From @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Sun Jan 25 09:46:06 2004 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by gem.win.co.nz (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) id JAA26466 for notator-list; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:46:06 +1300 Received: from smtp5.knology.net (smtp5.knology.net [24.236.126.2]) by gem.win.co.nz (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA26463 for <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@>; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:46:00 +1300 Received: (qmail 20797 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2004 20:25:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO GatewayUser) (24.214.191.242) by smtp5.knology.net with SMTP; 24 Jan 2004 20:25:10 -0000 Message-ID: <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> From: "sherman barnes" <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> To: <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> References: <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> Subject: Re: [NSL] NAMM and Mac????? Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:22:47 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Precedence: bulk Reply-To: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ X-header: --------------------------------------------- X-header: Unsubscribe : @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ X-header: Notator WWW : http://www.notator.org X-header: List problems: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ X-header: --------------------------------------------- [Notator/Creator SL mailing list] just today one of my st's died.....happily had a replacement and notator is back up and working (had even saved my work the night before it died.....however, i now don't have another replacement for when this one dies..... don't want to change formats but w/time it may be ineveitable..... have sonar on my pc but have never used it - don't like the 'look' of it..... never upgraded past 3.0 notator (originally had 1.6) and have never used 'logic' but might be time to look into the future instead of the past....regrettfully sherman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Beaumont" <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> To: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Org" <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [NSL] NAMM and Mac????? > [Notator/Creator SL mailing list] > > On 1/24/04 6:17 AM, "Jamm!n Wheeler" <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> wrote: > > >> One speculation is that Apple is planning to go head to head with Pro Tools! > > > > I think they'd be foolish to write their own Pro Tools. > Hey Jamm!n, > > I don't know about foolish. Whatever turns out, I don't know if Apple can be > accused of directly copying another product. It's an innovative company > looking for market share. Pro Tools...great product, and a leader in it's > field, because of that and lack of any real competition...so far! > > What I see is that, Apple has a bit more resources, in all areas, than > Digidesign. What would be foolish, would be NOT to use those resources to > try to open new markets and also take some existing market share for > themselves. There is a large contingent of Pro toolers that also use > Logic...or for whatever reasons wish there was something more capable than > either. > > > Ardour is coming > > up fast and it's free. It only runs on Linux at the moment but the > > smartest thing Apple ever did was switching MacOS to a unix core (shame > > it's BSD but you can't have everything), so there is definitely a chance > > of adapting things like this instead of having to start again. > > What is Ardour ..and JACK? Do you have some links? > > > On the other hand, due to the cost of Macs I would far rather Linux > > continued to blossom as an audio platform thanks to the likes of JACK > > and Ardour. Of course as a sequencer platform it still doesn't compete > > with the ST :) > > I'm a HUGE fan of the ST. Made a reasonable good living over the past 10 > years...still have 3 working ST's, hardware, software and a library of Start > mags from the 80's. But when we say "doesn't compete with the ST", I hope > you agree that we are being fondly nostalgic, 'cause as endearing as it is, > the only real competition is with the encroaching sands of time :-) > > The technology that produced the ST and Notator has moved...not necessarily > for the better, but nevertheless...on! Change is inevitable and anything > that's not moving will eventually be buried in said sands. > > Blessings! > > Craig > > _______________________________________________________ > | Unsubscribe from the list? send the words: | > | UNSUBSCRIBE NOTATOR to: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________________ | Unsubscribe from the list? send the words: | | UNSUBSCRIBE NOTATOR to: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | -------------------------------------------------------