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Why Bigger Isn’t Better

By William Coakley | 04/26/2025
Generally, the bigger it is, the worse it sounds why?Clever marketing substitutes "realism" for beauty what's going on?Good samples from a beautiful piano, by good techs, and developed by good programmers, doesn't make a beautiful piano then what does? Today, it's not unusual that synthesizers with more ROM memory sound...

The BIT 3 PCI Expansion Chassis for ProTools

By William Coakley | 01/11/2002
Because the world of PCI slots diminished in the Apple line of computers following the 9600, it was necessary to design an expansion chassis for all those expensive DSP cards for ProTools TDM. In the summer of 1998 I purchased a Bit 3 chassis at a cost of around $1400.00....

What Time is it in Hell?

By William Coakley | 01/16/2001
Who would ever think that buying a watch might end up being a multi-week effort? Well, I began thinking that I was on another planet when I set out to find a watch. I just couldn't seem to find a watch that had a few basic things on it that...