired   
   > hardware-software engineer who had enough "careers" over 45 years that   
   > I can work hardware and software issues without getting too far off my   
   > turf.   
      
   OK, your doing it for fun, interesting quest then.   
      
   > I'd expected more and better pro-level audio processing   
   > software to be available in the open source world.   
      
   They are too busy telling us audio guys how poor our working production   
   systems are to find the time to discover how to actually make something that   
   works out of the box or download file.   
      
   > Certainly   
   > somebody who is trying to earn an income doing pro audio isn't going   
   > to be able to devote the time and effort I can to getting a good   
   > stable alternative to the Windows stuff---which has plenty of   
   > problems of its own.   
      
   THAT is a very well made point, thank you. If you need to get something done   
   reasonably fast then I stand by my USD 500 suggestion above as a better   
   approach, but I can certainly share the fun of getting things to work, and   
   wish you the best of luck with the quest.   
      
   > Hank   
      
     Kind regards   
      
     Peter Larsen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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