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In Reply to: Re: getting started in computer-based audio posted by fmak on April 13, 2007 at 11:30:57:
Only true of PC's not macs
J. Gordon Rankin
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I am disappointed by the way some make Apple computers better than PC's as this whole myth is absolutely absurb! Even one claiming in a post below that Apple computers are used in 99% of recording studios and that PC software sucks. I don't get it, is this suppose to be about the music and its reproduction or bashing of the computers. Here is an answer that I have found on the great debate:Back in the mid 90's, Macs were dominant in computer assisted recording studios that actually made money. If you did not have one, you were not going to get as much work. That changed dramatically as we rounded the bend into year 2000. Today it is hard to say which is more popular. Your choice as a professional should be influenced by your clients, that is, by your customer base. Today people will be bringing you projects they started at home on their home computers, and if you want the job, you need to be able to cater to them. You might get a Sonar Project or one made in Digital performer. Of course if you have ongoing contracts with clients that are all Mac based, or with a Pro Tools studio, you might get a clue of what they might insist that you have. If you are exclusively Mac based, you'll be scratched off the list by producers that are working on tracks with Fruity Loops or developing a new video game on the PC.
Macs do not "sound better". Nor do PCs. That is another myth. The computer never touches the sound anyway, your audio interface's converters do. Get a RME Fireface for either platform and you have the same, great sound. The math that the CPU uses to execute audio transformations is a function of the application, not the CPU. The plugins and software instruments that affect the sound have nothing to do with platform. Since both machines can use the same hard drives, you won't find a smoking gun in storage either.
I have done some pro audio work... all on the PC, and using an array of tools that one would find hard to find on OSX without lots of $$$.Audio is an area where MACs are strong, as with 2D graphical layout, but I find that on the PC there is just a larger variety of tools... and in every area not relating to those two, the PC wins without question, the audio and graphics are an even tie, with both platforms being about equal. (although I would argue for the PC, since there is just so many more apps)
Besides, today's MACs are on the same hardware that PCs use... the apple fans seem too into what Steve Jobs had for dinner than the fact that apple is less about hardware and more about branding.
just based on my latest findings, etc..........
We absolutely agree with you!!
Thanks for the informative discussion Vincent VRS and Tuckers.
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