Yee haa! I'd love run a Unix based music system - there's a great article in Sound on Sound this month (you've probably seen it), about Linux for music. Somehow I think there's something inherently techno-y about using Unix to do music!! Call it the geek quotient...;-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "House of Suki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sakari Karipuro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "313" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: RE: (313) production and mastering > The protools that comes with the digi001 (not the free one) supports XP (and > better yet, digi released WDM drivers so you can use any windows prog with > the hardware) and PT 6 will also run on XP. I am not a big fan of protools > since the midi support still seems a little awkward (compared to logic or > cubase anyway) but I cannot really talk smack about their hardware which is > the best by a long shot. However, I think in a couple years the idea of > using protools as a "Techno" production platform will not even come into > play since PCs are outpacing Macs both in price and performance and the > improvements in affordable sound interfaces will soon make the $50k, > $300/hour studio obsolete for dance music producers. Once Windows is taken > out of the picture and companies get a little initiative (how about a custom > Linux distro for Cubase ala final scratch?) we will see the true advent of > the home studio. > > -raph > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sakari Karipuro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:30 AM > To: 313 > Subject: Re: (313) production and mastering > > > spw wrote on Thu, 6 Feb 2003 about following: > > > No offence, but it sounds like you have never used Pro Tools. > > There is the free version at digidesign's web site if you want to become > > more familiarized with the software. http://www.digidesign.com/ > > seems that it still is win98/me only on windows platform, and i'm sure > pretty much nobody uses win98/me anymore. > > yes, i've tried it in win2k + xp, and it doesn't work. i don't > actually need it for anything, but i would have wanted to try. > > sakke > -- > - * remixes out now * - > http://www.arabuusimiehet.com/sakke/music.html > > >
