Macs are the forefront of technology...

[geno]

is what I hear. This is in relation to professional musicians and people who compose music on computers....


I'm not a militant Anti-Mac person, but I find that to be BS for the most part.

 

[Ameesh]

ive never seen you post before and you are a lifer!

 

Yea right, everyone knows that Abacuses are in the forefront.


Remember what Macs spelled backward is.

 

[loup garou]

Um, it's completely true, especially in the realm of electronic music.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
ive never seen you post before and you are a lifer!

*smacks forehead*

I've been here longer than you!!! (used to be named genocide, now I'm non-offensive-geno )

Do a search on my name, I post often

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: werk
Um, it's completely true, especially in the realm of electronic music.

how so? I'm looking for some reasons why a Mac would be used over a more-customizable PC

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
ive never seen you post before and you are a lifer!

as The Offspring have said: "I hope you like my genocide".


Anyway, the only thing I know about music on macs is that iTunes is better than winamp or WMP

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: werk
Um, it's completely true, especially in the realm of electronic music.

No wonder electronic music sucks.

amish

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: werk
Um, it's completely true, especially in the realm of electronic music.

how so? I'm looking for some reasons why a Mac would be used over a more-customizable PC

What customizations do you need to compose music? A geforce 4 and a window with some neon lights isn't going to make it sound any better...

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: werk
Um, it's completely true, especially in the realm of electronic music.

No wonder electronic music sucks.

amish

hahahahahahhahahahhahahahaha

 

[geno]

A geforce 4 and a window with some neon lights isn't going to make it sound any better...

Umm good sound card and composition programs? I'm not sure of the support in these areas for Macs, that's why I asked.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Do Reason & Gigastudio run cross-platform? That'll stomp i-tunes by a narrow margin. There's more than Fruity loops people, or are we talking about ease-of-use "I can scratch on the beach and arrange my toy scratching sounds on the fly w/ my ibook!".

And how much hifi sound hardware is mac supported? I've never really seen that much.

EDIT: K my bad about the support. That M-Audio Delta stuff is *drool*

EDIT2: Looks like Reason has mac support, gigastudio does not. I'm not really seeing any reason why one system is better than the other except for speed issues, and I think we know who has that one.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
Do Reason & Gigastudio run cross-platform? That'll stomp i-tunes by a narrow margin. There's more than Fruity loops people, or are we talking about ease-of-use "I can scratch on the beach and arrange my toy scratching sounds on the fly w/ my ibook!".

And how much hifi sound hardware is mac supported? I've never really seen that much.

EDIT: K my bad about the support. That M-Audio Delta stuff is *drool*

EDIT2: Looks like Reason has mac support, gigastudio does not. I'm not really seeing any reason why one system is better than the other except for speed issues, and I think we know who has that one.

Most of the hardware and software is cross-platform. I think Cubase *might* have started as a Mac app, but don't quote me on that. I know that most artists that run it, run it on a Mac.

In all honesty, it probably comes down to the old observation that most "artistic" folks use Macs.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: Ameesh
ive never seen you post before and you are a lifer!

*smacks forehead*

I've been here longer than you!!! (used to be named genocide, now I'm non-offensive-geno )

Do a search on my name, I post often

ahhh i know genocide!

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

Originally posted by: Roger
Remember what Macs spelled backward is.

never thought of that! Coollll

 

[Deeko]

forefront...yea

 

[Pacfanweb]

Maybe you should have said Macs are on the foreskin of technology.

 

[StageLeft]

Macs are good at media, but they can't run anything else!

 

[starwarsdad]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Maybe you should have said Macs are on the foreskin of technology.

ROFLMFAO

Thanks for helping me close the day out with a good laugh!

 

[LAUST]

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: Ameesh
ive never seen you post before and you are a lifer!

*smacks forehead*

I've been here longer than you!!! (used to be named genocide, now I'm non-offensive-geno )

Do a search on my name, I post often

I was wondering where you went!

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
Do Reason & Gigastudio run cross-platform? That'll stomp i-tunes by a narrow margin. There's more than Fruity loops people, or are we talking about ease-of-use "I can scratch on the beach and arrange my toy scratching sounds on the fly w/ my ibook!".

I-Tunes is a jukebox program similar to Music Match, Reason is something completely different, it is a software studio. It emulates most of the major gear that electronic musicians use to make music. As so far as Mac support, Logic, a very popular MIDI sequencer(many pro electronic musicians use it) is going to be avaible only on the Apple after this year, they are actualy discontinuing PC support.

 

[Fatwhiteslug]

I work at a production Facility and for All of the Video Media we use Macs. But all of the Audio sweetening is done on A PC using Protools.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Macs are good at media, but they can't run anything else!

 

[Wheatmaster]

macs are the best for music and designing (ex: engineering, architecture, graphics, etc

 

[tcsenter]

is what I hear. This is in relation to professional musicians and people who compose music on computers.... I'm not a militant Anti-Mac person, but I find that to be BS for the most part.

It was once true, not as much anymore. At one time, desktop publishing and graphic design was heavily dominated by Apple, all of Adobe's products were developed for Apple long before Windows.

Even in the professional recording circles, the Mac is losing its edge to the PC. Protools is now available for Windows, which was unthinkable several years ago. It won't be long until the PC eclipse's Apple there, too.