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Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 12:38 am
by 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
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 12:44 am
by deadly_habit
wirez wrote: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
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 1:53 am
by collige
wirez wrote:samurai wrote: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.
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 2:03 am
by wayoftheworld
are there any good dvd burning programs you guys use? preferably free and open source!
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 2:07 am
by collige
wayoftheworld wrote: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.
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 5:28 am
by 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.
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 8:34 am
by 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.
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 10:28 am
by lazermouse
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 11:32 am
by logic pro
Moxxiedubstep wrote: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:)
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 11:57 am
by deadly_habit
logic pro wrote:Moxxiedubstep wrote: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)
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 12:55 pm
by collige
I would advise skipping both of those and just get VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 1:36 pm
by Dub_Fiend
Have done this, screw using iTunes for anything.
Also fellas, I HAVE A DAW. Jeez, read the thread
Dub Fiend
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 1:42 pm
by lazermouse
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.
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 1:45 pm
by symmetricalsounds
have you reported the bugs?
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 2:26 pm
by lazermouse
symmetricalsounds wrote:have you reported the bugs?
Yes.
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 2:38 pm
by symmetricalsounds
cool, it'll probably get sorted then.
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 2:54 pm
by Mad_EP
Good call on Burn - didn't know about it, but it looks great.
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 3:49 pm
by samkablaam
switch - audio convertor
scummvm - get to play monkey island on mac
onyx - cleans up your files for you
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 3:58 pm
by setspeed
deadly habit wrote:logic pro wrote:Moxxiedubstep wrote: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
Re: Just bought a Mac - Useful Software?
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 5:17 pm
by wirez
Mad EP wrote: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