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Posted by Storyteller on May-10-2009 08:21:

I'm actually getting some insight on the subject as I started working on a company full of mac people. Everybody who is experiencing problems with networking are on macs, same for using printers. It's hilarious


Posted by gr8ape on May-12-2009 15:33:

Considering cubase and logic are the two big sequencers out there, either one of them is fine


Posted by Zild on May-12-2009 15:39:

quote:
Originally posted by gr8ape
Considering cubase and logic are the two big sequencers out there, either one of them is fine


And both of them run great on Macs.


Posted by Zak McKracken on May-12-2009 15:47:

Reason runs on both Mac on PC. And when Record comes it should be all u need.


Posted by gr8ape on May-12-2009 18:44:

But you people have to agree....macs are a little gay


Posted by RichieV on May-12-2009 18:48:

hahaha ya

i can't deny that as a mac owner. The manual for the mac pro desktop is 10 pages long. There is no mother board manual, no OS manual. I suppose the other side is that they don't need manuals.

I still use my PC to mix and my 5000$ mac is just a big sampler.


Posted by gr8ape on May-12-2009 18:53:

but in the end, if you have your sequencer, your vsts, your effects, good soundcard/audio interface

what else do you need?


Posted by RichieV on May-12-2009 18:55:

i don't understand your question ?

You could need alot of things depending on your situation.


Posted by cronodevir on May-12-2009 19:52:

quote:
Originally posted by RichieV
i don't understand your question ?

You could need alot of things depending on your situation.


RIght, I need dual quasi-interloped pipelines clocked in at 1.21 giggawatts, with a decay factor of just 1.6 milliseconds, in order for the ampature wave forms to recalibrate the syncing of the oscillator with a latency of twenty thousand forty-eight.. You just can't get that shit on a Mac....


Posted by Zak McKracken on May-12-2009 20:53:

to avoid bashing at work i had to said i installed windows on my Mac.


Posted by gr8ape on May-12-2009 21:35:

quote:
Originally posted by RichieV
i don't understand your question ?

You could need alot of things depending on your situation.


concerning mac vs pc, what youre gonna need is probably independant from your os...


Posted by DJ RANN on May-12-2009 22:26:

quote:
Originally posted by Zild
And both of them run great on Macs.


...but logic doesn't

And Richie, you're doing it wrong - use cheap PC's as your giga's and mix on the mac. That's what all the composers I know do.....


Posted by RichieV on May-13-2009 21:08:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RANN
...but logic doesn't

And Richie, you're doing it wrong - use cheap PC's as your giga's and mix on the mac. That's what all the composers I know do.....


giga was discontinued.That was how i used to do it and using lots of pcs is just cumbersome. Nobody does it that way anymore. The mac as sampler was the only way to use 32 gigs of ram. And I also prefer sonar over logic for mixing.


Posted by DJ RANN on May-13-2009 21:14:

quote:
Originally posted by RichieV
giga was discontinued.That was how i used to do it and using lots of pcs is just cumbersome. Nobody does it that way anymore. The mac as sampler was the only way to use 32 gigs of ram. And I also prefer sonar over logic for mixing.


Doesn't matter that giga was discontinued - I can 20 top composers that do it that way and won't change anytime soon. Some of the best strings are in giga format and slave PC's come very cheap. They get loads of rackmount servers and use them as giga's. Bear in mind, money is no object to them and this is how they choose to do it.

Sonar is your own deal but most I know compose in logic or cubase, then go to PT for mixdown. I fact i don't know any pro's that do it any other way.

But if it works for you don't fix it because that's how they do it - you might well be ahead of the curve.


Posted by RichieV on May-13-2009 21:25:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RANN
Doesn't matter that giga was discontinued - I can 20 top composers that do it that way and won't change anytime soon. Some of the best strings are in giga format and slave PC's come very cheap. They get loads of rackmount servers and use them as giga's. Bear in mind, money is no object to them and this is how they choose to do it.


I'm pretty sure the top 20 composers don't use sample librairies at all. Everyone still uses orchestras including Hanz Zimmer. And the reason any used giga was because Vienna Librairie was giga format but that changed years ago. Nobody is using gigastudio anymore. If they are, it is because they have an antiquated system they spent lots of money on. When time comes to renovate, they will dump all those useless machines.

There is an article somewhere detailing how Klaus Badelt went from 100 pcs to 1 mac. It is cumbersome to have lots of pcs. Hanz is a different story because he has proprietary software they invested in years ago and you don't just throw away something you spent hundreds of thousands on. And the best strings are not in giga. But if they were , you can just convert them.

I don't see why you are prescribing something that is discontinued , cumbersone , expensive, prone to breakage when I can do the exact same with 2 computers. It might of been the way to do it 2 years ago but it makes absolutely no sense anymore.


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