> The ability to "plant" 3 recorders on 3 people for 7 hour stints
> $700USD and at a media cost of $15USD/day and still have $1300 USD to
> spend on a nice ambience rig would have me thinking that solving the
> pc/mac "boot problem" is easy. Check the HiMD forum link on the page
> for linux solutions, you never know. I bought a 233MHz $100 laptop
> running SS version 3.2 that I use just for uploading. Sounds like a
> fun project there. By golly, the outdoors is a large, complex room.
> Have fun getting people turned onto sound. Rob D.
Yes that scenario deserves a really good look. But just to point out
the budget is $2000AUD not USD. That's a pretty big difference but
doesn't diminish your point (just the opposite).
I just did a surf round, including the minidisc forums, and there is
widespread be-moaning of the inability to use the
sony devices with linux. The hacks and accomodations that exist for the
mac aren't even present.
The dual-boot setup would be the best solution if I went this way but
there are no gaurauntees. Sony claim that SonicStage will not work on
dual boot systems -
http://www.sonydigital-link.com/dna/SonicStage/sstage_dl.asp
Personally I suspect it would work but Sony do seem pretty successful at
making their products inflexible.
An alternate solution would be networking a windows computer to my linux
box but that is something that is going to send me really grey. I'm not
profficient at networking. And then again I could return to windows cap
in hand. But I just can't come at that. Life is too short and I have
actually begun to enjoy using computers again since 'the switch'. (Not
to evangelise - that's just how it is.)
Interesting that idea:
> Have fun getting people turned onto sound. Rob D.
You have me thinking about the aesthetics of this exercise now - which
are a little confusing: Why would you want to visit a beautiful natural
soundscape and then put on headphones and listen to an audio tour?
I'll keep working on that - and equipment choices.
thanks Rob
Graham E.
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