Mac OS before OS X crashed a lot and screen redraws were very slow, and you absolutely will lose work and hate yourself… but me, I grew up on it.
These were great instruments/tools when they came out and they do exactly what they did then today, but a five year old laptop and some free software is much better if you want to actually make music. I have to say though, all in all, I think of this as separate and a hobby. If anyone has an old 20 bit 882 or 888 interface they don’t need, I can give it a good home. And I love the black and white System 7 interface. The SampleCell is pretty fun, though, when paired with Turbosynth it’s endless fun. Unfortunately I can’t get the ProTools system to quite work, I think the interface (Avid branded 888) is faulty. Should get a MotU 424 card for it maybe.Įarlier this year I got a Quadra 650 with a Digidesign SampleCell II card and a ProTools Nubus system. The tower is a hand-me-down from my brother who bought it new when it qualified as a super computer, and I’ve used it for various things over the years… I bought the cards a few years ago because it seemed really cool, but after a bit I found out I actually didn’t like the sound at all. Then there’s the G4 tower with 3 Pulsar cards. The Lombard is the last one with SCSI, it sits nicely on top of an old sampler like an E-mu Ultra. I wish I’d explored Reaktor more, coming back now with 15+ more years of synth experience it actually seems pretty great. I bought Reaktor 3 and a (long-since failed) iBook G3 when I turned 18 and got all the money my parents had been saving up for me since I was born… literally spent it all the day after my birthday, haha. I wish I could find my Reaktor 3 dongle to convert the Weedwacker ensemble to Reaktor 4, but it’s gone. You have to bounce a lot but it can make tracks. (oh, I’m also doing LinuxVST for those putting linux on these machines)Ī Powerbook G3 Lombard with OS9 and Reaktor 4 and Ableton Live 3.
Heck, some of them come with built in optical ins and outs so you can run the very best of converters, and then they will perform with as high sonic quality as anything you could want It limits some of the choices I can make (for instance, I don’t think I can do the modern Gatekeeper stuff) but I think it’s important for people to be able to have tools that aren’t expensive, and old Macs can be very not expensive and still work as great DAWs if you have good converters. I’m doing it on purpose, though most people don’t know about this part. So I support old macs now, and if you can run Audio Units on these old macs you ought to be able to use anything I make (so long as the plugin is not too CPU-hungry, which most aren’t).Īirwindows is me. That means, the plugins I make (NEW plugins) support PPC. Older software is fine, but I should point out that I’m an audio software developer and I go to some trouble to support the broadest possible range of old Macs. Made it look like what a raspberry pi looks like today) Loved to take the dust covers off of their unix terminals, (early 90’s astronomy grad students at santa cruz In unix, at a unix terminal in the libraryĬomputer languages came and went every yearīut they were right, unix was the language of the nascent internet Me and laura had to sign up for classes (even art classes) Made music concrete tape loops and put laura’s vocals on it, I took electronic music from gordon mumma, He brought jose montoya to play music in the dining hallĪnd have an art show at the provost house, really moved me
(maybe 'cause it’s good system administration?) Or if you’ve got something going, …don’t,
Needs to be a system administrator, right?ĭon’t upgrade until you know it’s stable, Not everyone who runs a personal computer Understanding more about how the apple cats were thinking… Learning lot’s about linux, and computer culture in general Opened it up and got that (16gb) rockin’, it’s good Just now put linux on ysidro’s old macbookpro 13" from mid 2012Īpple says 8gb is max, but some cats say 2x8gb (16gb) MacBookAir 11" osX 10.7.5 parc, aalto, monolase, grayscale 64 Running osX 10.4.11, protools 7, mBox inputsĮven used it this summer (needs a new pram battery)