june@tough.com wrote:
>
> >>>>>i'm thinking bout getting a PC to
> >>>>>replace my trusty ole atari.
>
> >> first, get a mac!!! ;)
> >> june
>
> > Then go ahead and BUY him one.
> > :. elson trinidad
>
> hey, it was just the feeling i had at the time i read the mail... i was thinking all musiproducers are using more Mac? i mean, at first it was Atari, or Amiga, but now? Am i wrong? what r u using, Elson? and others people?
> peace and respect
For the longest time Ataris were popular wuth musicians, because they had
built-in MIDI ports on the computer, no need to buy an interface. Then Macs
became popular because they were the first to have a user-friendly graphic
interface. But after Win95 came out, Windows PCs soon caught up. Now, there's
more software available on PC.
Macs are still popular in the studio because of tradition, most especially in
the Pro Tools realm, which is largely Mac-based, and that platform had the time
to develop and propagate in the studio scene.
Nowadays, realistically, there's not much of a difference. Technology has
advanced enough that you can get a real good MIDI/digital recording studio on
either platform. Neither is necessarily better, and it also depends on software
and your particular hardware configuration.
A lot of the time, when people are getting into something, they ask around and
simply get what everyone else is getting, so they don't have to make their own
decisions (that's not a slam against Macs, it's just reality), that's why a lot
of people just grabbed Macs at the time (so much for 'Think Different' eh? :))
Also, there wasn't much of an alternative at the time (late 80s - early 90s)...
PCs used either DOS or the horrible Windows 3.1 which wasn't very good for
multimedia. And Ataris were perfect for MIDI, but their use as a digital audio
recording tool was limited.
> june (working on Adobe Illust and Phtshp, Macromedia stuff... on Mac!)
Sure. Even moreso than the music/audio scene, Macs have traditionally been the
choice for graphical work and multimedia, mostly because Mac monitors were the
first to offer large screens to work with. Nowadays, it doesn't make much of a
difference, and IMHO graphics look more sharper on a Windows PC than on a Mac
(looks too "creamy" and "cloudy" to me).
So what are better, Macs or PCs? Well, both are computers, and all computers
WILL crash, so...from a completely rational, objective viewpoint, it's pretty
much a draw (Though devout Mac cult members will tell you otherwise...)
If you want to know what I use for my music, I have a relatively fast Windows PC
system, running Cakewalk 9.0 and a variety of audio editing programs. It's not
the "trendiest" system (most people favor Emagic Logic these days) but I'm
familiar enough with Cakewalk so that I can concentrate on the music rather than
trying to learn the software.
In the end, it's what you can do with your toys, not what kind of toys you have...
Elson
(Typing this at work on his Mac...hah)
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