Some help please? Let's get Solaris 10 out there!

Question

I'm on eBay, I'm always on eBay, and the sheer amount of JAVA they spit out is amazing. Chokes the heck out of this Win2K OS.
Anyone out there have better results with Solaris 10? I'm seriously considering putting a separate desktop together with Solaris - love it for my servers - but we may be able to get others into the act.
Specifically I'm hoping others will give feedback as to how Solaris is dealing with eBay's code, especially if a few will be willing to post in the Technical forum on eBay's community forums.

Answer 1

That was bizarre - I saw your post and wrote back..then mine dissapeared.
In a nutshell, your automation and the regions in which it affects are always IN SYNC no matter what you do to the master bus and no matter how much 'in front' the playhead appears. Here is what I did to try to prove your case:
1) Put a loop on a track - I used Classic Rock Beat #2
2) Moused MUTES in front of every snare note. I zoomed in really good when I drew them in. On playback, there are no snare hits heard for the 4 bar loop.
3) Inserted an Adlimiter with the lookahead set to 200ms on the master bus.
4) Pressed play - the playhead was out of sync but the snare drums were still not heard. If the automation was read l earlier (due to the playhead state) then the snare hits would have been audible and the mutes would have been active at the wrong time.
5) Repeated steps 3-4 an additional three times making the latency a whopping 800ms. NO snare hits audible.
6) I even sent the loop track to a aux bus and put another adlimiter there with a 100ms lookahead. Again, no snares audible.
7) No matter what or where (or how much!) I put the latency plugs, the automation of the track was dead on.
Logic reads the audio (or midi or whatever) at the precise time it reads the automation. There are in sync. The entire audio stream is delayed compared to the playhead, that is true, but all audio/automation/etc are in sync.
In your last post you said "ALL of your automation is out of time, as it is read when the playhead passes it, not by when the sound triggers"
BOTH the audio and the automation is read when the playhead passes it. You just HEAR the audio later so it appears that the audio is being read at a different time (later). Try the scenario I wrote about and see if you don't have the same results.
What am I missing?