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Re: long delay for mac
On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Gareth Whittock wrote:
The choice of plugins seems minuscule compared to windows or am I just
looking in the wrong places?
I've discussed this phenomenon many times here at L.D.
When KVR had their KVR challenge (offering a few thousand dollars to the
person who created the most
inventive freeware audio effects plugin) hundreds were submitted and of
the forty that were published,
there were only two for OSX versus 36 for Windows (a couple for Linux,
too, as I recall).
This has been a constant in the Windows world for the past ten years.
There's just a lot more freeware (and idiosyncratic) developement of
effects plugins
Personally, I look for the intense (and often quirky) creativity that
come from young people's freeware plugins.
The last KVR challenge winner made a plugin that simulates insect
sounds..........lol! So, I'm more a
fan of Windows. Also, for me, the presence of programs like FL
Studio/Sony Vegas/Sony Sound Forge/Sony Acid
and stand alone creative apps like Granulab and Tuareg (slicer program)
that just aren't available for OS X keeps me there.
There are also wonderful programs (very notably, Logic Pro) that aren't
found on Windows and there's the whole
aspect of potential viruses and mal and phisware that plague Windows
(solution: don't use your audio system online!)
but I just read an article that said that now that Apple has become the
largest media company on earth that virus writers
are starting to target Macs. Computer security problems are here to
stay, I"m afraid.
There are, of course, many advantages to using OS X as well, but I still
run Windows (and even, archaicly,
Win XP which is now 2 OSs old, because it works so well for my audio set
up).
Solutions?
Use Bootcamp with a dual boot system; install Win XP Professional,
Service Pack 2 or
Win 7 and do your music editing on the Win XP side and import your files.
or stay with OS X and Use a VST wrapper with either AU or TDM plugin
systems in your DAW.
Good luck, Gareth. The Intel Macs (with their abilities to have
dual boot systems) are, if very pricey, very wonderful
(and this is said by someone who randomly seems to have bought a lemon
MacBook Pro).