What you need to think about is what you're comfortable with using, no OS is the best, just what's best for you :). If the additional cost of Apple hardware is worth it to you (for running OSX) then go for it, otherwise there's various vendors that will sell you a Windows 7 laptop with around the s...

Toloache wrote:Oh thanks Phase Ghost, i missed that tread!

Me too, and I've been wondering about this. Thanks!

then you have the advantages of Mac core audio and aggregated devices. Word. Core Audio is fantastic and makes a huge difference, if you're like me and are running a fairly old machine. Horses for courses and all that... as long as you're making music, I suppose it doesn't matter. john clees, I'm c...

not sure about how it would sound (at work so can't check at the moment) but if you don't like the roll-of slopes of EQ8, (if you consider them not steep enough) perhaps you can try this little trick. first you load one EQ8 and put the Q high enough, so that the slope becomes steeper then load anot...

I'm still pretty new to Ableton, so forgive the noob question... but back in my FL days, if I wanted to roll off my master at a certain frequency, it was really easy to load up the built-in Parametric EQ 2 effect and set the Q slope to be super steep, which made it really easy to be super precise ab...

Can you post links to some of the records that you are talking about?

Hi zentex, As someone who has had experience with windows, mac and several Linux distributions I would encourage you to try windows 7. Try it for yourself before being warded off by the misgivings of others. That being said, I have seen previews of windows 8 and it makes me want to puke. Its turnin...

About the closed platform and whatnot - from a purely ideological standpoint, I can't argue with that. Some of Apple's business practices are shady at best, and they may or may not be the most ethical company on the planet. But here's the crux of the issue, at least for me. I'm a systems administrat...