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How much have you made from Spotify, if you don't mind me asking? Is it as bad as they say?

Hi Brian,

1. What is your favorite movie that you scored, as far as the movie itself is concerned?
2. Which movie was the most challenging to score?
3. What is the latest on the Ima / ESCM remasters?
4. What's the latest book you read that you would recommend everyone read?

Thanks, and congratulations on the new album! It's an incredible piece of music and I consider it to be your best work from the last 10 years.

For those still curious about why this is:

Atari ST has impeccable MIDI timing (in both Cubase and Notator/Logic) because user-level apps were able to run the hardware interrupts at "real-time". Meaning, the timer used to clock the MIDI ports were given top priority and were highly precise. Those apps became the center-piece of the computer, rather than the operating system or system-level tasks. Computers weren't really fast enough to multitask, so they didn't even try.

These days computers are more general purpose and are engineered for maximum multitasking capabilities, and so processes cannot get "true RT" timing (unless you build a custom linux kernel). OSes are constantly throttling the cores for power consumption, to keep Wi-Fi working fast, etc.