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Re: O.T. Computers



The best thing about older PCs was they used to sometimes have "Turbo" 
buttons that would feed the exhaust back into the processor and you'd 
get a great kind of flanging tone from it.

Mark

On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 11:07  PM, Luigi Meloni wrote:

> That's the reason why his are so rare and sound better. I still have an 
> AMD
> 486 dx2 80Mhz that I use for midi sequences with a very old Cakewalk 
> version
> and Win3.11. 8Mb of ram and it sounds great.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Cummings" <billcumm@sprynet.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:02 AM
> Subject: Re: O.T. Computers
>
>
>> hahahaha, they didn't make 486's till 92/93
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jonathan El-Bizri" <ssrndpty@hotmail.com>
>> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 5:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: O.T. Computers
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Well, if it's tone your looking for, you are probably best using an
>>> underclocked 486 (from '86- to '89), with no more than 4 megs of ram.
> You
>>> can't buy them any more, but there are two in my garage that I'm 
>>> willing
>> to
>>> part with for an exorbitant amount of money.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net>
>>> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 1:43 PM
>>> Subject: Re: O.T. Computers
>>>
>>>
>>>> Also, the G4 RISK processor sounds a lot warmer than Intel chips, in
> my
>>>> opinion.  I think it has something to do with the way that Floating
>> Point
>>> Unit
>>>> floats.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> Luigi Meloni wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That is the reason why i still use Win98se. I've got WinMe on my
>>> notebook
>>>>> and I think it sucks. The only good thing in it is the fact it can
> use
>>> WDM
>>>>> drivers, which in cakewalk products allow a very little latency.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net>
>>>>> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 1:58 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: O.T. Computers
>>>>>
>>>>>> No offense taken.  I have Macs and PCs and drive a Golf.  I'm not
>>> saying
>>>>> Apple
>>>>>> is without sin, but when I hear that every time you add hardware
> to
>>> your
>>>>> PC
>>>>>> you've got to get a new serial number to run Windows XP, I cringe.
>>> That's
>>>>>> pretty damn evil.  I like this debate, but it's a lot like
> religion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> CarlJacobson@cakewalk.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey I drive a Saturn and use a PC?  What does that mean?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mark I meant no disrespect by my last message. That whole "evil
>>> empire"
>>>>>>> thing just gets under my skin sometimes...maybe I've read one to
>>> many
>>>>> Ayn
>>>>>>> Rand books...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and for this question...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If I had a peice of gear that would only run on OS 9, and would
>>> never
>>>>> have
>>>>>>> it's drivers upgraded ever, what would you recomend to house the
>>> beast?
>>>>> What
>>>>>>> would be the cheapest option? What would I get from a more
>> expensive
>>>>> unit,
>>>>>>> considering that I will never be able to upgrade it? What kind
> of
>>>>> software
>>>>>>> will 'never go away'?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The gear in question is a Korg Oasys card. Probably the best
>>>>> price/features
>>>>>>> deal ever - more powerful than a Digi farm card, latency down to
>> 1.5
>>> ms,
>>>>>>> ASIO, ADAT I/O, comes with more than half the Triton sample
> sound
>>> set,
>>>>> does
>>>>>>> Z1 style synthesis, awesome AD/DA, but no support, no drivers,
>> ever.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, here's the deal.  I've got an Aurora Fuse video capture
> card.
>>> Was
>>>>> the
>>>>>> best I could afford at the time.  Aurora has stated that they will
>>> NEVER
>>>>> write
>>>>>> an OSX driver for it.  They will give me their Igniter card... if
> I
>>> give
>>>>> up
>>>>>> another $500.  Frankly, at that point, I'd sooner get a DV camera
>> and
>>> to
>>>>> DV,
>>>>>> since I'm using Final Cut Pro anyway, and have the Igniter RT card
>> at
>>>>> work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So.... When I need to capture analog video, or record in DP3, I
>> reboot
>>>>> into OS
>>>>>> 9.  It's a pretty good OS, all in all.  Sure, OSX is better, but
>> it's
>>>>> still
>>>>>> very new.  I'm impressed at how little I've got to launch the
>> "Classic
>>>>>> environment" these days.  If you really need a Mac box, I'd look
> for
>> a
>>>>> used
>>>>>> high end G3 or low end G4 and just stick to OS 9.2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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