Re: im about to start a war

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Now there is a guy with balls of steel. Bravo, man. Linux is a pillar of 
stability. I hear PD (free max-like program) runs on Linux.

Kris

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Subject: Re: im about to start a war


> I'm using Linux for making and recording music.  :-)  There's some 
>decent 
> open source software out there for music, and some software loopers too. 
> Hey, I got this on topic!
>
> Joey
>
> RICK WALKER wrote:
>> Dear Todd,
>> I feel compelled to respond to your rant about
>> how clunky you think Windows is as an operating system.
>>
>> Different operating systems have different paradigms.
>> Of course, it will take you time to learn how to use it.
>> Different human beings designed it.  Of course there will be things you
>> hate about a new system (especially if you are unused to it---I'm 
>forever 
>> swearing at
>> my G4 laptop when it siezes up on me............I just don't know it 
>very 
>> well compared
>> to my PC desktop music workstation).
>>
>> I've always done Windows so working on a new Mac system is really 
>clunky 
>> and inefficient
>> (merely because I don't know it yet).    The lack of sophisticated 
>right 
>> click functionality alone
>> makes me much faster on a PC than on a Mac system,  but most of that is
>> just because it's what I know.
>>
>> Try going from Sonar to Logic or Cubase..............they do roughly 
>the 
>> same things but the
>> gui is different and the way you think is different.
>>
>> I don't want to be an apologist for all the flaws of Windows,   but 
>there 
>> is so much more fascinating
>> software being developed for it...............there are especially many 
>, 
>> many more free plugins being developed for it.
>> There are incredible programs like Sony Vegas,  Acid,  Sound Forge 
>(still 
>> for my money the best and easiest sound
>> editor on both platforms and I've used all of them),  FLStudio 
>Producers 
>> Edition, Granulab,  Tuareg,  etc., etc.
>> that it's tough to hear people bash it so much in these posts.
>>
>> I believe that to say that you don't like it and don't want to use it 
>is 
>> really valid,
>> but to complete diss a very, very sophisticated music creation 
>> environment
>> because you don't like it borders on ignorance and potentially can come 
>> off as  arrogance.
>>
>> World class music is made every day on PCs................as well as 
>> Macs.
>>
>> I made my last two CDs entirely on a PC system that had a single core 
>2.4 
>> mghz processor and
>> a whopping 512 megs of RAM.
>>
>> When people review the music they never say,   "wow, you ignoramous,  
>you 
>> didn't use a Mac with
>> it's obviously superior operating system to create this".    They never 
>> say, "what an asshole , you
>> only used 512 megs of RAM and a single core dinosaur processor to 
>create 
>> this?"
>>
>> No, they talk about the music which is really what it's all about in 
>the 
>> long run.
>>
>> Additionally,  I because I live off of my artistry and don't have a ton 
>> of money,  I have to be sensitive to cost.
>> I'd love to be able to shell out $3,600 it would take to get the fully 
>> tricked out MacBook pro with the 4 gigs of RAM
>> and the superduper fast hardrive  plus the $900 for the tricked out RME 
>> 800 break out box but
>> I just don't have that money to spend.
>>
>> One of the things about PCs when you are on a budget is, that if you 
>have 
>> a desktop machine you can improve
>> your machine $100 to $200 at a time by purchasing just barely trailing 
>> edge technology.
>> It's not so cheap and easy to do that (especially with motherboards and 
>> processors) in the Mac world.
>>
>> So,    Macs fucking rule and I heartily applaud anyone who loves their 
>> system.
>> It's okay for those of us who are in the PC world to love the setups we 
>> have, too, however
>>
>> If you use a tricked out Macbook pro and make incredible looping music 
>> does that
>> make Andre LaFosse less of an artist because he uses a Gibson Echoplex 
>> with
>> and Apple IIC neanderthal processor in it.
>>
>> Of course not.
>>
>> No us and them,  brother..............................only US!
>>
>> All respect,   Rick Walker
>>
>