[MacDV] Re: I Wish I Had Known...

[James Asherman]

On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 12:10  PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> On 4/19/04 10:51 PM, James Asherman at jimash at optonline.net wrote:
>
>> Well the audiio thing bugs me but I have a protools system in the 
>> other
>> room and I can use my media converter but only with FCP ( which is
>> good) , or get a USB thing.
>> Roland has one hell of a USB thing ( reviewed in Guitar Player tested
>> w/ garageband)
>> Does the whole thing audio and midi and mics and everything.
>> Still it is pain . This one also has speach recognition but no mic
>> input. It is odd.
>> Still pretty and quiet with the owc chip in .
>> J
>
> I have an M-Audio 4-in/4-out audio card that I use for recording 
> music, but
> having that extra no-hassle analog input is just nice to have for
> flexibility (even if it's not as good as the M-Audio card) -- like to
> monitor external audio sources in a pinch.  It's just silly that for a 
> few
> revs of the G4 line they left out the analog audio in -- it was there, 
> then
> it was gone, then it was back???  Someone realized they made a mistake 
> when
> they got all these support calls like "I just spent $3,000 on a 
> brand-new
> Apple Power Macintosh G4 and there's no audio input???  There used to 
> be,
> right?  Why'd you take it out?  Did it really save you that much money 
> in
> production costs?  Oh, OS X (10.0) has problems with the analog audio 
> input?
> THAT makes sense...  Cripple the hardware to make the buggy OS happy...
> Wait, I have to spend more money on a third-party audio input device?  
> How
> about you throw that in with the order since I already paid so much 
> for the
> computer?"
>
> (I'm really not *THAT* stressed about the whole analog input thing, it 
> just
> MAKES NO FRIGGIN' SENSE -- it seems like just another one of those 
> senseless
> dictatorial mandates proclaimed by His Steveness)
>
> :-\
>
> - Mark
>
>
>

Wow you complain just like me!.
J