Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?

[wirez]

Oh shit! I almost forgot the program 'Burn'. That little piece of gem is handy as fuck!

@ Deadly, Lmfao. What a fucking tnuc though! He could have used the money he spent on that to feed dying Africans or some shit, I'm ashamed of this shit, humans should be more supportive of one another

[deadly_habit]

Oh shit! I almost forgot the program 'Burn'. That little piece of gem is handy as fuck!

@ Deadly, Lmfao. What a fucking tnuc though! He could have used the money he spent on that to feed dying Africans or some shit, I'm ashamed of this shit, humans should be more supportive of one another

it was a demo sent to him by apple and prolly why i love his comedy. he has no shame and is a total asshole

[collige]

since macheads will come to this thread. is it worth lumping out the extra cash for the macbook pro? i know you get the fancy keyboard, aluminium shell and firewire port but apart from that is it just the same as the regular macbook? i heard something about macbook pros having a better headphone socket. is that true?

I don't own a macbook but I know that when I do buy one I will definitely be going for the macbook pro only because of the firewire issue. I actually think it's a bit out of order of apple not to supply these in the normal macbooks though, don't see why they can't.

Are macbook pro's not more powerful btw? Surely you don't pay extra just because of those things you mentioned? (Can't be bothered to trapes all the way through the apple store )

They are considerably more powerful, mostly in the graphics card.

[wayoftheworld]

are there any good dvd burning programs you guys use? preferably free and open source!

[collige]

are there any good dvd burning programs you guys use? preferably free and open source!

iDVD comes installed. You can also right-click on something and just hit "burn [folder name]" to disk, but I'm not sure if it works with DVDs.

[Moxxiedubstep]

I cant stand Mac's ,even though I have a Powerbook G4. But on topic, Id say get Cubase. Logic 8 or 9 is good too but pricey and really not as user friendly as Cubase. The automation and sidechaining in Cubase is straight forward in comparison to the ole "Bus,Route and Sends" ordeal. But besides those DAW's. The rest are garbage. With an exception to Renoise.

Nope, Im def' not a Ableton fan.

[kinggraham]

I quite like this - http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/vfx.html combined with Soundflower, just in case you miss any of your old Windows VSTs.

[lazermouse]

Video plugins:
Perian plugin for Quicktime player http://perian.org/#detail (.flv, divx etc.)
Flip4Mac plugin for wmv files http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... nents.mspx

Maintenance:
Onyx http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/s ... /onyx.html

Notifications:
Growl http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/s ... growl.html

...and of course Stuffit Expander http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/s ... ander.html

[logic pro]

I cant stand Mac's ,even though I have a Powerbook G4. But on topic, Id say get Cubase. Logic 8 or 9 is good too but pricey and really not as user friendly as Cubase. The automation and sidechaining in Cubase is straight forward in comparison to the ole "Bus,Route and Sends" ordeal. But besides those DAW's. The rest are garbage. With an exception to Renoise.

Nope, Im def' not a Ableton fan.

no,no,no and no....logic is chepaer than cubase....(and better:)

[deadly_habit]

I cant stand Mac's ,even though I have a Powerbook G4. But on topic, Id say get Cubase. Logic 8 or 9 is good too but pricey and really not as user friendly as Cubase. The automation and sidechaining in Cubase is straight forward in comparison to the ole "Bus,Route and Sends" ordeal. But besides those DAW's. The rest are garbage. With an exception to Renoise.

Nope, Im def' not a Ableton fan.

no,no,no and no....logic is chepaer than cubase....(and better:)

they cost the same (and that's your opinion man)

[collige]

Video plugins:
Perian plugin for Quicktime player http://perian.org/#detail (.flv, divx etc.)
Flip4Mac plugin for wmv files http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... nents.mspx

I would advise skipping both of those and just get VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[Dub_Fiend]

Video plugins:
Perian plugin for Quicktime player http://perian.org/#detail (.flv, divx etc.)
Flip4Mac plugin for wmv files http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... nents.mspx

I would advise skipping both of those and just get VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Have done this, screw using iTunes for anything.

Also fellas, I HAVE A DAW. Jeez, read the thread


Dub Fiend

[lazermouse]

I would advise skipping both of those and just get VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Yeah, you can always do that. My G5 (and my wife's Intel-based MacBook) don't like VLC. All versions of VLC have crashed frequently.

[symmetricalsounds]

have you reported the bugs?

[lazermouse]

have you reported the bugs?

Yes.

[symmetricalsounds]

cool, it'll probably get sorted then.

[Mad_EP]

Good call on Burn - didn't know about it, but it looks great.

[samkablaam]

switch - audio convertor

scummvm - get to play monkey island on mac

onyx - cleans up your files for you

[setspeed]

I cant stand Mac's ,even though I have a Powerbook G4. But on topic, Id say get Cubase. Logic 8 or 9 is good too but pricey and really not as user friendly as Cubase. The automation and sidechaining in Cubase is straight forward in comparison to the ole "Bus,Route and Sends" ordeal. But besides those DAW's. The rest are garbage. With an exception to Renoise.

Nope, Im def' not a Ableton fan.

no,no,no and no....logic is chepaer than cubase....(and better:)

they cost the same (and that's your opinion man)

not in the UK, it's about 110GBP difference (or about 160USD)...

http://www.dv247.com/computer-music-sof ... o-9--66677
http://www.dv247.com/computer-music-sof ... daw--61810

[wirez]

Good call on Burn - didn't know about it, but it looks great.

it's one of those simple bish-bash-bosh programs that does everything it needs to in the most user friendly way possible!

And to people who asked earlier - Burn does DVD's, in movie format as well as data