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Mac OS X: to use or not to use?
05/07/2001

We are starting to get more and more requests and inquiries regarding the use of Mac OS X. At this time we are not recommending it for MIDI or audio work. This is a brand new operating system that contains many radical departures from the Mac operating systems we've come to know and love. We are confident that OS X will eventually be an excellent system upon which one can build an audio or MIDI based system, but right now it just isn't. Not that there's anything wrong with it. It's just that the software and hardware developers haven't had time to implement drivers and other technology required to make their products work in such a new environment. In our testing we can hardly get any MIDI to work at all. Some audio applications work, but anything that requires interfacing to extra hardware (i.e. soundcards) mostly doesn't work. It's probably going to be six months or so before you begin to see much meaningful progress on this (in terms of deliverable product).





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May 29 - Making .MOD files
May 25 - Patch bays and the differences between normal and half-normal operation.
May 24 - Transfers from 20 bit to 16 bit through a mixer. What happens to the extra bits?
May 23 - Live mixing - digital mixer or not?
May 22 - Data compression in Roland VS series recorders.
May 21 - Piano sound differences between home and pro keyboards.
May 18 - Hearing loss: a first hand account.
May 17 - Optimizing the performance of your VG-8.
May 16 - More on upside down waveforms.
May 14 - Analog versus digital levels; getting a hot enough signal to your MasterLink.
May 11 - How to utilize line inputs of a mixer for stage sources through a snake.
May 09 - RAM differences and Kurzweil samplers.
May 08 - Upside down waveforms in a DAW.
May 07 - Mac OS X: to use or not to use?
May 04 - What's the up with FireWire Gear?
May 02 - Benefits (or not) of high sampling rates.
May 01 - MIDI Guitars - What's the deal, anyway?


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