21 Jun
2003
21 Jun
'03
11:36 p.m.
The problem I had with osx was that there wasn't enough good audio
freeware. Pd works well, and so does csound and soundhack, but I use a lot
of midi and find the lack of a free app like muse or rosegarden4 is not so
nice, given logic audio costs $750. What I did was go back to os9 on my
one machine and I run protools free for some things, but by and large I
use linux for most of my production and performance, but there too I use
my laptop with a korg electribe sampler and sync them together, so I don't
see linux as a monolithic solution, but it adds too many unique apps to
not have a big part of my studio, even if I'm an old mac/protools user.
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ivica Bukvic wrote:
Hi all,
Just heard the news (rumors) of new Macs that are going to hit the
streets on Monday. Seems like Apple is finally going to catch-up with
the PC world: there's talk of using IBM's PowerPC 970 64-bit CPU's.
Makes me wonder what repercussions this will have on the whole LAD/LAU
community, considering that they supposedly will have built-in optical
audio I/O and with the recent announcement of Trolltech to make OS X Qt
GPL-ed, leaves less and less advantages in Linux's favor (apart from the
obvious untouchable open architecture and perhaps faster growing
user-base -- according to recent news, can't remember where I exactly I
read it tho, sale of factory-built Linux boxes should surpass Apple's
this year, and that does not even include people with home-built
machines and dual-booters).
Please don't get me wrong. I am still in favor of Linux, obviously due
to its open architecture. But at the same time I am becoming a bit weary
of having to "hack" my advanced audio settings rather than use
user-friendly tools. That, coupled with still anemic direct vendor hw
driver support has really made me pay closer attention on Macs (as scary
as that sounds). Yet, I feel such a sense of accomplishment when my
Linux purrs just right with my desktop being uniquely configured and
tailored to my needs. After all, I am a geek. :-) And the inner struggle
goes on...
Anyone care to comment or (please) dissuade me from potentially making a
costly mistake? ;-)
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico