Please sound off with what OS you use on your music 'puters, I’m trying to guage the need for a suite of Mac tools for those who have no PC to aid in the programming/operation of MIOS.
Smash
OS X Jaguar on my iMAC (also OS 9 /Classic)(Also Virtual PC with Windows 2000 on it for PC type stuff), older MACs with OS 7.5 and 8.0 available (I intend to use these in the workshop to play with CNC and stuff).
Mickey
I should have added that the iMAC has only USB and Firewire and ethernet ports. The older MACs have serial and SCSI and ethernet ports.
Mickey
I’m also a Mac OS X user. Sounds interesting with Mac-native tools…
/Rob
Okay,
I seem to be the first one to stand up and confess to be using Windows 2k. But I have a second Linux OS on the machine, which I use for experimental stuff (and to not depend solely on M$).
Regards, ilmenator
I’m with you ilmenator, Win2k on my main machine and mandrake linux on my second (trying my best to figure it out ;D )…
I’ll be the first to admit, I use winows xp pro, and as of right now I only have one system. :-/
Okay, i’ll confess as well…
*drumfill* - Windows XP Home - *crash cymbals* & *manic laughter in the audience*
Well it’s actually quite solid for audio and smoother than W2K, but i did turn off the Fisherprice features… ;)
I to use XP home. If The OS is tweaked correctly (I recomend Tweak XP pro) and updated It will run like a dream. My XP system is far more stable that the 3 brand new G4’s running OS X and Protools 6 at my work. There are still some issues that need correcting with in OS X to improve the stablity.
Hey here is another off topic idea : Windows tweaks.
Until next time
Rowan.
There are still some issues that need correcting with in OS X to improve the stablity.
Amen brother!
Apple will eventually get it there, hopefully before OS XI…
I dual boot on the laptop, but I still spend all my work time in OS9. Luckily MAX/MSP is fine with OSX and OS9, When I build the MIOS tools for Mac they will be for both. How quickly that happens will depend on the number of Mac users that speak up here. 8)
Later!
Smash
So I only use win98se. But I got 5 machines with it on he he he.
Ian :o :o
On the Liux tip.
Is anyone using AGNULA???
I’m VERY interested in what people think of the distrubiton.
I’ve haven’t managed to get all the packages to get it running.
Rowan.
i use linux for 5-6 years,
for music it’s not actually excellent but good
now i sequence midi with rosegarden or Muse or jazz (more stable but old)
there is a good ASIO clone : JACKIT at sf.net
a good Recorder : Ardour it becaune in few weeks in 1.0
and there is more soft synth but no sampler
for more info see www.linuxsound.at
the big problem is that there is more and more config file to modify and libraries to install, it’s just the problem
TUx en chocolat
for info i use a Redhat 9.0 with official kernel 2.4.20 low latency + preemp + patch for Ext3
an atlon 1700+ (no overclocker) + 512 Mo of Ram ddr 2100 and an audiophile 24/96
all work fine with very few latency on linux and no latency on windows
does anyone use an amiga as me when i was young ;D ;D
I use XP pro and win98se for audio..
The win98se stays just for the APSlive drivers for the live5.1!
And of course because I can’t think of my PC not being able to boot from DOS and play favorite old games like sensible soccer etc!
I also have a partition with mandrake 9 but not using it for audio…
Good old lame XP pro here
Used to have dual boot up system with 2x Win98SE. One was installed using 98LITE Pro for audio use. The other one was the chubby, normal full installation for internet, school and stuff like that.
After that a dual boot up system with the ‘98lited’ Win98SE for audio and WinXP Pro for internet etc.
After that 2 pc’s. One running the 98lited Win98SE and a dualhead graphics card for audio stuff, the other runnig WinXP Pro for the rest. The ‘audio’ pc died a few weeks ago unfortunatly!!
Now i only use WinXP Pro for internet etc. I don’t use computers for making music no more until i finished the midi controller projects. I hate computers for making music, damn that mouse. Only benefits are a big interface and bizar editing capabilities. I like dedicated harware more now instead of all that software junk. And i can’t afford an RME Hammerfall or equivalent, so there’s no reason to keep on using a pc for making music.
I also got a cheap and slow P1 133 laptop which i’m maybe going to use to sequence with Cubase 2 or 3 (one without all that VST crap). But it’s old and i have to make some modifications to the thing to make it Midi compatible. I need something like an serial to ide device, because it doesn’t have a cdrom player. It’s to much trouble to install something on it. Anyone got some solutions for a familiar problem?
I use a nifty key that switches the master/slave relationship between two hard drives, thus enabling me to have one boot for normal applications (the one I am running now) and one clean for the audio. Works like a charm and is a cleaner solution than dualbooting from the same hard drive since the systems are completely separated for each other - in essence they are two different computers (except you can only use one at a time). Both systems use WinXP which is the best OS MS has created so far - for whatever that’s worth… 
Cool!
Where did you get such a switch?
I could use a clean environment for audio apps only…
Bought it from my local computer dealer (in Sweden). Called “NickLock” as I recall, costs about $5 and installs into a floppy sized slot in your computer front.
Another nice thing I did that I recommend is punching a small hole through the wall to a closet (or whatever) in an adjacent room and running the cables to the screens/keyboard through that hole. Guaranteed silence as long as your computer is reasonably quiet to start with. It does require that you find a way to move the air from the closet in summertime lest temperatures grow too high. Opening the closet suffices in this arctic country! However, water cooling would be even better.