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 Sweetwater Custom Computing 2.53 GHz Laptop• MC-909 User's Competition!
• Cakewalk Acquires Ultrafunk Audio Plug-in
Sweetwater Custom Computing 2.53 GHz Laptop
Sweetwater Custom Computing is now shipping new laptops with blazing 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 processors, 1 GB of RAM, an internal 40 GB hard drive and more! Our PCs have been tested and approved for use with pro audio applications and are guaranteed to perform day in and day out! Call us and let us custom configure a complete turn-key audio laptop for you today!MC-909 User's Competition!
If you love making grooves with Roland's MC-909 (and who wouldn't?), share your talent with the world and you just might win some cool prizes from Roland! All you have to do is produce a song exclusively on your MC-909 and send it in for judging. Any style will be accepted, and you can even upload an MP3 right to the MC-909 Contest site! The grand prize winner will take home an Edirol PCR-50 Controller Keyboard and have their song broadcast on the MC-909.com website. Check it out!
Cakewalk Acquires Ultrafunk Audio Plug-in
Cakewalk, developer of the world's best-selling music and sound software for Windows, announced that it has acquired plug-in technology from Ultrafunk AS. Based in Oslo, Norway, Ultrafunk AS is a leading independent developer of DirectX and VST audio plug-ins for Windows. As a result of this acquisition, Cakewalk gains exclusive publishing and distribution rights to all Ultrafunk technologies, including the popular Sonitus:fx plug-in pack. Support and future updates for registered Ultrafunk product users will be handled directly through Cakewalk. In addition, registered Ultrafunk users will now become registered Cakewalk customers, eligible for future offers on Cakewalk products and upgrades. Significant to Sonar users is the inclusion of Ultrafunk in the much anticipated Sonar 3 Producer Edition due out later this year. Read more here.
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| Do you have to de-frament hard drives on Alesis' HD24? |
Q: "I've heard that you don't need to de-fragment the hard drive in the Alesis HD24. Why wouldn't you?"
A: The "cluster size" of the Alesis file system on the HD24 multitrack digital recorder is much larger than many other disk file systems, so files are easier to find. In addition, and perhaps most important for this discussion, all tracks for a given song are saved in adjacent sectors, not scattered in different locations. The end result? No matter how many songs you load on a disk, or how many overdubs and edits you make, the drive never gets fragmented enough to affect performance.
It's important to note that the ADAT HD24's file system is NOT the same as "tape mode" in some other hard disk recorders, which may erase songs following it on the drive. The ADAT/FST does not permanently assign a given length of time in a particular song to any sector of the drive. It is still random-access; it's just not as scattered as other disk formats. |
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