Re: [microsound] q's:

[sony mao <sony_mao@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

just got this dispatch on platforms and pgms. had 7 performances over 6 days 
ending halloween night. running numbers on monday and tuesday with a lecture 
at the time-based art lab at fiu.
i don't know about the best, but i just did two shows in miami As "needle") 
with v/vm and ashtray navigations and i used my pc and a beta audio mulch 
live. it duplicates shows i did in the eighties riding the faders with two 
effectrons, three tape echoes (3 sound-on-sound decks) and various verbs and 
delays, all running back into each other. lovely! my hats off to Ross.

right now my platform is a 400mhz pII (with 64m ram--i need 128, tho, cdrw, 
2nd cd rom, 13g hard-drive, 56k modem, sound card,keyboard and monitor it 
cost about $750 to put together) economy is the reason i chose this 
platform, with servicing also a major consideration. i have a computer 
scientist and pc expert in the wings. apple support is THE WORST, or at 
least was the worst for me-very disheartening considering how much money we 
spent, going directly to apple co.
when i put together an experimental media lab based around media 100 at 
wolfson/mdcc and had hardware problems; when i could finally get thru to 
apple support, they consistently shifted blame to third parties, until their 
vendor bench-tested my power mac and concluded, yes, apple's hardware was at 
fault. i went through six(!) applevision monitors until i had a pair that 
lasted more than 6 months.
that said, mac is nonetheless the platform i prefer, windows is clunky and 
i'd like to try out max from ircam and the g4 looks great.
but i do get much use from sound forge.


                sony mao

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