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Holy shit, that hit me really hard right now.

Yeah, me too. Had my brain in knots for half a minute.

Sounds like any run of the mill complaint that everything used to be better.

I romanticize my childhood as much as the next guy. But I recommend looking at all the ways our childhoods were worse than those of our children. Makes for a much more balanced comparison.

I like some of the Vtech toys. I bought my youngest a Vtech Marble Rush recently for his third birthday and we build a lot of stuff with it together.

My oldest son (8 now) got a toy laptop when he was around that age, and he learned shapes, counting, and letters with it. It's looks really beat up now, but it still works and it wasn't too annoying or stupid.

In general I don't think electronic toys for toddlers are a good idea. But those two things from Vtech turned out to be allright.

You can then just set the same goal again. I don't see the problem.

I'm baffled by how much people spend on cars. But I get it. Everyone else is driving a nicer car, so you feel left out. Even if your rational side knows it's stupid, you still feel less than.

It's the same with homes. But as you say, at least real estate tends to hold it's value somewhat.

In my mind studio owners are the main group who suffer from this.

There are so few pieces of gear that will significantly improve your work compared to using the stuff you already have and know how to use. But people still spend a fortune on all kinds of hardware and software in the fear of missing out on some magical device that will give them a shortcut to great results. It's mental.

He was a dick to Harvey Pekar, too. He even said he feels bad about it in a Howard Stern interview after his retirement.

A lot of comedians seem to hold him in high regards, which I never understood, but that's probably on me. But he really does seem like a massive prick.

I drove a rental BMW a few weeks ago, and I think it had exactly this setting. Don't know if it does what you mention here.

This kind of window decoration is my favorite, too.

Modern UIs look more elegant. But I find it easier to conceptualize different contexts on my screen with thicker, embossed, brutal border indicators.

I also simply like the aesthetics for their own sake.

I don't think audiophiles even like music. So if you take the bullshit from them, they are left with nothing.

No RME for semi-pro? Any specific reason?

Because they seem to have great performance and stability on Windows.

I'm really curious what you decided on in the end. Can you tell us?

I hope this will help me finally remember Jeff Minter's name. Because every three years or so I feel like looking up some gameplay videos of his games and can't for the life of me recall it.

I love sites like these. Had never heard of Image Worsener before. Thanks!

I've only learned about this stuff in my late 30s, although I was deeply affected since childhood. I don't think your comment was particulary callous or ignorant. It just scares me when I see actual trauma being trivialized and thrown in with the "usual" stuff that stresses us out and feel a need to point out the difference.

Yes, but I want my DAW to have as much control over the scheduling, not the OS.

I don't want the OS to take away resources from my DAW at any point in time, exactly for the reason to avoid dropouts.

Linux-based studios are the norm for many hobbyists?

I don't think so. And what does that even mean?

There are some hobbyists using Linux for music production. But it's so far behind MacOS and Windows in that regards, that no sane person would use it for any other reason than prefering free software or using some esoteric piece of software that's only available on Linux.

I wish it was different, because than I could ditch Windows and move to Linux full stop.

I am talking about realtime performance. I don't want any other process take a slice of my audio software's schedule.

I would have thought that the operating system interfering with the scheduling of my DAW would increase latency. But since I know too little about how DAWs handle the scheduling I can only make some naive assumptions.

I want my audio processes to have full priority over any other task on my OS. I don't mind if my DAW increases the latency of other processes running on my PC.

When my own voice arrives at my head 20ms late, my pitch performance suffers, as well as comfort. It feels very weird.

When playing an instrument, I can live with a 20ms roundtrip.

I don't care about playback performance. I usually have my playback buffers at 512 samples, but I could easily deal with 1024 samples.

Okay, that makes sense.

Yeah, but that's not what I meant.

I want to give my DAW full priority and let it handle the scheduling. I want any other process on my operating system to take a backseat.

Wouldn't the clipping be solved by using floating point numbers during the filtering process?

Does a realtime kernel actually have any benefits for low latency in audio?

I would have thought that givig the audio process full priority would have the greatest benefit.

If you already have the stuff and work stationary, that's a great solution.

I'm a musician, so I had this stuff laying around. But it proved impractical for me.

Many people don't have interests.

You can, and I can.

You'd be surprised how many people would just drink themselves to metaphorical or literal death.

Yeah, I didn't think of that. That's a bummer for sure.

If it works for you, I'm happy for you.

I'm pretty sensitive to latency when monitoring my voice, so I prefer a hardware loopback.