Re: im about to start a war

[Joey Cagle <joey.cagle@gmail.com>]

I'm using Linux for making and recording music.  :-)  There's some 
decent open source software out there for music, and some software 
loopers too.  Hey, I got this on topic!

Joey

RICK WALKER wrote:
> Dear Todd,
> I feel compelled to respond to your rant about
> how clunky you think Windows is as an operating system.
>
> Different operating systems have different paradigms.
> Of course, it will take you time to learn how to use it.
> Different human beings designed it.  Of course there will be things you
> hate about a new system (especially if you are unused to it---I'm 
> forever swearing at
> my G4 laptop when it siezes up on me............I just don't know it 
> very well compared
> to my PC desktop music workstation).
>
> I've always done Windows so working on a new Mac system is really 
> clunky and inefficient
> (merely because I don't know it yet).    The lack of sophisticated 
> right click functionality alone
> makes me much faster on a PC than on a Mac system,  but most of that is
> just because it's what I know.
>
> Try going from Sonar to Logic or Cubase..............they do roughly 
> the same things but the
> gui is different and the way you think is different.
>
> I don't want to be an apologist for all the flaws of Windows,   but 
> there is so much more fascinating
> software being developed for it...............there are especially 
> many , many more free plugins being developed for it.
> There are incredible programs like Sony Vegas,  Acid,  Sound Forge 
> (still for my money the best and easiest sound
> editor on both platforms and I've used all of them),  FLStudio 
> Producers Edition, Granulab,  Tuareg,  etc., etc.
> that it's tough to hear people bash it so much in these posts.
>
> I believe that to say that you don't like it and don't want to use it 
> is really valid,
> but to complete diss a very, very sophisticated music creation 
> environment
> because you don't like it borders on ignorance and potentially can 
> come off as  arrogance.
>
> World class music is made every day on PCs................as well as 
> Macs.
>
> I made my last two CDs entirely on a PC system that had a single core 
> 2.4 mghz processor and
> a whopping 512 megs of RAM.
>
> When people review the music they never say,   "wow, you ignoramous,  
> you didn't use a Mac with
> it's obviously superior operating system to create this".    They 
> never say, "what an asshole , you
> only used 512 megs of RAM and a single core dinosaur processor to 
> create this?"
>
> No, they talk about the music which is really what it's all about in 
> the long run.
>
> Additionally,  I because I live off of my artistry and don't have a 
> ton of money,  I have to be sensitive to cost.
> I'd love to be able to shell out $3,600 it would take to get the fully 
> tricked out MacBook pro with the 4 gigs of RAM
> and the superduper fast hardrive  plus the $900 for the tricked out 
> RME 800 break out box but
> I just don't have that money to spend.
>
> One of the things about PCs when you are on a budget is, that if you 
> have a desktop machine you can improve
> your machine $100 to $200 at a time by purchasing just barely trailing 
> edge technology.
> It's not so cheap and easy to do that (especially with motherboards 
> and processors) in the Mac world.
>
> So,    Macs fucking rule and I heartily applaud anyone who loves their 
> system.
> It's okay for those of us who are in the PC world to love the setups 
> we have, too, however
>
> If you use a tricked out Macbook pro and make incredible looping music 
> does that
> make Andre LaFosse less of an artist because he uses a Gibson Echoplex 
> with
> and Apple IIC neanderthal processor in it.
>
> Of course not.
>
> No us and them,  brother..............................only US!
>
> All respect,   Rick Walker
>