Article:		The Ultimate Portable Studio
Subject:		Not a hugely impressive article.
Date:		2005-07-04 06:38:32
From:		gfantsaez
Response to: Not a hugely impressive article.
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

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• Not a hugely impressive article.
  2005-07-04 09:15:49  Lovemoose [Reply | View]
  
  
  "a disgruntled PC user" eh? Disgruntled? yes, but only about your assumption. I can "tell you from experience". PC user? yes. Mac User? guess what? yes! I work on both platforms, both professionally and privately. I have used and installed pro tools on both mac and pc. I have configured numerous flavours of mac and pc over the years. Back in 1991 I used Performer on a Classic. In 1993, I bought my first PC and Turtle Beach soundcard.
  "Know what hyperthreading is?" Of course I do, (and by the way, it's eminently feasible to disable/enable it without resorting to the nuclear option of a reinstall), but my argument in my comment was that if you're in possession of the level of technological understanding required to run any DAW, then you're comfortably in possession of the level of knowledge to install a pc or a mac music system. In the past it was true that it was tricky to get things to work on PC, however, I would surmise it was roughly the same level of knowledge you needed to get OMS working on a mac at the time. In truth, not that much tweaking needs to be done on either platform these days, as many happy owners of both will tell you.
  
  "If Pro Tools users are using Audio tracks, why would they need to control their volume via MIDI?" Fair comment. But that wasn't what you stated in the article: "...use these sliders to control MIDI events, (which most musicians don’t really do)". Musicians who are playing at the keyboard will find always find it useful to control volume from that keyboard, instead of reaching for the mouse. Of course there's a other ways of doing it, as you said, but not one that doesn't disrupt a composition/playing workflow.
  
  Perhaps if you'd presented a range of software from Non-Mac, Non-Avid sources, then the article could have been taken a little more seriously; Why wasn't Performer mentioned? Why no Ableton Live or Adobe Audition? or Cubase or Sonar? Pyramix or even Rosegarden on linux? It was the arbitary way you discounted so many possible ways of doing this that made me write my first comment; the simple assumption that Mac is best/else is worst paints an inaccurate picture of the DAW world as it exists today, and perpetuates the myth that Apple is for Creatives while the PC is for accountants. It's nonsense, and it's a shame such a talented person as yourself (both from a musical and a writing perspective) helps to perpetuate it.
  
  Chris