XPost: rec.audio.pro
From: hankvc@blackhole.lostwells.net
In article <4bb64a09$0$56767$edfadb0f@dtext02.news.tele.dk>,
Peter Larsen wrote:
>Hank wrote:
>
>> "Two platforms?" I see only one in your comments.
>
>The other is the MAC's. It surprises me to have to specify. My own strategy
>has been - from my days as an amigan - to start with the problem, then find
>the application and then get the OS the application runs on, for that very
>reason I have had MS-DOS emulation on my Amigas from the onset, not all
>niche software can be found on a niche platform.
>
Yes, it helps to be specific. "Other operating systems" are AIX,
IRIX, HP-UX, BSD, Solaris, Linux in several flavors (Red Hat, Debian,
Suse, Slackware)---and that's just the beginning. We could also talk
about VMS, OSF, Minix (which Linus Torvalds set out to emulate with
Linux 20 years ago), OS/2, Xenix. That's before we say anything about MS-DOS
or the Amiga (or CP/M or RT-11 or IBM 360 DOS or TOS or RSTS/E or
RSX/11). The only one of those I haven't worked with at one point or
another is Amiga. And if I dredged my memory a bit more I might also
mention the Tandem Guardian system, IBM OS/MVT (MFT, MVS, TCAM, etc.)
Univac Exec VIII, the O/S on CDC 6600/6700.
>
>Again, not the only thing out there, but the one I am familiar with, Adobe
>Audition 3 is some USD 350. 500 of your local dollars will have you up and
>running and productive in a week.
>
"Up, running, and productive in a week" is a non-objective. I'm not
looking to capitalize a shop, find clients and work, and amortize the
investment with accounts receivable.
>Be religious some other day.
And be realistict today about what's practical for an old retired guy.
Your messages read "pay, pay, pay."
>
>You say you have clients, such usually wait anxiously for results and you
>have been tinkering for a month and you're still not ready to start learning
>to operate your software, something that WILL take time.
>
Precisely what I did NOT say. Digitizing what are old family archives
and hand-me-downs that I have (and have the knowledge and equipment
needed to play them) is what I'm dealing with.
>
>Sorry Sir, all fine and well but not relevant to the described task of
>delivering transscribed audio to presumed paying clients, presumed since you
>ask also in an audio production forum.
>
Your presumption. There are no paying clients involved.
>>>> 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.
>
>> At this point, I've spent a month assessing what's available, set up
>> some hardware, looked at software issues, And think that for a modest
>> time investment, I can get some good results. And, with a bit of
>> diplomacy, maybe get those results back into software that others can
>> use.
>
>Make no mistake, it would be great if you could get a good swiss knife kinda
>package to work for the *ix platform, allow me to suggest that you decide
>whether you want to do that or to get some audio from round black things to
>mp3 players. Very many years ago when I was getting "into computers" I read
>a piece of advice: "You can program them or use them, you are not likely to
>be able to find time to do both".
>
I'm not "getting into computers," nor am I "getting into serious
audio." Is fifty-sixty years of experience with analog and digital
electronics adequate to prepare one to take on an interesting task and
make it happen?
I came to this group to find out a bit more about what's happening in
pro audio today, and I've gotten some good comments about basic things
that I need to consider---and that I can easily implement.
I'll do the worrying about getting more of the open source software to
run on a solid operating system.
Hank
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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