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<blockquote data-quote="Arik Semagin" data-source="post: 99224" data-attributes="member: 5072">Re: Digidesign SC48Guys, per AVID, all VENUE systems are essentially a virtual, or software desks, it&#039;s a computer, PC running Windows XP (embedded, so you don&#039;t actually see Windows screen layout), with a few DSP and I/O cards. There&#039;s NOTHING WRONG with this setup, zillions of Windows PCs are in use everywhere, from tire shops to meat processing plants, each one has&nbsp; a hard drive and all are working fine. AVID did right thing by using Windows OS as a base for their VENUE software, rather than inventing the bicycle and writing all software from scratch. VENUE so far is more stable than any proprietary hardware-software combination, including Yammies, Soundcrafts and Midas with their extraorbital price tags.BTW the hard drive in VENUE is only 40Gb, probably can be replaced by flash or SSD drive easy.Another example: KORG Kronos synthesizer. Even if it looks like a hardware synth, it&#039;s a PC running version of LINUX operating system. Its main board is 100% standard PC motherboard, not even the latest one, all the sound synthesis is done in software. Essentially it&#039;s a software synth integrated into keyboard controlled and still the best sounding and most powerful synthesizer on the market today.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arik Semagin, post: 99224, member: 5072"] Re: Digidesign SC48 Guys, per AVID, all VENUE systems are essentially a virtual, or software desks, it's a computer, PC running Windows XP (embedded, so you don't actually see Windows screen layout), with a few DSP and I/O cards. There's NOTHING WRONG with this setup, zillions of Windows PCs are in use everywhere, from tire shops to meat processing plants, each one has a hard drive and all are working fine. AVID did right thing by using Windows OS as a base for their VENUE software, rather than inventing the bicycle and writing all software from scratch. VENUE so far is more stable than any proprietary hardware-software combination, including Yammies, Soundcrafts and Midas with their extraorbital price tags. BTW the hard drive in VENUE is only 40Gb, probably can be replaced by flash or SSD drive easy. Another example: KORG Kronos synthesizer. Even if it looks like a hardware synth, it's a PC running version of LINUX operating system. Its main board is 100% standard PC motherboard, not even the latest one, all the sound synthesis is done in software. Essentially it's a software synth integrated into keyboard controlled and still the best sounding and most powerful synthesizer on the market today. [/QUOTE]

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