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offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-03-24 15:11 [#01543050]
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can you tell me how much the performance sinks ? in percent
? thanks


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-03-24 15:12 [#01543051]
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why would anyone simulate Windows on a Mac?


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-03-24 15:14 [#01543055]
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anyone
someone


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-03-24 15:14 [#01543057]
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i would want to avoid that kind of questions


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-03-24 15:15 [#01543059]
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too late bro


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-03-24 15:15 [#01543061]
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fruity loops


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-03-24 15:16 [#01543062]
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enough ?


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-03-24 15:18 [#01543068]
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How bought the hundred so other good vsti that run on
pc and not mac


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-03-24 15:19 [#01543072]
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that remark slipped out


 

offline gl0tch from www.gl0tch.com     on 2005-03-24 15:23 [#01543085]
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dude, I wouldnt want to run Fruity on Virtual PC.. That
would be retarded. I'm not sure it would even be worth it
if you were running Fruity through VPC on a Dual 2+ GHz G5
with over 2 GB of ram.

too many latancies going on there to be worth it.


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-03-24 15:24 [#01543089]
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i mean ibooks are so fuckin cute...

i just cannot allow myself to change my software now -
fruityloops is to good - but for the fact that i might
change it in 2 years maybe... who knows - that's why i want
to emulate it...

but how is the performance ?


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-03-24 15:29 [#01543094]
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i think i'll cry


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-03-24 15:30 [#01543095]
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but thanks for telling me that - that was my quetsion


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2005-03-24 18:31 [#01543252]
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for stuff that doesn't require real-time editing, it's not
too bad

but for something like FruityLoops it's totally unusable.

I use it for CoagulaLight (since MetaSynth for Mac OS X is
WAY too fucking expensive and uncrackable at the moment)
:(


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2005-03-24 18:33 [#01543254]
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oh and Virtual PC does seem to be the best x86 emulator for
the Mac

the others are slower and a bit more difficult to use, not
to mention they don't have as many features as Virtual PC.

it's still a shame Microsoft had to go buy Connectix out


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-24 18:44 [#01543264]
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definately.

performance is terrible. real time audio software is a total
no go....you could get away with soundforge possibly. I'm on
a 1.5gig powerbook with 1.5gig RAM running virtual PC 6 with
windows 2000 and even browsing between windows is sluggish.

BTW. you can run older versions of metasynth in OSX classic,
but it's a bit buggy: if that helps. slsk might have it.



 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2005-03-24 18:50 [#01543266]
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i don't have Classic installed on my machine - i haven't
used it for ages, and haven't needed to.

I'm running VPC 7 on a 1.5GHz G4 with 1GB RAM and I have
pretty much every version of Windows running on here.

I've tweaked the hell out of Windows 2000, and Windows XP
Pro and I've got them both running at reasonable speeds.

If you can get hold of a program called XPLite, you can
tweak it even more and get it to run a bit faster.


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-24 18:56 [#01543275]
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i fancy using cubase 5 again to run only midi into my mac
but i think i might just buy some old piece of shit to do
it..it's only midi. i'll keep my peepers peeled that prog
tho. ta=]


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-03-25 01:03 [#01543386]
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is i t true that you can only use original soft on macs ??
!!


 

offline johnl from Dublin (Ireland) on 2005-03-25 01:10 [#01543388]
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Okay...
Performance isn't that bad in Virtual PC. You could probably
use Fruity Loops. But like. That'd be a waste of time, just
like Fruity Loops.
Invest some time in learning a more serious program like
Reason or Digital Performer or Reason or Reason :)
As for "original soft on macs", I presume this is a question
as to whether or not software can be pirated on Macs. It
can be of course.
Hope this helps,
John


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-03-25 02:15 [#01543400]
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I wouldn't suggest reason as a serious alternative to
floops, unless you are making progressive house or techno or
something along those lines. The sound design potential of
fruityloops is exponentially higher than that of reason,
although reason is exponentially more well designed a
program than fruityloops.

I would suggest cubase as an alternative to either programs.
If you insist on getting a mac, which I would advise
against, get cubase running on it. Its not that much of a
leap from fruityloops, but allows you so much more. Although
it doesn't have the fomula controller (which I think should
be in everything).


 


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