On 3/3/2011 3:17 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 03:55:48 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
But you can usually run the one that is picky as the host OS and the other(s) virtualized.
You really don't know what you're talking about in this case, Les. The specific machine that I'm talking about needs access to Harrison Mixbus on OS X with iZotope Alloy, Ozone, and Spectron as AudioUnits, and also access to Ardour (soon Mixbus, once I get some things squared) on Linux with certain specialized LV2 plugins for special tasks. Both environments are time critical. There is also clock sync to outboard processing gear; I'm talking realtime on both OS'es, and virtualization is not a workable option, at least as long as hard realtime under a VM isn't possible. If the iZotope plugins would work as VST's under Linux in a reliable manner I could remove at least part of my need for OS X; well, and once Melodyne for Windows can run under Crossover (haven't tried; don't know). But I still do analysis in Spectre, and that's OS X-only.
So there are actually apps that work in Linux that aren't available for OS X?
As long as you have access to a network, just connect up a common nfs/samba share from some other machine.
No. That specific machine is not networked, to reduce IRQ load. Every IRQ that can be turned off is turned off.
I'm kind of surprised that a local disk controller would be better in that respect than a network card.