Playing High Resolution Audio Files Through a Mac?

[deepak]

My correction was correct. It is in fact not the default. Spend some time on gearslutz and you will see that a large majority of the protools guys use windows.

The fact that protools is available for mac in no

way undermines my believeability. I guess I could have been clearer that it was available for both.

Holy overreaction bat man.

ProTools is fail though. Vintage AD converters with no computer involvement please.

edit: in case it doesn't come through, I'm joking. I'm sure ProTools in the right hands is transparent, sadly most modern engineers don't treat it that way.

Edited July 29, 2009 by deepak

[grawk]

not many pros doing that these days

[n_maher]

This discussion sucks.

[feckn_eejit]

ProTools is fail though. Vintage AD converters with no computer involvement please.

one studer a827, one of thems old Trident consoles and a Pacific Microsonics Model Two, a handful of know-how and you'll wipe the floor with any DAW...

[grawk]

until you need to autotune

[deepak]

one studer a827

Pacific Microsonics Model Two

Yes please!

[feckn_eejit]

until you need to autotune

"need" and "autotune" should never exist in the same sentence... unless the sentence is "i need to kill that motherfucking, scum-swilling degenerate of an engineer who created autotune"

but seeing as how the damage is already done, where's my razor blades...? it's down the street not across the river, right?

[feckn_eejit]

Yes please!

...actually a couple of them synced, both with 16-track heads would be even more awesome...

[deepak]

...actually a couple of them synced, both with 16-track heads would be even more awesome...

Maybe add a Grimm AD1 if you were in the mood for DSD

[feckn_eejit]

Maybe add a Grimm AD1 if you were in the mood for DSD

sigh, DSD, how i love thee on paper, but your father short-dicked you from the start... er......can of worms.... uh.....what're we talking about??

oh yeah windows > *

(and monkeys fly out of my butt!)

[Dusty Chalk]

Spend some time on gearslutz and you will see that a large majority of the protools guys use windows.

That's probably because the guys who use Macs are actually working rather than wasting time posting.

And I'm sure by "alternative", Hopstretch meant BeOS.

[feckn_eejit]

That's probably because the guys who use Macs are actually working rather than wasting time posting.

ouchie!

And I'm sure by "alternative", Hopstretch meant BeOS.

i'm guessing NeXTstep

[Hopstretch]

ouchie!i'm guessing NeXTstep

Acorn Arthur.

[Dreadhead]

That's probably because the guys who use Macs are actually working rather than wasting time posting.

All I was doing was correcting misstatement by another user that macs are the standard when they are decidedly not so.

I have spent a lot of time looking through gear lists at various studios around the world and I know what they are using, for example I don't believe that there is any DSD mastering software for mac . It does appear that many of those guys do post to Gearslutz but hey instead let's make snide and again baseless statements. Fun Fun.

You want another big player and one that appears to be entirely PC: Pyramix.

Edited July 29, 2009 by Dreadhead

[Grahame]

Acorn Arthur.

Pah!, Kids today.

[feckn_eejit]

OK, big guns coming out!

btw this thing is all over _The Dreaming_...

[Hopstretch]

btw this thing is all over _The Dreaming_...

Ewase the wace that cwaim the pwace and say we dig faw awe.

[feckn_eejit]

ow dangole devols in uh bawtol an poosh thim frum tha PULL OF THE (kate?) BUSH

edit: WHAT THE FUCK. so just now I hear my iPhone notify me of an e-mail... pick it up, go to Mail, start reading, and "Suspended in Gaffa" comes on... I didn't have any music playing, and haven't listened to this album in ..... oh at least a couple of months...

[The Monkey]

I use a Vic-20 for music, bitches!

[Dusty Chalk]

All I was doing was correcting misstatement by another user that macs are the standard when they are decidedly not so.

I have spent a lot of time looking through gear lists at various studios around the world and I know what they are using, for example I don't believe that there is any DSD mastering software for mac . It does appear that many of those guys do post to Gearslutz but hey instead let's make snide and again baseless statements. Fun Fun.

You want another big player and one that appears to be entirely PC: Pyramix.

Dude, hardly anyone does DSD, that's a niche market, and hardly a good representation of the industry.

And if you think my statement was an over-reaction, then it's because I made the same mistake you did -- I insufficiently qualified my statement. The way I read it, it sounded like you were saying ProTools was exclusively PC, which it isn't. So I stand by, "incorrect". What annoys me is not the anti-Mac reaction, but the fact that you feel that stating something more loudly makes you moar right -- it doesn't, it just makes you sound moar wrong. I'm sure if my opinion of you went down a notch, others' did, too.

[Sherwood]

All I was doing was correcting misstatement by another user that macs are the standard when they are decidedly not so.

I haven't spent much time looking at gear international studios use, but I can tell you that everywhere I've ever recorded or mastered, they've been using Mac and Protools. It's why I bought one.

Of the popular recording programs, only Cakewalk is not Mac compatible that I know of, and Cakewalk is obviously not a pro solution.

[The Monkey]

Bumping an old thread because as usual I'm confused. I want to play a 24/88.1 file from my iMac to the PerfectWave PWD. However, using optic out from the iMac to the PWD does not give me 88.1 as an option. Only 96, which shows up as the sample rate on the DAC. Does that just mean the maximum rate, or is it mucking around somehow? Note that I can output 88.1 using the USB out. So what gives with the spdif?

[The Monkey]

Anyone? Is the above a dumb question?

[grawk]

no idea, sorry

[boomana]

I also have no idea, but seeing the above posts makes me wonder where Chris has been. Haven't seen him around lately.