EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

PersingEP@... wrote:
> With the rumors of 3 and 4 ghz Intel/AMD machines....man, Apple has to
play
> some serious catch up!

That's what I seriously hope will happen - if they want to convince people
like me to switch platforms at all one day. And for the sake of Emagic, I
think it *must* happen. I mean, in the end, as soon as there is a
"competing" sequencer on Windows (SX seriously isn't, at least not yet),
more and more people will switch over to PCs, even in professional
environments.
Let's face it, virtual instruments and native effects have become a VERY
serious thing, now there's things that can easily compete with hardware 10
times as expensive, let alone the ease of handling with all the total recall
thing.
Then, I don't know if that is completely true or not (I'm not enough of an
expert), it seems that such 8x Opteron machines that we will see next year
will even run circles around fullblown PT systems, at least when it comes to
sheer performance numbers. And people will eventually start to code true
native high end effects as well, just because they don't have to care much
about CPU usage anymore.
My wild guess would be that quite some "pro" folks will simply buy a PC in
addition and run it as a VSTi or even as a mixing host, in addition to their
Macs. But I'd think that most smaller studios, especially home studios,
would still prefer having everything on a single machine - at least
personally I prefer that. No struggling with double saved files, no problems
with more than one mouse, keyboard, no monitor switching, no routings etc
etc.

> I guess the one bit of silver lining is that once Logic Titanium is fully
> OSX, multi-processor, altivec coded, we should see some serious
performance
> and stability gains, even on the same hardware.

I'd say so too. But do you really think it will even halfway deliver like
the double performance? This is what next years single CPU PCs should bring,
compared to, say, a dual 1GHz Mac.

Really, for me, as a person that - apart from a few minor things - most
likely will never buy a piece of external gear again, it's not only the
ridiculous price I'd have to pay for a Mac, it's also the "absolute"
performance. I just want the fastest machine (well, actually I allways buy
the second fastest things available, saves a LOT of money), yeah, it's that
simple.

Personally I can only hope that Apple is aware of that and therefor will
come up with some *affordable* solutions offering *enough* horsepower -
whatever that means. To me right now it more seems to be as if they were
sitting on some rather high "we are the platform for professional solutions"
horse.

But as usual, only time will tell.

Cheers,
Sascha