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These are my first recording tries using the Axe FX Ultra (Version 8.02).
The patches are based on the Petrucci Rhythm with a little less gain and the FAS lead with the amp replaced by USA Lead 2 (+ some other tweaking) as a lead sound.

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Both videos are based on the original and unedited audio track, which was recorded directly from the Axe FX into the PC.

Because of the many requests I got, now you can download the presets I used:

Overture 1928 Lead
Overture 1928 Rhythm

The Strange Deja Vu sound is the same as Overture 1928 Rhythm.

Add the following two lines to your software source list (in /etc/apt/sources.list) …

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/anders-kaseorg/subversion-1.6/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/anders-kaseorg/subversion-1.6/ubuntu jaunty main

… and add the key of Anders Kaseorg to your trusted keys …

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 413576CB

Finally update your package list and do the upgrade:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

After installing them I wanted to do a complete rebuild of my C++ code (without actually changing it since the last build) and got the follow compiler error:

‘_Swap_adl’ : is not a member of ’std’

Until an update for this problem is released you can fix this problem by replacing all occurrences of “_Swap_adl” by “swap” in the files that raise this error (e.g. xutility).

Virtual Box 3.0 released

Soon after the second beta, Sun has released the final version of VirtualBox 3.0.

One of its new features is Guest SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) with up to 32 virtual CPUs. To use it, a host CPU capable of VT-x or AMD-V is needed.

Besides OpenGL 2.0 support for Windows, Linux and Solaris guest systems, the new version comes with an experimental Direct3D support for version 8 and 9 on Windows guest systems.

Further information can be found in the changelog.

VirtualBox 3.0 can be downloaded from the official download site or on vbox.me for the portable version.

Also still experimental, the Direct3D support is another step in the direction of virtualized GPUs. In the future, direct hardware support should make this even faster and more stable.