max/msp has more objects for mac than for pc,thats the reason mac rocks.
On 4/21/05, egyptian zombie robot <egyptianzombierobot@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 116 lines Chris Hopcroft asks: PC or Mac?
> >> Chris Hopcroft asks: PC or Mac?
> >> RB: Both. Mostly Mac, just for convenience and quality. The build is
> >> better. But it's not as customisable. With a PC, if you're a real geek
> >> you can get ahead of everyone with loads of components. Apple is cased
> >> in concrete, but it is concrete nonetheless and you can rely on that
> >> sometimes.
>
> > And that's just funny. True, too. One of the most concise analyses
> > I've seen of the differences between PC and Mac. PCs offer a lot of
> > freedom, but also a lot of risk, sometimes too much of both. Macs offer
> > a known, familiar reliability, but that can also be stifling.
>
> > It mirrors my own experience with switching. I've lost all the
> > headaches I had from my PC days of worrying about compatibility and
> > security, but I've gained headaches from not being able to run certain
> > software and games.
>
> > *sigh*
>
> As someone who also recently switched, i've not run into this 'wall' yet. I
> mean I got my powerbook for some very specific tasks: video editing in
> iMovie, djing in Traktor, messing with tracks in Ableton Live, and possibily
> doing a spot of web development while on the road. But as I've explored the
> new mac, I've been working on seeing if I couldn't use it to mirror and
> eventually replace my PC workstation.... so far most programs I've been able
> to replace, standard fare like FTP programs and the like.... but even those
> took a while to find. We'll see where this platform ends up in the pantheon
> of my computer use.... it's a little early to say now.
>
> - eric m.
>
> On 4/20/05, Adam Piontek <adam@damek.org> wrote:
> >
> > esa ruoho wrote:
> > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3895806
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > Toni Ahvenainen asks: How do Autechre know when their idea is "finished
> > > music" ready to be published, and when not?
> > > RB: We try and see a track through to its end. Some tracks just end up
> > > getting shelved if we can't agree, and some tracks will stand the test
> > > of time. We'll pull them off the shelf and say, "Yeah that's really
> > > good." But it's unlikely that tracks like that will end up on the album.
> > > Albums tend to be tracks worked on from one day to the very end, even if
> > > it's over a period of a year or two.
> >
> > You know, this really summarizes the changeup in their career for me.
> >
> > I feel like, from Incunabula up to, somewhere between LP5 and Confield,
> > (perhaps including LP5 and perhaps not) - it seems that their tracks are
> > really finished compositions that "stand the test of time". I pull
> > those albums and EPs out and listen and think "Yeah that's really good."
> >
> > Somewhere after that, however, while I can still appreciate the music,
> > it sounds more like experiments they were still working on up until the
> > day the album was released. It's awesome, interesting stuff - even
> > visceral and emotional - but on a very different level. It grows on me,
> > but in a very different way, and when I want to listen to it again it's
> > much less often than their older work and for different reasons.
> >
> > So it definitely feels to me like their earlier stuff are "classic
> > compositions" and their later stuff is "works in progress from the
> > experimental lab of Autechre." And it struck me that they sort of
> > recognize that themselves, that there are some tracks that they "finish"
> > and others they don't, and that the stuff they kept working on is what
> > goes on the albums. I wonder if that's changed in the past 5-6 years or
> > if it's always been that way. In other words, I wonder if it's them or
> > me - if they've changed how they create and release music, or if it's
> > just a threshold in my own psychology - maybe I am just incapable of
> > perceiving music beyond a certain level as being a finished whole, a
> > complete composition. Maybe I'm just tied down by what I'm used to from
> > musical tradition and convention.
> >
> > Interesting to ponder, but pointless unless I can ask them if they used
> > to once upon a time release their "finished" tracks or if even on Amber
> > they were slapping together the album from music they were working on up
> > until the deadline. Until the day I can ask them that, I'm stuck with
> > approaching their later music much differently than I approach their
> > earlier music. Bascially, on a level where I think it's good, but I
> > don't like it nearly as much. And I'll still buy their albums.
> >
> > > Chris Hopcroft asks: PC or Mac?
> > > RB: Both. Mostly Mac, just for convenience and quality. The build is
> > > better. But it's not as customisable. With a PC, if you're a real geek
> > > you can get ahead of everyone with loads of components. Apple is cased
> > > in concrete, but it is concrete nonetheless and you can rely on that
> > > sometimes.
> >
> > And that's just funny. True, too. One of the most concise analyses
> > I've seen of the differences between PC and Mac. PCs offer a lot of
> > freedom, but also a lot of risk, sometimes too much of both. Macs offer
> > a known, familiar reliability, but that can also be stifling.
> >
> > It mirrors my own experience with switching. I've lost all the
> > headaches I had from my PC days of worrying about compatibility and
> > security, but I've gained headaches from not being able to run certain
> > software and games.
> >
> > *sigh*
> >
> > -Adam Piontek, bringing you even more inane ramblings you didn't want.
> >
> >
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