Abstract: Provided herein are various new or improved airbreathing and non-airbreathing engines. In another example, a new type of rotary engine is provided and is assembled into a single body from manufactured parts and comprising front and rear non-vented case plates, a detonation channel, a center case plate, a rotary gate valve spacer plate, front and rear bearing cover plates, front and rear centrifugal fan bearings and a non-vented centrifugal flywheel fan. The front non-vented case plate and the detonation channel includes an air intake port. The center case plate comprises an adjustable fuel aerosolizing combustor - detonator. The non-vented centrifugal flywheel fan comprises a plurality of rotary gate valves, a plurality of radial fan blades and a splined drive shaft. The rotary engine also comprises a plurality of case plate bolts, case plate post spacers, case plate nuts and bearing cover plate bolts.

Abstract: A digital audio workstation software package is provided with computer readable instructions that, when executed, direct a multi-core processor to perform acts comprising accessing an audio signal. The digital audio workstation software package further includes computer-readable instructions that, when executed, direct the processor to utilize, at least in part, pipeline parallelism to enable a plurality of serially ordered plug-ins in an effects rack to process the audio signal utilizing a plurality of available processing cores to create a processed audio signal.