[Rwp] A Mac?

[Scott Chesworth]

Jes, are you basing those opinions on firsthand experience or hearsay?
Reason I ask is that - although it's not as far along as Reaper with
the various addons available for Windows yet - I'm not seeing the huge
gap between Reaper and Pro Tools you're describing with Vic's bear
bones accessibility solution. From my experience, I'd think most
people could get stuff done with a lot less button bashing and
frustration in Reaper on Mac now than in GarageBand for example, which
I found to be a sluggish, frustrating half-baked mess when using it
with VoiceOver. No experience of Amadeus Pro here, so can't pass
comment on that.

Kevin, how soon is this new computer being acquired? OSARA has plans
for better Mac support on the development timeline, but you're looking
at another 6 months or so before Jamie gets to that assuming
everything runs to schedule. For what it's worth, I'm someone who runs
Apple hardware, but VoiceOver as a screen reader means I find myself
in Windows 99% of the time unless I'm specifically using Pro Tools.
This didn't used to be the case, so it's not an unshiftable bias
against the screen reader, more that I don't dig the directions Apple
have gone in with it lately. Even on an I7 machine with 8GB of RAM and
a fast SSD, I find VO to be unresponsive as a screen reader nowadays.
I'm not saying don't go Mac because in some ways it opens up a can of
worms that you might find useful, especially given the quality of
instruments that come with MainStage for a MIDI guy like yourself,
just offering up a note of caution that if you like working fast, VO
might not be the screen reader for you.

Scott

On 8/16/15, Kevin Brown via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Hmmmmmm!,...Maybe I'll stick to the "PC"...
>
> I'm kind of liking the functionality of "Reaper" so far...
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