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It's about time I posted something on here. And the news is that I have built myself a new computer !! It's well wicked….. I've finaly bitten the bullet and dumped Windows and built myself a system that runs Linux, Debian 5.0 with Xen virtualization is my weapon of choice. My hope is that I can use this cool virtual toy call 'PCI Passthrough' and the idea is that a virtualized Windows XP system will have full access to the Creamware Scope card that I have in the system. The pain and heartache I have gone through to get here has been huge, I can't explain all of it but let me just say that I have ended up with two $500+ motherboards and I will never be buying a Gigabyte system again…. I love ASUS…. 'nuff said…. Anway the new machine has i7 920 CPU, 12gb RAM, 2x RAID5 Arrays totalling in 2.5TB storage. There are some really cool things I can do with this system and then there are some things that should just work but simply don't, like the damn iPOD… it’s really frustrating but a fun game at the same time. Now that I have some content for you all I will post up my stories as this progresses. But for now here are so pics for you to ogle at, the first one is a shot during the build when I was installing the Gigabyte board, the second is more recently after I installed the ASUS board and took a screenshot of the desktop... YEAH BABY !

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OMFG !! I didn't even know that this thing existed. But thanks to the guys at Audiomastermind I am now all the more wiser for it. It is a full music production suite for Linux, it can support VST plugins and operates more or less like Fruity Loops. I will definatly be giving this a try !!

I've been a fan of Linux for many years, I use it at work and I have it installed on my laptop, but I have found that it is seriously lacking in pro audio applications, probably mainly due to the fact that there are no big developers for the platform. However over recent years some freely available applications have now matured to the point where it is almost becoming feasible to run a pro studio entirely on Linux, infact I would go as far to say that there are probably people around doing this right now. This coinsides with the fact that I have been reading more and more articles about pro audio on linux, so I have decided to start posting what I find here.

JACK is a low-latency audio server, written for POSIX conformant operating systems such as GNU/Linux and Apple's OS X. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a "plugin").

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