Well kinda close but Absynth is a poor substitute for Alchemy having only 3 total samples VS full sfz sample sets that you can derive from Kontakt. Just recently bought Falcon, now that's a substitute...

 

The point isn't substituting one thing for something else. It's expanding on what you know with what you have on hand, instead of sitting in some forlorn state for something that may or may not happen.
That being said, I've heard and seen some good things about Falcon. Between Kontakt and Reaktor, I think I have enough on my plate. Falcon reminds me a little of Omnisphere and the funny thing is I've been routing channels out of Omni into Reaktor for granulation and other effects for a while now.
I could never replace the instruments I've spent time learning, even when the new version comes along. I'll upgrade but I usually find myself going back because there's always a special place for them. Ask Battery the Third. It'll testify.

 

Who said anything about a joke?

 

One time we bent a piece of metal used to test flatness. Confused people for a while. Pretty funny if you saw it.

 

This one wins the internet

Poor kid. He doesnt even question it, just grabs the hammer and goes gung ho. Pretty damn accurate with that hammer too

 

in the 90s with a Mac Quadra and then on G3 and then on modern Macbooks.
i never owned them, they were used by friends in studios.

i could do everything on a mac if i want, but it would be never my first choice, too cumbersome, too Hello Kitty interface for my tastes, i'm a developer, can't stand all that shit.

 

actually it's a relic of the 80s and the first Macintosh.
if you like i can make an interface without even a mouse button, providing you compensate using every possible combination of ctrl/alt/shift/whatever ...

because that's the way they force you to play with only one mouse button, no way out, if you remove the right mouse button the user will need something else to get the same features ... like ctrl + alt + mouse click ... photoshop's shortcuts are a living example of this.

so obviously it's nothing smart nor design genius, it's just a design choice but it won't save you any time because to do anything serious you will need to use tons of shortcuts instead of right click like on windows or unix.

a 2 or 3 buttons mouse is the winning choice from ANY perspective.

and buttons apart, what about the wheel ? i can't even work without a mouse wheel !

 

okay but just remember that apple will see you as a "power user" for using a "normal mouse", that's how low they consider their customers.

 

Well... Theres the 200gb Zimmer Piano

 

No one's "forcing" people to do anything. If you want a multi-button mouse for your computer, *buy* a multi-button mouse. (Note, these don't tend to come with PC's either, you just get a generic cheap mouse for the most part).

This has nothing to do with Macs, PCs or whatever, it's about creating an environment and getting tools that work for you.

Personally, I've disliked basically all Apple mice, and the mouse I've been using for years with my Mac has 7 buttons, a scroll wheel, and tracks on glass, and I love it.

Even today's Apple current consumer mice have left and right clicks, and a track/scroll/gesture surface on the top, so again, if you think that Macs today *still* have the 1 button mouse of the 80s or 90s, then you are hopelessly out of touch with the world.

 

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um, yeah, last I looked, my macs had either kensington track balls with multiple mappings and scroll wheels, or multitouch pads on laptops. etc.. and I rightclick all day at the rodeo.... and most if not all software I use implements it (I only say "most" because I can't think of anywhere I would want it where it ISN'T actually...)..

So again, I know you are happy with your pc, but I can't understand the vitriol for anyone using or even the idea of using osx. Not saying apple doesn't have it's heap load of problems, like lots of other companies etc.. I'm no fanboi, to me it's a tool I use.. big whoop... I don't care that much... just wondering why you do?

as you well know i'm sure,... most software is available on both platforms with a few exceptions (Logic, FL, etc..) ....at least in my experience, and what I and most people I know use...,... I see people flipping back and forth between windows versions and osx versions all the time.., and there really isn't that big of a difference...

 

case closed.

 

because it's a matter of concept and principle.
apple is teaching wrong since decades, and by domino effect it affects the whole computing industry and especially the mobile industry.

sooner or later you reach the point where you can't simplify things one more time, there's a limit in what you can make simple and what needs to be done the way it is.
the right click increases productivity in any possible scenario and this is a fact, and same goes for function keys, tree-based (see Win XP) start menus, Finder (see MacOS 9), etc

all things that now the fools in power want to remove because of the modern mantra "less is more".
no, less is just less, especially for us power users.

you should not downplay these "little things" guys, it because nobody complain that the whole IT industry went down the drain.
OSX makes sense just as the modern revamp of Xerox Alto and NextStep, while Windows is forever stuck as the failed child of OS/2.
this is the ugly reality but it's getting worse, not better, just look at the major Daws and the trend is obvious as music user are treated as guinea pigs.

 

ok, I can respect your vitriol on a matter of principle rather then just the typical os war rant... and I respect your right to say it absolutely... but I just wanna make sure you know that right click and other control gestures ARE in fact HEAVILY implemented in new OSX's, to the point a LOT of long time OSX users at first have to turn them OFF because they are not used to them, and gestural things on a track pad etc will accidentally lead to unintended actions etc... ...

Interestingly enough, IBM is converting to all OSX, because it has been determined cheaper to use, with more security and less tech support for their employees etc...

http://www.computerworld.com/articl...-are-even-cheaper-to-run-than-it-thought.html

If you had told me that 20-25 years ago I would have thought it was indeed a dystopian bizarro land future...

... again, I myself am angry at these ridiculous almost "forced" updates every year from Apple. Bugs the crap out of me.. and I am not a flag waver for them, just use them a lot in studios... but I don't know why the idea that they don't implement "right click" and everything else still prevails, while they obviously DO.

E.G.: Given Ableton or Protools or Kontakt or anything like that, in what way is using it on a PC different then OSX all other things being equal for the sense of debate?

 

IBM might be a rare exception to the rule, they're probably running their own unix apps recompiled for BSD/OSX ?
by the way, wasnt IBM pushing linux on desktop since at least 15 years ? what happened ?

yes, right click is supported in most of the OS and apps but then again all the MacBooks have only a touchpad and no mouse button, so ...

look, i'm running MacOS Sierra on VMware on my windows pc, i like it but as a power user there's nothing to be impressed, only basic users will pick it up because it's more stylish and sexy but they're the kind of users who see computers as a fashion accessory and not a tool of the trade.

musicians sticking to apple for life ? yeah, plenty of them, and all with the common pattern of being near-illiterate regarding computing in general, that's why they love macs but they soon realize it's not so easy as it seems to get things done, there's been a hammering anti-microsoft propaganda in the last 20 years when in fact product like Win NT4 or Win 2000 were already solid enough and used worldiwde in every possible field.

sure, as you said there's no big difference in running cubase or logic or other music apps on Macs but the same is true for running them on windows with the added bonus or performance and lower price and higher compatibility with common hardware, and finally there's a lot more cracked warez running on windows, so up to you ...

 

Even the new powershell has nothing on the basic bash shell and as much of a clusterfk homebrew it still a package manager that will actually get things running.

I just deleted 4 paragraphs of snark and sarcasm and am going to end it here.

Use what you want bro nobody cares, but stop generalizing and stop talking as if you are standing in front of church full of mouth breathing inbred neck beards.

 

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