EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 02:43 AM 9/07/02 +0000, you wrote:
>--- In exs-users@y..., "sidefxuk" <emoticon@b...> wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html
>> 
>> Thank God I use a Mac!
>
>Yeah, well, if Apple goes under a year from now, maybe the emagic 
>guys can port the thing to a straight unix platform that can run on 
>either mac or Win-ish hardware. that way, if anything happens to 
>Apple, we don't lose logic too.

This is my concern also -- one proprietory platform --  it is a retreat.
All the big players have moved in the other direction -- away from
proprietory and towards more open systems and cross-platform development.

>Hell, license a version of unix, customise it, merge logic into it, 
>and turn logic into a full-blown self-standing operating system with 
>all the unneccessary stuff stripped out. That way they don't have to 
>complain about Mac or Windows quirks, they have a completely free 
>hand.

I wish the music companies had banded together --perhaps with some
multimedia interests -- and bought Be a couple of years back. Palm has what
is left of it and they got it for peanuts. Perhaps
Macromedia/Emagic/Steinberg etc were scared that Apple/Microsoft would have
turned on them. Perhaps the notion of competitors working together is just
not workable. What a system it could have been if the content creating
companies owned the whole box and dice --  multimedia workstations on state
of the art OS and cheap powerful hardware.

>I mean, you don't really need to be able to run your email program on 
>the same machine as your sequencer, at the same time, do you?

Well - on a Unix based system something like that would be no problem anyway.

Regards,
Murray