• Home recording studio. Mac or Windows?
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[QUOTE=reapaninja;18790976]you're doing something wrong user error =/= problems with OS[/QUOTE] Well, it certainly doesn't help that it will usually crash when playing L4D2. The game is buggy. And guess what? So is all software!
[QUOTE=mattfinch;18789107]They are when you use them to their full potential. Much more cost effective than a windows machine if you use them properly.[/QUOTE] What the fuck are you even talking about
[QUOTE=mattfinch;18789107]They are when you use them to their full potential. Much more cost effective than a windows machine if you use them properly.[/QUOTE] Buy it, get fed up after a week, sell it for 10% more than you bought it on eBay, build epic Windows 7 PC with the extra cash. Yup, you definitely have a point about their full potential. :P OP; I've not done much sound recording, but when it comes to the hardware, you can always get better hardware with a Windows machine compared to a Macintosh for the same price. Especially if you built it yourself; then you can choose custom sound cards, which would be useful for sound recording.
Production companies use Macs because of marketing from the 80's. No other good reason, except maybe that final cut is a pretty nifty program.
I will not join this embarrassing "Mac" vs "PC" discussion right now here, but give (hopefully) productive tips. The only tip I can give you is, you have to find out which hard & especially software on these platforms fit your purpose. I'm quite sure, professional audio software exists for both platforms and it's now only a question of "what you need". You have to make your own comparisons or ask a professional what he thinks.
[QUOTE=Agent766;18789224]I heard the only time you choose Mac over Windows is for multimedia.[/QUOTE] Or because you prefer Macs over windows PCs :downs:
[QUOTE=PROJEKT;18789106]macs are better because for some reason, when plugged into an usb or firewire I/O (mbox, presonus, motu etc) a lower latency is often more obtainable than on a pc... i know this because my mac get 0.27ms latency compared to my PC (which is more powerful) which only gets a latency of 3.15ms... also, logic pro studio is a beast of a DAW and is quickly becoming the standard along with pro-tools...[/QUOTE] wow, who the fuck is really going to notice 3.15ms, really now. [editline]04:20PM[/editline] and no it's not pro-tools has always been the only true standard and probably always will unless digidesign go bankrupt or some shit
Why is it even an issue how long the latency is, you're creating the fucking music [i]just correct for it[/i] jeez. I'd go so far as to speculate the updated audio stack on Vista has better quality than on OSX.
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