suede Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 eric what kind of computer do you use ? when did you first jump on the www ? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 I won't answer for Eric (even though I know the answer) but I will say that every single person I have ever known who is in some way involved in a creative activity has used a Mac. Artists, photographers, musicians, film editors, illustrators, actors, designers, photo retouchers, etc. Ever single one of them uses a Mac. Exclusively. Those Mac users would rather shoot themselves than ever use a PC. Bernie (Mac user since they invented 'em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Carmen Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 The Carmen's are an all Mac household. Mine is a G5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 All we all running 10.4.5??? I'm running a 733 mgz G4, but have it maxed out at 1.25gb of ram...250mb hard drives...mediocre by todays standards,but it's still swift with Adobe AE,CS, and Illustrator. I run Cocktail every week to keep it straight! Macs make computing....FUN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 10.4.6, my friend! Coming soon: Apple Leopard, which will run Windows natively side-by-side with the Mac OS. Lookout, number-crunchers and spread-sheet lovers! Apple wants to sex up your computer! Bernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 I am toying with the idea of trying a Mac. I am spending many, many hours a day working in Photoshop. My Dell/Windows machine is two years old. If I get a Mac, what am I going to notice, other than I am instantly cooler?Gene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Carmen Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 I just had to beef up my ram to 4gb in order to accomodate a two software programs (one for piano, one for orchestra) that are HUGE. Just the piano software (which contains the most astounding 11 ft. Bosendorfer I have ever heard) was 9 or 10 cd's to download. e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlene Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 An ELEVEN foot Bosendorfer???!!! I can't IMAGINE what that must sound like. A Bosendorfer *half* that size would be an incredible piano! --D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Carmen Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 The software is from a company in Boston called Synthology. It's called Ivory and was created by a couple of guys who used to work for Kurzweil. It contains three pianos: an eleven foot Bosendorfer with your choice of the standard 88 keys or the extended version with extra keys beyond the bottom octave utilized by Franz Liszt and a few others, a nine foot German Steinway D, and a seven foot Yamaha. They are all exttraordinary and every possible parameter can be individually controlled including the resonance of the soundboard, pedal noise, open or closed lid, etc. Check out their website. In a word, awesome. ec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suede Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 eric what controller do you use ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Carmen Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Pro tools Digi 002. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAM Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I LOVE Pro Tools .... right up there with Double Stuff Oreos! I'm using a Digi 001. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suede Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 I am sorry I meant keyboard controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Digi 001 for me. Now, if I just had a Mac 5 Quad, I'd be rolling... no, wait, I'd need the 002, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Carmen Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 A Yamaha Clavinova. ec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Carmen Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 My guess is it's the "top notch rack unit computer made by Sweetwater" that's the problem. I have no latency problems with mine but I'm playing directly through through my G5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobsterLvr Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Back in the day (the old aol days) my original screen name 'sheamac'; a combination of my last name and the computer brand I used at that time....and have ever since!!! Unfortunately that screen name ended up one of the million things I DIDN'T get to keep in my divorce. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 I thought this was an interesting thread, so I've been meaning to chime in with a tale of woe.... I use both a PC and a Mac for a publishing venture (monthly color newsletter). I do all my writing/editing on a Gateway PC and I switch to a Mac for design and production. The Mac I'd been using since 2001, when we launched, was a G4 (OS9). I got 5-plus years out of it, but 7 weeks ago, it crashed, big time. Total hard drive failure. I had some important material backed up on a server, but I also lost a ton of stuff. ("Hard drive crash? That'll never happen to me....") So my publisher had me go out and buy this fancy new G5, but I admit that during the resulting crash crisis, I was too overwhelmed to make the switch instantly. (Between the new operating system, 10.4.6, and a switch-over from Quark to Indesign, I felt "out of place".... I'm not a designer by trade.) So I called on a local publisher that still uses G4s and Quark, and finished up there. At the same time, a friend lent me an old G4 that was sitting in a closet at a college where he worked. I got almost all the way through the next deadline when -- as luck would have it -- the thing bit the dust! Two crashed G4s in 6 weeks! Fortunately, I had uploaded virtually my entire issue to a server just 20 minutes before the crash. At that point, I went into a local book publisher's office that kindly let me use their equipment to finish another deadline.Finally, I'm ramping up on the G5. For a few weeks, I've played around on it, and this week, I'm getting more comfortable with it. And it's awesome. I've always been in editing/editorial management, so I'm not a desktop-publishing whiz, but I'm okay, and Mac makes it doable. Every designer I know swears by Macs. PCs are fine for my writing, but for design/production duties, it's back to the Mac. Now, though, I'm "up to speed" when it comes to backup: "Shadow" hard drives for both my PC and Mac.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 For Rolling Stone mag's 1,000th-issue cover, they had a designer (using a Mac) create a neat image featuring all the artists who have appeared on RS covers pictured "on stage," together. Sort of the magazine's "Sgt. Pepper," in a way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlene Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Eric, I can't begin to imagine the sense of POWER you must feel when working with this software! WOW! It's a whole new world! You must be having fun!!! --Darlene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 The new Apple store in Manhattan is completely underground but features a glass cube with a floating Apple logo above-ground as its entryway. I'll have to go see this for myself. The store opens tonight and will stay open 24/7. Bernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeverForget Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 That's beyond QUITE cool! Isn't that actually the front of world-famous FAO Schwartz toy store, across 5th Ave from the former Plaza Hotel!?!?! (from the FAO Schwartz website: 'And the store's guiding principle has not changed since 1862: to provide the world's children with the world's most extraordinary toys')So, carrying on that location's legacy of delighting kids of all ages for years,.... now with this new glinting candybox, Apple gets to entice folks to use/buy all the high-tech 'gadgets & toys' that we all squeal about and rely on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Carmen Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Wow! That really is awesome, Bernie! Mr Jobs doesn't often disappoint, does he? ec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Why perfectionists are winners. From The Wall Street Journal:"Steve Jobs was involved in many of the details of the massive retail store. Mr. Jobs admitted that at one point he ordered workers to replace the metal bolts holding together the glass panels that make up the cube over the company's Fifth Avenue store. 'We spent a lot of time designing the store, and it deserves to be built perfectly,' Mr. Jobs said."Bernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Mississippi Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 My first computer, way back when, was a Mac and I keep thinking that I might have to "upgrade" back to them... but then I find a great $ale somewhere and... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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