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I have just bought a macbook and the pc seems to be collecting dust now. Does anyone work between the two? Whats your work flow method?

I was thinking of trying to turn the pc into a hackintosh. As i now have Logic for my macbook and really like it. But im not sure my sound card would work or how stable the os would be
any suggestions would be great
thanks

I had both a Dell for my studio comp running cubase, and then kept my Powerbook also, as kinda my Ableton Live freakout/Nord Modular G2 editor. It made the work flow rather handy when dealing with the G2, or just running assorted bits out of Live using good ole Operator.

i use both

dell dual core for main studio and macbook
do most of my wokr on the macbook, but do transfer sets to the pc for certain plug ins really
then back to mac and vice verse

very handy and nice to work in a enviroment with different plug ins

use a gigabit network
send audio with wormhole2
file share for copying files across...
osc for midi data transfer
bidule. rock.

please dont make shit music. thanks.

osx sucks ass they fucked it up totally since panther...
all that gay graphics stuff - who cares about widgets...
spotlight should be on why leopard is slower...
they are adding more and more bullshit and its getinng slower and slower
plus the plugin scene on osx is pretty gay n all...

riiight

ignore this cunt

he just turned it inot another windows v mac

nobber. you know its true.
why would i want to do what youre saying if i use both....
are you fucking stupid or what.
oh. sorry. you are. yes.

oh go and make music with fruity fucking loops and vista you sad cunt.

you mean ableton logic and protools
on a macbook and G5

trash wrote:nobber. you know its true.
why would i want to do what youre saying if i use both....
are you fucking stupid or what.
oh. sorry. you are. yes.

oh go and make music with fruity fucking loops and vista you sad cunt.

chill out man!
thats one big chip on your shoulder you got there

I have a powerbook G4 & a big old Sager PC uber-notebook. That thing can hold 2 internal hard drives! Also has a full size firewire 400 port, which is rare in a PC notebook. I bought it from a buddy of mine who bought it for music production.

I haven't used the PC in a long time. I need to get some virus protection software, as I have read that an unprotected PC going online is taken over in almost no time at all. But since I don't use it much, I don't make getting the virus software a priority. If I need to use the PC I'll get it set up right.

I got really tired of dealing with the peculiarities involved in using the same external hard drives on both platforms. I like things really sheer.

Another thing I tried was using two accounts on my powerbook: one exclusively for music, & the other for everything else. Again, too much pain for too little gain.

I'll probably end up selling the PC one of these days. Maybe not ~This is how it's been for years!

i run live7 on a mac, and live6 on an older pc, as an instrument/efx host, using two soundcards. on the pc, the most cpu intensive preset on massive will get about 4 voices before my cpu chokes, on my soundcard's lowest setting, which is plenty enough, my patches don't come close to touching that preset in terms of cpu usage. this leaves a bit of room for live effects and such, i view the pc as basically a large plug-in. direct monitoring on the main computer is essential for doing this in real time (even with a large buffer on the main computer!).

if i had another computer, i would use logic's instruments in this same manner.

Bagle wrote:you mean ableton logic and protools
on a macbook and G5

no didnt mean that = i meant what i said cunt
and yes = massive chip for stupid cunts...

i sometimes use my laptop pc as effect, with NI Reaktor Standalone or similar, and Traktor or Live in the mac.

here trash
did your mother not pay you enough attention when you were younger?
did she hit you? or touch you..

its ok to be angry at me.. i understand its not your fault for not being able to take your head out of your cunt

got a sandy man-gina?

I use PC at home (Live 7 Suite, Cubase SX3 and occasionally Reason 2.5) and we just changed the G5 powermacs for Mac Pros at work, and updated Logic Pro 7 to Logic Studio 8 and we also have Cubase 4 (updated from SX3 on the G5 as SX3 doesn't run on Intel Macs properly) and Pro Tools LE 7.3. (but no Live )

I will probably update to Mac at home but will hold off until a) Mac pro towers come down in price a bit or they release a model sub $1800 dollars or b) they release a quad core Imac with good specs similar to the lower end Mac Pro. So I estimate about 12-18 months.

I use both:

Macbook for music/internet/homework/etc
PC for games