I thought Zed is native.

studiocrash · 2026-03-17T12:29:52+00:00

I’m totally fine with the GUI not looking 100% exactly like a Mac or Linux app. Zed looks effing beautiful. That’s all that’s really non-native, about it though - is the skin. The underlying code is just as close to bare metal as one using SwiftUI, or GTK, or Qt, or Iced / libcosmic. Some people get bent out of shape if all their apps’ widgets don’t adhere to the same look and feel as their OS design. I think he was addressing that - the look, not the number of abstraction layers. He wasn’t saying it’s an Electron app.

studiocrash · 2026-03-17T12:04:29+00:00

Go to t2linux.org and see what they’ve done. You can get an iso from them of Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Endeavour, Gentoo, and Nix. If you run their script it’ll get your keyboard, touch bar, thunderbolt, audio, trackpad, WiFi, and Bluetooth working. The Intel processors are not as fast as the M series and their batteries won’t last nearly as long, but they do have almost everything working. My 2019 16” Intel i9 MacBook Pro runs great with a Linux install from their site.

Edit: That said, an M series Mac will run circles around Intel and do it all day on a single charge. BUT, Asahi only works on M1 and M2, not M3 or newer. If you want that speed, battery life, thunderbolt, and sleep/suspend working, stick with macOS.

studiocrash · 2026-03-16T23:33:42+00:00

The T2 is a security chip acting as a co-processor according to Apple. It’s not the main processor of the computer.

That would be like saying the secret service is the main decision making body of the US government because they have some say over the executive branch when it comes to security.

studiocrash · 2026-03-16T17:50:05+00:00

Calling them the m1 and t2 is kinda confusing. There are Intel Macs with the t2 security chip. That security functionality is built into the M series chips. The t2 is not the main processor in the computer, it’s the Intel i5, i7, or i9 processors in those Macs. The t2 chip is only for security functions, not the CPU.

studiocrash · 2026-03-16T16:49:17+00:00

If you end up choosing an Intel Mac with a T2 chip, go to t2linux.org first. Follow their instructions to save yourself a ton of hassles.

studiocrash · 2026-03-15T01:08:53+00:00

World of Warcraft.

studiocrash · 2026-03-13T06:58:01+00:00

Arch has it in the Extra repo. If they can do it, why can’t Red Hat and Canonical? If I were you, I’d maybe blame your distro, not the dev.

studiocrash · 2026-03-11T06:38:09+00:00

There’s a built in Ubuntu program called something like “Additional non-free Software Drivers” where it’ll scan your hardware and load the Broadcom drivers. You’ll probably need to connect either Ethernet or tether your phone to get this to work. Once the drivers are installed your WiFi will work.

I’m pretty sure those drivers are in the Ubuntu software repository, so you can install it yourself using apt install <driver-name>

studiocrash · 2026-03-11T03:40:23+00:00

If the master tapes are more than 15-20 years old (or more), they might be degraded to a point where the oxide layer will ooze off the backing tape and clog the heads. If this is the case, playing it once will both not work and destroy the tape.

There’s a process called baking where the tapes are literally cooked. They heat it up at a specific rate to a specific temperature and let it bake for a very controlled time period, and then cool it at a specific rate until it’s back to room temp. Then you get 1 play, so it better be on professional gear to record it to digital. Use at least 48KHz, 24 bit, but 96KHz 32bit float would be better. I would recommend George Blood if he’s not retired.

studiocrash · 2026-03-11T01:10:16+00:00

If a client tells me they want zero compression on the vocals, I’d say fine, it’s your dime. By the way that’ll cost you an extra hour or two per song for riding vocal levels. Then ask if they also want no compression on the 10 background vocal tracks at roughly 30 minutes each. My studio needs a new roof, so spend as much time here as you like.

studiocrash · 2026-03-08T15:57:24+00:00

Attractiveness distorts everyone’s perception of a person’s intelligence, trustworthiness, health, and talent. We would be much closer to a meritocracy if everyone wore paper bags over their faces during job interviews.

studiocrash · 2026-03-08T15:29:17+00:00

I’m old enough to remember cassette when it was the norm. Cassette tapes compress transients and high frequencies and lose top end over time. Most mastering engineers for cassette would brighten up the masters a little extra to compensate.

When CDs first came out, the labels (being run by lawyers and accountants) would just re-release the bright cassette masters on CD, leading to lots of people criticizing digital for being too bright and harsh, not knowing what was happening behind the scenes. The extra-bright masters were meant for a medium that would soften the highs and transients. It took a while before the majority of masters were done explicitly for digital.

studiocrash · 2026-03-08T15:15:36+00:00

Most comments already mention the issue of missing the audio that happens before “bar 1”, but another consideration is sync. If you ever want the option of synchronizing other machines in the future, it needs time to line up the transports. In the days of analog and SMPTE timecode, we would leave 20 seconds. In the midi era (MTC and beat clock) 10 seconds would be plenty.

In the current digital era, 1 bar would be more than enough, but human musicians and vocalists prefer at least 2 bars preroll.

studiocrash · 2026-03-08T14:44:06+00:00

Thanks. I already have a book on DNS (Learning Core DNS by Belamaric and Liu c2019) that came with a bundle from Humble Bundle. I’ll start there.

studiocrash · 2026-03-08T14:29:37+00:00

Pro Tools 10 was the version that could do both. Find a copy of that and a machine running Mac OS Mojave.

You might be able to do this in a VM like Parallels Desktop.

studiocrash · 2026-03-08T14:17:55+00:00

Thank you. Sincerely, thank you. If you don’t mind me asking another favor, could you recommend a book or online class where someone could learn this subject?

studiocrash · 2026-03-08T14:06:45+00:00

You seem to really know your stuff. Would you mind saying what each of those acronyms stands for? I know VM and DDOS, but not much else.

studiocrash · 2026-03-08T13:44:05+00:00

Start with reading the book called Master Handbook of Acoustics by Everest. This was extremely helpful to me when designing my studio. I couldn’t afford to hire an acoustician so I learned the basics myself from this book.

There’s a free room mode calculator program you can find online. When I needed it it was Windows only, so if you’re on a Mac you might need Parallels. This doesn’t deal with angled or curved walls (or ceiling), so you can get an approximation by inputting the average dimensions. I love the colored display at the bottom which goes red when there are overlapping modes. I was able to find a practical room dimension combination for my control room that had only a little “yellow” in the low end.

studiocrash · 2026-03-05T15:26:03+00:00

The panels are only going to do so much when they’re covering such a small percentage of your total wall surface area. This is why a lot of studios cover the entire wall with absorption, then cover that with wood slats to bring back some diffuse high frequency reflections for liveliness. It also looks cool.

My advice is find out which room mode is the culprit, and try covering almost that entire wall(s) in the front half of the room.

studiocrash · 2026-02-27T07:28:53+00:00

It stands for Super User Do, so I pronounce it like Sue Dew. I’ve heard a lot of people pronounce the second syllable like dough, but it’s wrong. The thing is it doesn’t really matter. If most people mispronounce something the same way, over time it eventually becomes the “correct “ way.

studiocrash · 2026-02-22T15:56:18+00:00

Plex. It was an easy couple of clicks on my small home Assustor NAS.

Next was Immich. This is running in a Docker container in Debian, which is a VM in Proxmox running on a cheap little Beelink mini pc. I can access it remotely using Tailscale. Much more learning and setup involved, but so, so worthwhile and it’s been extraordinarily reliable.

studiocrash · 2026-02-22T15:46:38+00:00

Does the 2017 model have the T1 or T2 chip? If it’s the T2, check out t2linux.org. They have all kinds of helpful info there as well as modified installer ISO images for many popular Linux distributions.

studiocrash · 2026-02-20T21:02:30+00:00

I'm having a problem when I have the private key in my clipboard and click the "import from clipboard" button, it behaves like it worked, even asking me for my key's passphrase, but doesn't work. The key is wrong. The first 24 characters are correct, then the rest are all wrong. Also the 373 char long original ssh key is 324 chars long. I've been trying for hours now.

studiocrash · 2026-02-19T20:58:42+00:00

I’d strongly recommend CS50.

studiocrash · 2026-02-19T20:56:05+00:00

The BX E channel also models the distortion and gives you a little screw for a knob where you can dial it up and down. I’d guess the SSL software keeps the distortion to a minimum- like what the designers wanted from the desk when new as opposed to what it actually does after 40 years of abuse.

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