Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] final scratch audio
From: Brian Redfern (bredfern_AT_calarts.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 20:24:25 EEST
You can do the same thign with terminatorX, people have wired turntables
into mouse circuits to use a regular turntable to control the scratching
on terminatorX and you don't have to pay for an expensive system, just get
any old turntable and wire it into an old ps/2 mouse.
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Nathaniel Virgo wrote:
>
> It's pretty odd because they make it pretty clear on their website here:
> http://www.finalscratch.com/fs2/sys_req.asp
>
> maybe it's just because their marketing people are scared of linux...
>
> (incidentally, I know someone who came up with the same idea a couple of years ago. He's pretty annoyed that someone else got there first :) )
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Constable <markc_AT_renta.net>
> Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2002 12:26 pm
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] final scratch audio
> > What I find curious is in the RealMedia presentation the word
> > linux is not mentioned. Some M$ apology is made, "sorry Bill but
> > your OS is not good enough" and "Mac" is mentioned (although at
> > the time the video was made there was no Mac port available).
> > I get the distinct feeling that linux is a dirty word out there
> > in the real audio world. Stanton, the makers of FS, certainly
> > are not using the word "linux" to promote this product and if
> > anything they have gone to some lengths to hide any use of the
> > word in their promotional material.
> >
> > --markc
> >
>
>
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