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I keep meaning to try this with Ableton to see what sort of latency there is. Should work fine though. The demo will work as well for doing this with no time limits so you won't even need to spend anything. Download some freebie plug-ins or the ones built in and away you go.

Does it take DX, VST or both?

Errr, what sort of effects do you want?

Where are the beats coming from? Soundforge is dope and I love it - but you might be better off with a multitracker if you want to do any kind of post-production work.

Working in a drug development environment, I often wonder how much more quickly important treatments could be realised and brought to market. It's so hard to pull together everyone's knowledge - even within a group of 100 people - let alone the whole world. With obvious business restrictions and just the sheer amount of research being carried out over the world there must be so much overlap and similar mistakes being made during the development process.

Also, if anyone doesn't know - www.kvraudio.com is a good place to find out about most of these sort of things.

An easier way to imagine it is that the record has to be physically cut at the mastering house right? So imagine cutting a master plate. You are feeding it a scratch sentence every revolution. This is being transcribed onto the record at the same angular position each time. Imagine placing a pebble on the record and timing how long it takes to reach the same angular point. It is always the same length of time. You are right in that there is less groove distance the further you get in (i.e. smaller distance covered in the same time = less linear velocity). This is also why records start sounding like shit when they get into the inner groove. The same amount of information is squashed into a smaller space.

The angular velocity is constant so spacing them the same amount will work fine - i.e. the time it takes for a revolution is always the same, even though the linear velocity decreases as you move further in.

I haven't actually used it. I decided to strip all the unlicensed software I have out so I could concentrate on just learning Live and it's own native instruments. Everyone I know who has it really likes it though.

I have it but it's 2 DVDs + some extras

I think the new designs look good, but then I am as gay as a window.

That vid is fucking dope!

Nah Gizmo is the brains behind it all. Me and ProfBX write the odd review and help out where we can!

No, you don't actually have to ring anyone. Try it.

You need to go into the "About" section, register - by phone - then enter it there when it gvies you your system ID.

Seriously, get a decent news server account (or try your ISPs) and subscribe to newzbin.com. You'll need a decent newsreader as well (I use Newsbin Pro). Once you get over the initial hurdle of learning a bit about Usenet and how it works you'll be fine.

If the Xone:92 wasn't quite as cramped around the crossfader and had no panel obstructions I think it would be pretty close. I can't really justify a £1000 outlay for my bedroom though. I can try, but that's a bit silly even for me - although I did just spend $300 on a Shure V15VxMr cartridge.

What, and Foobar's way of displaying titles doesn't? With it's 10,000 strings and arguments! I just deleted it all and put [%tracknumber% - %artist% - %title%] with the album at the top of the window. The default ones are crazy.

Woah - Dee Swift is even more organized than me! I use Tag & Rename for all my file renaming/tagging needs. It is really good. So good I actually bought a license for it. Yeah I didn't use to tag any of my files either but after I bought a Rio Karma, I had to as the unit relies on the tags for organisation. Use Foobar also.

It looks familiar - though I may not have tried it to be honest. I gave up eventually and moved to .ogg, though recently found out gapless can be done with Lame after buying my Rio Karma mp3 player.

I never got Winamp to play back gapless, regardless of plugins used. In any case, true LAME headers are the only 'proper' way of getting gapless playback. Any other method will probably do a combination of taking out silent areas or quick fading (like some portable mp3 players do). Yeah Foobar has disk-writing ability. Like I said, bring in the LAME encoded files, highlight them, right-click > burn audio cd. Worked for me.

Yeah true, before I discovered you could get gapless MP3 I encoded my entire cd collection to .ogg anyway. So if you have rips by other people you just have to hope they used LAME, if not, it's not possible unless you want to decode to .wav and edit by hand in an audio editor. I suppose it is karma's way of punishing you for downloading MP3 files!

The ONLY way to get gapless MP3 is to encode using LAME and use a player that can look at the LAME headers and determine the true split points. MP3 itself is not natively gapless, but can be handled in a gapless way providing it has the LAME headers intact. Foobar2000 is the only Windows based software that can do this. You can also burn a gapless cd from within Foobar by just highlighting all the tracks > right-click > burn audio cd. This has worked for me - the only true gapless MP3 solution I have ever found.