The problem I had with osx was that there wasn't enough good audio freeware. Pd works well, and so does csound and soundhack, but I use a lot of midi and find the lack of a free app like muse or rosegarden4 is not so nice, given logic audio costs $750. What I did was go back to os9 on my one machine and I run protools free for some things, but by and large I use linux for most of my production and performance, but there too I use my laptop with a korg electribe sampler and sync them together, so I don't see linux as a monolithic solution, but it adds too many unique apps to not have a big part of my studio, even if I'm an old mac/protools user. On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > Hi all, > > Just heard the news (rumors) of new Macs that are going to hit the > streets on Monday. Seems like Apple is finally going to catch-up with > the PC world: there's talk of using IBM's PowerPC 970 64-bit CPU's. > Makes me wonder what repercussions this will have on the whole LAD/LAU > community, considering that they supposedly will have built-in optical > audio I/O and with the recent announcement of Trolltech to make OS X Qt > GPL-ed, leaves less and less advantages in Linux's favor (apart from the > obvious untouchable open architecture and perhaps faster growing > user-base -- according to recent news, can't remember where I exactly I > read it tho, sale of factory-built Linux boxes should surpass Apple's > this year, and that does not even include people with home-built > machines and dual-booters). > > Please don't get me wrong. I am still in favor of Linux, obviously due > to its open architecture. But at the same time I am becoming a bit weary > of having to "hack" my advanced audio settings rather than use > user-friendly tools. That, coupled with still anemic direct vendor hw > driver support has really made me pay closer attention on Macs (as scary > as that sounds). Yet, I feel such a sense of accomplishment when my > Linux purrs just right with my desktop being uniquely configured and > tailored to my needs. After all, I am a geek. :-) And the inner struggle > goes on... > > Anyone care to comment or (please) dissuade me from potentially making a > costly mistake? ;-) > > Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor > http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico > >
