Comments on: What OS Do You Use to Make Music?

By: Jagja

Jagja — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:10:26 +0000

I use a PC from my first days of cyber life but because i begin to learn Max Msp Jitter, I think very soon i will leave pc for a mac.
Max Msp was made for mac and i think it was just adapted for pc. A lot of external are written for mac and apple max community is bigger than pc max community.

I still prefer pc for surfing on net. I work on net and pc make my life easier.

I hope i will buy very soon a mac book pro and i will use both xp/os

By: Ericdano

Ericdano — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:54:24 +0000

Mac OS X running Digital Performer, Logic Studio, and some great M-Audio gear I won in an SOS competition (Project Mix I/O, Protools M-Powered).

Awesome stuff. Now I just need a new MacPro and I’ll be set!

By: _qu.one_

_qu.one_ — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:39:16 +0000

@Kris: 10.5 is Leopard…

Mac user. Currently 10.4.11 on my dualG5, 10.5.1 on my Macbook Pro.

By: gbsr

gbsr — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:14:51 +0000

windows for the very fact that i cant afford a mac and that ableton live cant be run on linux -.-

when its out in beta, im switching to ReactOS until i can afford a mac. or two.

By: William G

William G — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:32:40 +0000

I use Windows XP for everything.

I too was (am?) a BeOS fan. I eagerly await the release of the open source BeOS successor Haiku:

http://haiku-os.org/

By: llamastorm

llamastorm — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:29:03 +0000

I’m entirely a Mac user at home, though am a Linux enthusiast and developer. I’d use a Linux box full time if I weren’t wired to Ableton and Adobe Lightroom (for camera editing). Urg, the curses of shiny commercial software.

As I’m starting to move to more hardware based stuff (Moog!) — as Linux audio apps improve I could see myself switching at some point, provided things like audio interface drivers are well supported. But honestly I really don’t want to fight that to get it all working.

The Linux realtime kernel stuff has a lot of potential and should be making some waves shortly in audio space though.

In other news, I wish folks would stop saying “PC” for Windows boxes. PCs get a choice as to what they want to run :)

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:00:19 +0000

I would definately agree with samu on a lot depending on hardware in a windows system. I have hand built every PC I have every owned, and very rarely ever see any problems, even when running my usual setup (Cubase 3SX, Live rewired into Cubase, two instances of Kontakt 2 full of samples, and about 6-8 soft synths simultanously on a dual core AMD).

However I have noticed many, many issues with windows on my friends computers which are also used soley for audio production.

Ben

By: samu

samu — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:57:49 +0000

I’m hesitant to mention this, but I’ve noticed no substantial difference in reliability between XP and OSX. A lot depends on the hardware with Windows, though, of course.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:23:48 +0000

Mac OS and nothing else since 1995 for audio…wait a minute… for everything else too.

Expensive? yes.
Reliable? sure! and only this matters to me.

By: ponk

ponk — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:55:06 +0000

Now that I read the comments, I see this was redundant, and also would like to apologize for the rude tone of my last post, I actually like this site. I’m still right though;)
But for future polls, don’t be afraid to ask more/specific things, only that can result in something interesting. I never knew about the Analog Box for example.