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I'm using Linux for making and recording music. :-) There's some decent open source software out there for music, and some software loopers too. Hey, I got this on topic! Joey RICK WALKER wrote: > Dear Todd, > I feel compelled to respond to your rant about > how clunky you think Windows is as an operating system. > > Different operating systems have different paradigms. > Of course, it will take you time to learn how to use it. > Different human beings designed it. Of course there will be things you > hate about a new system (especially if you are unused to it---I'm > forever swearing at > my G4 laptop when it siezes up on me............I just don't know it > very well compared > to my PC desktop music workstation). > > I've always done Windows so working on a new Mac system is really > clunky and inefficient > (merely because I don't know it yet). The lack of sophisticated > right click functionality alone > makes me much faster on a PC than on a Mac system, but most of that is > just because it's what I know. > > Try going from Sonar to Logic or Cubase..............they do roughly > the same things but the > gui is different and the way you think is different. > > I don't want to be an apologist for all the flaws of Windows, but > there is so much more fascinating > software being developed for it...............there are especially > many , many more free plugins being developed for it. > There are incredible programs like Sony Vegas, Acid, Sound Forge > (still for my money the best and easiest sound > editor on both platforms and I've used all of them), FLStudio > Producers Edition, Granulab, Tuareg, etc., etc. > that it's tough to hear people bash it so much in these posts. > > I believe that to say that you don't like it and don't want to use it > is really valid, > but to complete diss a very, very sophisticated music creation > environment > because you don't like it borders on ignorance and potentially can > come off as arrogance. > > World class music is made every day on PCs................as well as > Macs. > > I made my last two CDs entirely on a PC system that had a single core > 2.4 mghz processor and > a whopping 512 megs of RAM. > > When people review the music they never say, "wow, you ignoramous, > you didn't use a Mac with > it's obviously superior operating system to create this". They > never say, "what an asshole , you > only used 512 megs of RAM and a single core dinosaur processor to > create this?" > > No, they talk about the music which is really what it's all about in > the long run. > > Additionally, I because I live off of my artistry and don't have a > ton of money, I have to be sensitive to cost. > I'd love to be able to shell out $3,600 it would take to get the fully > tricked out MacBook pro with the 4 gigs of RAM > and the superduper fast hardrive plus the $900 for the tricked out > RME 800 break out box but > I just don't have that money to spend. > > One of the things about PCs when you are on a budget is, that if you > have a desktop machine you can improve > your machine $100 to $200 at a time by purchasing just barely trailing > edge technology. > It's not so cheap and easy to do that (especially with motherboards > and processors) in the Mac world. > > So, Macs fucking rule and I heartily applaud anyone who loves their > system. > It's okay for those of us who are in the PC world to love the setups > we have, too, however > > If you use a tricked out Macbook pro and make incredible looping music > does that > make Andre LaFosse less of an artist because he uses a Gibson Echoplex > with > and Apple IIC neanderthal processor in it. > > Of course not. > > No us and them, brother..............................only US! > > All respect, Rick Walker >