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

[Scott Chesworth]

Yep, running a Mac here, but it's purely for the convenience of being
able to have the two DAWs that pay the bills on one machine, not
because I think there's much left that's superior about Apple hardware
or software nowadays beyond physical design. Tbh though, unless I'm in
Pro Tools itself, I barely touch the Mac OS side of things nowadays.
There's no love lost between me and the current iteration of
VoiceOver.

On 9/5/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> Aren't you running a Mac?
> Why?
> On 9/4/2014 8:47 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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