On Mon, 1 May 2000 10:43:58 -0500, irwin.shur@... wrote: >FWIW, I just went through the Mac/PC decision. Although I had never used a >Mac before, I ended up getting a G4 400 with 192 MB RAM, second HD for >audio, LAMP, Stealth port (for my Opcode 64XTC, formerly used with a PC), >Sonorus StudI/O (connected to Mackie d8b). > >After some initial hell that turned out to be a bad pair of Sonorus cards >(plus waiting for the Logic manuals to arrive), once a new card was put in, >everything has worked just fine--even the infamous OMS stuff and the >equally infamous iMate ADB dongle. > >During the time when I was troubleshooting the system (due to the bad >Sonorus card), I quickly learned a bunch about how the Mac works, and I >really didn't find it that bad. And I am not in a computer-related jojb, >although I'm a heavy PC user at work. I also didn't find the learning >curve to do most of the (admittedly basic) things I wanted to do with Logic >that bad, once I had the manual. This is true even though I was making a >big leap from Cakewalk 3.01 and ADATs directly to digital audio. > >My only issue is that now that everything seems to be running fine, I'm >afraid to update my Mac OS from 9.0.2 to 9.0.4, or to update Logic from >4.1.5 to 4.2.2. Just out of curiosity, why did you choose the Mac, given that you had no previous experience with it? Did you get information from somewhere to indicate that Logic Audio would run more reliably with the Mac? Andy Voelkel 310 399 2289 thedroid@...