[Ti] sound applications

[Erik Gaderlund]

At 19:38 -0500 12/11/02, Neil Cadsawan wrote:
>Whoops, I accidentally sent this to the x4u list instead of this 
>one.  So, sorry for the cross posting.
>
>I don't know much about sound and music applications on the Mac, but 
>one of the arguments from this thread is that musicians would be 
>left behind if Apple moves to an OSX only boot up for its computers. 
>My question is, why aren't these companies porting their software 
>over to OSX?  Is it because OSX isn't robust enough for them? Is it 
>because they don't want to? I'm genuinely interested in what's 
>holding back these companies from offering OSX compatible software. 
>And even other software vendors for applications other than 
>sound/music.  Even though we all know Quark hasn't yet released an 
>OSX version yet, they're going to. Why aren't/haven't others?
>
  Not sure, but, much was with how OS X handled audio, and MIDI which 
are rather crucial to someone working with audio stuff.  Most of the 
smaller 2 track stuff is ported (Deck, Spark, etc.), and MOTU is 
working on Digital Performer--I think they have drivers for their 
MIDI devices now, OS X version of Logic is out, and presumably Cubase 
is working on it's own stuff.  Other cool stuff is now on OS X, like 
Reason, but, I've been lead to believe that the audio programming 
tools have been some of the last to come out from Apple though their 
stats have always been highly touted (very low latency, MIDI being 
done by the OMS/Opticode programmer, etc.)

erik g

waiting for Rebirth RB-338, and WaveBurner Pro for OS X.