On 6 Apr 2006 at 10:47, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 10:38 AM 4/6/06 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: > >On 06 Apr 2006, at 8:52 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > >> Or is > >> this dual-boot a software support system only? > > > >No. > > Excellent. Now we're talkin! Thanks, Darcy! > > My current hand-built PC is starting to get a little long in the tooth > (1.4GHz Athlon), so I'm looking around for an all-bases-covered option > at last. In my lifetime! :)
My thought is that if I went with a dual-boot Mac, I'd use OS X for Finale and audio. But this raises a question for me: Are there as many free tools for this as there are for Windows? I'd hate to give up Exact Audio Copy (for burning CDs), or LAMEBatch (for batch conversion of WAV to MP3), or MIDI2Wav for recording WAV files from MIDI files, or Audacity (general wave-based audio editing). Are there free counterparts, or applets included with OS X that allow you to do this? I don't really like iTunes, to be honest, and wouldn't want to use it for the first two tasks. And does the Mac have hardware-based synthesizer cards, or is it basically a choice of outboard synthesizers or software synthesis? I'm not at all thrilled about the performance-hungry profile of VPO -- I like to do other things while letting slow processes run in the background, but if the system is already heavily taxed, the result would be flawed output files. Basically I don't want to have to walk away from the computer while these things are running. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
