any know if any one made a hit song on a PC not mac

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Posted by bumbum on Oct-01-2002 01:48:

any know if any one made a hit song on a PC not mac

i started working in sam ash and this guy told me that 99% of all music is made on macs

any one know if any big time produsers use pc

Posted by Pjotr G on Oct-01-2002 06:30:

the 99% bit is bullshit, that was 10 years ago. Nowadays it's a matter of personal taste

Posted by Veldrid on Oct-01-2002 14:05:

Punch that guy in the face next time you see him, and tell him to go make that on a Mac.

Posted by Dj Ahter on Oct-01-2002 14:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Veldrid
Punch that guy in the face next time you see him, and tell him to go make that on a Mac.

Punch him one more time for me
Today PC's are fast enough to do anything...

Posted by Michael Russo on Oct-02-2002 00:09:

hahaha

how do these people get hired?

Posted by migitymike on Oct-02-2002 14:26:

deeepsky works on pcs

but logic was bought out by apple..so they wont be making any more pc based stuff.
so yeah

Posted by PseudoCoder on Oct-02-2002 14:28:

Software

Are there any songs that are made from mostly software that went BIG??

Posted by DJ Sound on Oct-03-2002 03:32:

alot of music these days is made on pc.....and alot of huge name producers i know have stopped using hardware all together for software.

Posted by Bondor on Oct-05-2002 03:07:

quote:
Originally posted by DJSound
alot of music these days is made on pc.....and alot of huge name producers i know have stopped using hardware all together for software.

who?

Posted by Syprik on Oct-05-2002 07:57:

I've produced solely using Buzz/Logic-EXS24/Reason/Absynth/FM7, and let's just say you've seen a few of my releases at your local shop. I will admit to being a hardware synth/sampler junkie, but I have without exaggeration produced tracks solely on the PC/Mac in my home studio. So let this encourage you up and coming producers...computers are the wave we are riding right NOW...and for the future.

I'm in contact with James Holden, and he produced "Nothing" (orig mix) on a cheap PC running Buzz, which he built a "few" years back. It's quite a punk arrangement he has going...perhaps a big reason he keeps track arrangements/sounds on the edge of the scene.

My partner tells me BT did a respectable amount of his latest album on the comp (he brains everything into Logic...mostly on Mac, but def has PC for the windows only softs). He did have to accomodate for the fact his entire studio was robbed a while back though.

Mac vs PC is a moot point. Use what is best compatible with your sound interface (drivers) and preferred choice of software. No offense to those working at your local retail music shops, but most have not a clue what is going on. I don't even contact a good majority of my hardware/software reps anymore because they just dont know what is going on. I read read read everything in mags and the net...your best source!

As for general sound quality comparison...synth/processing/mix engine algorithms have caught up to what you will find in most low-to-mid tier "hardware" oriented studios. My engineer masters everything through a $600 mixer plug-in (Sony Oxford mixer modeler) in PT TDM...no more need for insanely pricey Neve/Amek/SSL mixing desks and their rental fees. What becomes the breaking point is the AD & DA converters of your sound interface and the monitoring system. If you care to know, I monitor on Mackie HR824 and Genelec 1030's, and use RME DSP Hammerfall w/Digiface interfacing with an Apogee AD/DA Rosetta 96k. Nothing too crazy, hey?

Keep up the hard work fellas. Seems like a good bunch on this forum.

Caio.

Syprik

Posted by Michael Russo on Oct-05-2002 16:02:

Nice post, Spyrik! and welcome to TA

I personally love software... there are so many awesome companies making vst's these days, and they're getting better and better. There is SOOO much good stuff out there though, and I'm not sure what I want to finally use and buy. I'm not going mac so that eliminates logic, but I'm torn between floops and acid 4 and vsts or cubase ls with reason and vst's. I'm not really a huge fan of reason, and I wouldn't want to make a whole song with it, but I would like it solely for all of my percussion, simply because of everything you can do with it. The samplers are good and you can do some intersting things to your percussion samples with some good wiring.

I've been meaning to delve more deeply into buzz, but I have so little time. How do you integrate buzz into your setup? Do you generate sounds from it and then sample them? Or do you sync it with your main sequencer?

Posted by CrackedLcd on Oct-06-2002 03:39:

check out a bunch of known producers websites and they say a lot of the time what the comp system they use....some use P3 or P4 systems

Posted by El~ZaPo on Oct-06-2002 16:36:

Airbase uses a PC, and he has produced so really nice songs and remixes (such as his recent remix of the new Above & Beyond). Check out his site: www.airbase.nu