Audio Apps Crucial to OS X
The Macintosh platform has established itself in the music industry as the leading OS for recording production. Apple sells *alot* of CPU's to studios accross the world. An important step torwards moving OS X into this world was cubase being carbonized. This isn't really one of the big guns though.
It is imperritive to bring ProTools to Mac OS X. It is the absolute industry standard in recording studios, and there is still no word from Digidesign as to when it will be released.
True it may not be as important as the release of Photoshop, but thats only relatively speaking. ProTools being carbonized is crucial to OS X's adoption in the music world. Just my $0.02. Your thoughts?
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It is imperritive to bring ProTools to Mac OS X. It is the absolute industry standard in recording studios, and there is still no word from Digidesign as to when it will be released.
True it may not be as important as the release of Photoshop, but thats only relatively speaking. ProTools being carbonized is crucial to OS X's adoption in the music world. Just my $0.02. Your thoughts?
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I think that the Mac needs something equal to Sonic Foundry's Acid Pro (Bitheadz Phrazer is close but not there) and I like the idea of the Gigasampler from Tascam.
Products that I would like to see more of is Celemony from Melodyne(Pitch shifting extraordinaire)
Also I like Steinbergs plans to use Multiple Networked Computers for VST plug ins. This could be the future of Audio on a Mac. MP and Network Processing!
<strong>If what I heard from the horse's mouth is true, then don't hold your breath for ProTools X. Like, migrate now to something that does the job as it's errrrrm not coming. If you've seen a DP1GHz eat its way through multitrack 96k 24bit audio on a Steinberg product you won't care so much.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Who told you that? And why wouldn't they make an OS X version?
BTW I've done 24bit 96khz recording with a Steinbergh product on a DP800 G4. I prefer my DP500 G4 running ProTools 5.1 any day. ProTool's interface is more intuitive and far far better than that of anything thats dribbled out of steibergh. Dont get me wrong, i respect cubase and think it has a great selling point with alot of people, but when it comes down to having the absolute best software, I've yet to meet a engineer or producer in the industry that thinks anything is better than ProTools. Ill take my own experiance and the word of the industry over some random person who thinks cubase is gods gift to digital recording.
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FWIW this was in November of last year and things may have changed. I had a full-on argument about the potential of OS X and CoreAudio; all my points were seriously rebutted and I saw absolutely no reason why he should be bullshitting me.
What are their plans then?
I have a Yamaha P200 88key keyboard and MU50 tone generator. I bought Digital Performer 2.51, but so far, I think it sucks; it's hard to use. Everyone else tells me I just don't know anything. Sounds kind of like what PC people tell someone who just bought a PC. Any recommendations for software? All I want to do is record from the keyboard, and then layer it, to make some Baroque, techno, jazz, or rock riffs. The trick is the MU50 tone generator. MIDI is a pain The Mac won't record input from the P200 and MU50 at the same time (through Midiman USB.) Maybe a software tone generator would work? If there were MIDI software as easy to use as my MacOS 9.2.2 I would be greatful to anyone who could steer me to it!
OS X has support for surround sound now. Who will provide the hardware though? Maybe Apple??
(hopefully not Creative)
<strong>I'm not quite sure that making an Audio App OSX Native REQUIRES the use of Core Audio. </strong><hr></blockquote>
I don´t know if it´s required or not but Markus Fritze (one of emagics Software engineers) said in the Logic mailing list that the MacOS X version of Logic will use Core Audio and he also pointed out that the most time consuming thing is/was not some major flaws in CoreAudio but getting used to coding and beta testing for X.
He also said something like it (Logic X) works very well with up to 50 Audio Tracks, he did not specifically pointed ot what happens if you have more than 50 but I guess it gets a little quirky/sloppy or something like that.
Sounds promising to me (and I´m waiting for the damn thing since January).
bye.
Mostly, though, I use Pro Tools Free in OS 9 if I want to record - lovely interface, nice plugins, some basic MIDI, free - result!