Article:		The Ultimate Portable Studio
Subject:		Not a hugely impressive article.
Date:		2005-07-04 02:56:00
From:		Lovemoose
As a piece of Apple/Avid propaganda, this article succeeds very well. However, the idea that a Mac is the "ultimate creative machine" stretches the boundaries of credibility. The ultimate creative machine is one on which you can be most productive, and if that is a Mac so be it. But to make a sweeping statement like "I guarantee you will have headache upon headache" (if you use a PC), then I could counter it with an equally untrue argument like "I guarantee you will have headache upon headache coping with the yearly OSX upgrades". It's simply not true anymore, and spurious sweeping statements like this cloud the waters unnecessarily for buyers. On the usability front, "most people are not technical enough to get a portable studio operating on a PC"; I would argue that if you can handle the complexities of running a pro tools setup (of any level) then a setting up a PC for music shouldn't present a problem. This is 2005, not 1995. Finally, "if you want to ... use these sliders to control MIDI events, (which most musicians don’t really do)". I find it very hard to believe that any musician playing a keyboard would not want control volume over midi, at the very least. I won't argue that what's been put together here is a very good portable audio kit, it merely happens to be the equipment the author uses and likes. To call it the ultimate is a disservice to your readers.

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• Not a hugely impressive article.
  2005-07-04 06:38:32  gfantsaez [Reply | View]
  
  
  Lovemoose,
  
  Another digruntled PC user huh? Know what hyper threading is? Know how to turn it on and off? Know that Pro Tools requires it to be disabled but some other audio apps requires it to be on? Know that if you disable it and need to enable it, you have to reinstall the entire Window operating system?
  
  If Pro Tools users are using Audio tracks, why would they need to control their volume via MIDI? If you know anything about Pro Tools, there's a much simpler way to control volume than find a slider and assign MIDI Controller #7 to it.
  
  Buy a Mac and Pro Tools and then respond to the article... Anyone that uses a Mac (and knows what a true headache a PC can be) will agree that a Mac is built for creativity. I personally like PC's but I have been using computers for 20 years and also installing audio systems in studios for 10 of those. I can tell you from experience, that a PC - for non-technical musicians - is over most people's heads and that's my personal experience. I stand by what I said. A new user can be up and running with a Mac in a matter of moments. I defy anyone to say that about audio/midi and a PC....
  
  Thanks for your feedback.
  
  Gina