From hardbop200@gmail.com Mon Jul 31 14:06:33 2006
Subject:Re: Soft Synths and Samplers

On 7/31/06, Bruce Wahler wrote:
> The Receptor uses a fine-tuned version of Linux as its operating system. This is way more "lean and mean" than the average Windows XP system, and probably even a little better than many OSX systems. Reasons for this have to do with the "ground rules" of the two systems: a PC or Mac has to be able to do lots of general-purpose tasks, like run word processing, play games, handle video, etc.; a Receptor just has to program and play VST plugins. In fact, I've been told that it doesn't even play most off-the-shelf VSTs -- there are special Receptor versions for most of them.


I highly recommend anyone who is technically advanced or had
time/interest in playing with new technologies to try out Linux.
While VST support is, maybe 50-65% of the way there (and that's being
generous), there are a lot of really great things going on there.
I'll stop here since this is OT, but hit me offline if any of you are
interested and need some places to go first.


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Josh Lawrence
http://www.hardbop200.com