Re: [microsound] MAC

["Dr. Twlo Tlwo, Pataphysician" <disck@xxxxxxxx>]

Øivind Idsø wrote:

> Ross wrote:
>
> > All I am a PC owner, and only went that way cause its cheaper all round, I
> > cant sell an analogue synth to get a Mac....but proggies like MAX/MSP are
> > soon out for PC so things will get closer .
>
> True, but you´ll still be missing stuff like Metasynth, SonicWORX, Soundhack,
> DS-1 (maybe not?), Peak+SFX Machine, Timebandit, GRM Tools, Hyperprism, Super
> Collider.

I believe DS-1, GRM Tools(at least the VST version, not the original different
one) and Hyperprism are all available on PC, but here's more not
available on
the PC: Argeïphontes Lyre, B1257+12, Audiosculpt, SoundMaker/SoundMagic,
PDS Soundview, MarcoHack,
BombFactory Plug-ins, Pluggo(that's included with the reference to MSP I guess)
ProTools 4.3 with no additional hardware required and all of those AS/RTAS
plug-ins, DigitalPerformer and some nice MAS plug-ins, Spark..... most
of these
don't have anything like them at all on the PC.

on the PC only side  there is AudioMulch, Acid,  CrusherX, and SayIt
that might
not have anything like them on the Mac.

Most of the programs I use on the Mac have nothing like them on the PC,
also I
think the Windoze OS is very clunky and can be tedious to navigate--to
me the
Mac is transparent at lets me work without noticing the OS.
PC's: well, the "right-click" is very nice and sorely missing from the
mac OS.
Price? well, you get what you pay for sometimes I think I saw the 450Mhz
G4 is
still quite a bit faster (over 30%, maybe more?)  than a 1000Mhz PC.

>
>
> > I hear Macs crash just as much as Pcs anyway
>
> I guess this tends to vary from PC to PC and Mac to Mac, but my own personal
> experience is that my Mac(s) crash far, far less than the PCs I´ve used
> during the last few years. And then there´s the endless amount of files, the
> counter-intuitiveness of so many things, the slowdowns, the "exception"
> errors (which are actually the rule rather than an exception) etc.

yes, it depends on many things on both PC's and Macs, right now I think
my PC is
crashing about just as often as the Mac, but I hardly use the PC...

>
> I hate PCs "so very, very much" (Cartman)

amen.

> so I should probably not talk more
> about them. Also, Powerbooks are the prettiest computers ever made. Now,
> that´s nerdtalk. But still.
>
> /Øivind/

yeah, I don't want to get into it any more detail, as this discussion
could go
on forever--it alway does... I just wanted to point out the other
important apps that are missing
from both platforms. Most of the other factors are preference and personal
experience, I do think Macs still have an overall edge for graphics and audio.
Use what you're comfortable with and does what you need it to do.
-phil