Re: Loop Survey - Summary

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Do you really think a person that wants to use a software looper  
starts by deciding which operating system he wants to host that  
looping application? I find that hard to believe, since when you make  
music with a looping application there's no difference if the OS is  
Linux, OS X, Vista, Windows XP or whatever.

But if a person wants to use a computer for many tasks, playing  
looping concerts being just one of them, then I can understand the  
preference of a particular OS. Mac OSX seems to work fine that way  
(in my experience).

As far as I see the best solutions seems to be to get one of those  
new intel based Mac boxes, install Windows XP and dedicate the Win  
partitions for looping with Mobius and use Mac OS X for everything  
else. If you want to use Ableton Live or Bidule together with Mobius,  
both these applications are exactly the same on both systems and the  
license lets you use it both under OS X and Windows.

per



On 1 okt 2007, at 01.25, Zoe Keating wrote:

> actually, i think it just gives a strong hint at which OS they  
> prefer (i'd jump on mobius if it would run without windopes)!
>
> On Sep 30, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Per Boysen wrote:
>
>> So the choice of either Live or Mobius gives a strong hint at  
>> which major looping methodology a person subscribes to; Mobius  
>> going back to the EDP school of working an interchanging loop,  
>> while Live goes back to traditional sampling techniques.