The sob story: Thursday I finished recording ambient guitars for a movie at my home studio. As I was doing some bounces to make stems at the end of the day I started to get an error # 5 message for my Audiowerk 8 cards. After a lot of stressing (the stems were due today[Saturday]) I reloaded the drivers. The computer acted clunky so instead of bouncing I used the glue tool and thought I'd worry about the few effects I'd used later. I fired up the computer Friday to burn the stems. All the work I did on the movie was gone. The folder was there but NO FILES! Also some other files form other projects were gone. Not all but some. Seperate drive from my program and system drive. I don't get it?!?! It is partly my fault as I didn't back up....... (I know, I know) .....what a dunce. I do have a stem of half the film. I have to work fast though 'cause the mix is Wed. I've been using Logic Platinum on a PC. 1.6 gig, Windows 98 .... hey..... don't laugh I've done records (custom projects). library cds, tv cues, muzak and commercials on that system. It is old and tired though. The question: Is anyone here using an iMac for recording. I mean even the smallest 2 gig Duo core would seem to be a big step up in processing power/ram for me. When Emagic sold to Apple they did give me a Mac lisence ...... license ..... however it's spelled. I'd also have to replace the audio interface and midi interface etc. I think the iMac is all I can afford at this point by the way. Hence the question. Sorry if this is long and I rambled ........... I'm trying now to stress but ............... Buddy

Hi Buddy, An iMac even the smallest one will work fantastic knowing what you are going thru w/your PC, so go ahead and move on Mac right away, you'll be thanksfull....M-Audio is offering some great soundcards and very affordable, midi interfaces are really really inexpensives our days! you can not mess around for scoring for movies! Cheers! On Nov 3, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Buddy Nuanez wrote: > The sob story:

> M-Audio is offering some great soundcards Not to mention the obvious, but iMacs do not have card slots and I don't think he is considering anything other than an iMac. At least that's how it came across to me. As mentioned, there are lots of inexpensive but good audio interfaces out there that will work great with an iMac. However, I doubt you'll ever get the same latency figures with a FireWire or USB device as with PCI cards (if that is what you had in your old PC). Something to think about as you decide what to buy. Personally, I bought a Mac only because Logic was my software of choice. I'd be using Windows if Logic still existed for the PC. All I'm saying is that this is a BIG change and you'll probably have to invest in a lot more than just Logic and an Audio interface. Be ready to spend a lot more than you think you will. My two cents... Kamm