[RWP] My Next Investment, a Wreck of a Mac

[Chris Belle]

Hey Jim, maybe we're all living in a space time warp.

Everybody keeps telling me the cd is dead, but for some strange reason I 
keep burning them and cash keeps changing hands.

Maybe you guys are all 15 years down stream from me and I'm writing you 
from 1999.

Hello to the future

Life is amusing isn't it?

Takes all kinds.

On 9/4/2014 10:16 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
> Yes,  if you observe this, there is a different reason for it.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 8:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] My Next Investment, a Wreck of a Mac
>
>
>> Laughing my ass off over here.
>>
>> On 9/4/2014 7:47 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>>> Allow me to be the first to respectfully call you crazy :)
>>>
>>> On 9/4/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>>> I listen to recordings I know were rendered on a Mac, any old Mac, and
>>>> those rendered on any Windows computer, and anybody can tell me I'm
>>>> crazy, but all those rendered on Macs are both a dozen times louder 
>>>> and
>>>> way clearer.
>>>> For example, when I google for PropellerHeads Reason installed in
>>>> Windows, there's a world of difference in the usual background 
>>>> music in
>>>> PropellerHeads videos, all done on Macs.
>>>> I'm tired of hearing the huge loss of quality I hear when rendering to
>>>> .wav, .aiff, .flac, whatever foremat, on any Windows computer.
>>>> Before I render the sound, , like Camel Audio's Alchemy, LinPlug's
>>>> Albino, and a hundred other VST's, they're absolutely gorgeous in
>>>> Windows, so the issue doesn't exist before rendering.
>>>> I've tried all the rendering options in Sonar, also the very 
>>>> slowest and
>>>> highest-quality rendering in Reaper, same result, the rendered file
>>>> loses volume, loses bass, loses presence, it's something to do with
>>>> Windows itself, whether XP 32, Windows 7 64 bit, Windows 8, all the
>>>> recordings I hear show it.
>>>> Why does anyone suppose that you see Macs everywhere in commercial 
>>>> studios?
>>>> Noone doing real professional work even bothers to say it, it's 
>>>> assumed,
>>>> Windows sucks.
>>>> Well, I'm not going to inflict navigating around Reaper on a Mac on
>>>> myself, I'll continue to do all but final rendering in Reaper on my I7
>>>> Windows machine.
>>>> I'm just going to hit my local Craig's List and pick up an old Mac in
>>>> whatever affordable condition, connect its soundcard to my Windows
>>>> computer soundcard by SPDIF, then do all the pre-rendering work on
>>>> Windows, then shoot the files over to the Mac and render them to 
>>>> .aiff.
>>>> It's an interesting and affordable experiment anyway.
>>>> The only way to prove or disprove a theory is to do the experiment.
>>>> Indi
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