[RWP] getting a mac for reaper what's the deal??

[Chris Belle]

Well, the mac is a better operating system and more efficient from jump 
street, so you could get away with more.

Yup, a server class mini makes a decent daw, but I wouldn't trust one of 
them on the windows side now for best windows based daw performance.

I totally agree about windows screen readers, and it makes me nervous 
with vo being the only game in town, if apples changes something and it 
packs up, your up the creek,

YOu have to do more work to make things work in woidnwos, choose 
hardware wisely, people tend to want to cheap out but getting a mac 
makes you have to fork out for atleast suficient hardware.

and of course less variables to deal with for them.

It's a communist camp..

Vs the wild wild west in some ways.

but ms is cop catting apple now so it's all gonna be the same.

We are at a cross roads for lots of this stuff, but we've been here 
before and it's different but remains the same too.

The old adage the more things change the more they remain the same.

Ok, enough redneck philosophy for the day.

Onward and upward.


On 5/15/2014 12:10 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> Unfortunately, screen readers are a separate consideration from
> hardware, and for whatever reason, VoiceOver is usually the first
> thing to crap the bed when a session gets taxing in my experience.
> That's a big part of the reason why I still open Reaper on Windows
> whenever I have the choice of what to use and always try to keep
> bootable older versions of Mac OS around. VO might've come a long way
> in terms of daily usage, but start taxing your machine and it becomes
> as useful as a chocolate teapot all too soon.
>
> Dunno about writing off the Airs and Minis as options. I've mixed
> songs with 50 plus tracks, a lot more plugins than would've been
> necessary had the stuff been captured well at source, plus some pretty
> CPU hungry plugs on the master bus using a 2011 Air. On both sides of
> the fence, it took way more abuse than I would've expected before it
> started to become apparent that it was an Air. Audio on an external
> drive is a must of course, but once that's done you're good to go for
> way bigger sessions than I would've thought possible. A buddy of mine
> runs a beefed up 2011 Mac Mini server and even more so in that case,
> it's an absolute beast.
>
> War stories aside, I still don't really get the point of what Trey's
> intending to purchase.
>
>
> On 5/15/14, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> One thing for sure, if you use a mac version on a mac, you'll be using
>> the right tool matched up with the right hardware so you'll get the best
>> performance, even if windows can run natively on the mac hardware, the
>> native os will run better naturally.
>>
>> Just get something decent, don' try and do it on a air or entry level
>> mac mini unless you beef it up a bit unless you are only planning to do
>> light work.
>>
>> Most folks I know doing resonable track counts on the mac hardware are
>> running imacs,
>> I am jus not a fan of running daws on laptops, never mind what the
>> vendors say,
>> ok for podcasts and such, but a daw really asks a lot of a computer,
>> so save your nickels and get something decent, even on the mac side.
>>
>>
>> On 5/15/2014 9:17 AM, Jessica Brasseal wrote:
>>> Hi. Let me first remind you that Reaper on Mac isn't as inaccessible as
>>> has often been claimed. Check the thread on this list called "Reaper Vs.
>>> ProTools", which will give you some vital info on resources to help you
>>> with accessibility of Reaper for Mac. I haven't duel booted on my Mac
>>> before, so I can't really speak for that directly. I just wanted to point
>>> out that you don't need to install Windows on your Mac in order to use
>>> Reaper. It just takes a little research, a few tools and an open mind,
>>> most of which you need anyway to use Reaper on Windows.
>>> On May 15, 2014, at 8:12 AM, trahern culver <sound.warrior20 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey all, I'm thinking of getting a mac to duel boot windows 7 for use
>>>> with reaper.
>>>>
>>>> and i'm wondering if this is a good idea? because I've herd bad things
>>>> about the latest macs and duel booting them with windows, I've herd there
>>>> are latency problems.
>>>>
>>>> Please can some one advice me of the current situation?
>>>>
>>>> your help with this question would be most welcome kind regards trey.
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