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Geek Culture / Any plans to make DBPro work with Macs?

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 6th Nov 2006 23:33
I have been thinking of getting a Mac, mostly for my music development, all the professionals I talk to tell me it's the best you can get. If I do get one, I don't want to not have DBPro. I think it would be a wise move business-wise to make it compatible, also, it would make my happy.

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Posted: 6th Nov 2006 23:35 Edited at: 6th Nov 2006 23:36
Im in the exact same situation, acually I already ordered my Mac and was thinking of running windows with it to run darkbasic, but having darkbasic compatible with Mac would certainly be useful.

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Posted: 6th Nov 2006 23:51
I highly, highly, extremely highly doubt it. DBP uses the DirectX API to handle the rendering, and since there is no DX for Mac's OSX, a lot would need to be rewritten. Because the Mac market is so small, I don't foresee this happening.

Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 6th Nov 2006 23:53
You can always use Bootcamp and dual boot the Mac (if its Intel) or, (again intel only) use Parallels. You get about 66-75% perferormace of raw mac but you're running Windows in a Window (not just Windows, you could put Linux or anything else in there).

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 6th Nov 2006 23:56
That sounds a little complex for me..

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Posted: 7th Nov 2006 00:17
Use Bootcamp, there are no plans for an OSX version of DB at all I am afraid.

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indi
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Posted: 7th Nov 2006 02:15
boot camp is surprisingly easy.
Darkbasic will only run on newer intel based macs with windows xp on a partition.

I have one of the last PPC macs so i will have to change the machine from my renstmart plan or buy a dedicated machine intel based or amd to run dark basic.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Saikoro
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Posted: 7th Nov 2006 02:52
Quote: "I have been thinking of getting a Mac, mostly for my music development, all the professionals I talk to tell me it's the best you can get."

It's not the best you can get. In fact, I would recommend Windows over a Mac for music development because you can upgrade your hardware, and most people use Windows. If, however, you are going to be trading files back and forth between people, and they mostly use Macs, then for sure get a Mac, but if you're off solo right now, Windows would definitely be better


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Posted: 7th Nov 2006 03:57 Edited at: 7th Nov 2006 04:11
In my career, I havent seen many pcs in the professional studios i have had the opportunity to work in, most of them still have old quicksilvers with protools or logic audio.
Newer places have g5s with a similar setup. cubase is still around but i hardly see it today.

i would suggest if you want a professional audio rig to choose the OS X platform, nowadays however the hardware is ambiguous with intel based macs.

I will be investing in logic pro very soon, its native to my other applications in regards to video and composition, a blessing for timing dolby and music to your music and video score.

[href]http://www.apple.com/au/logic/[href]
http://www.apple.com/logicpro/musicstudio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Pro

lets see who uses logic.

The Chemical Brothers
Deep Dish
Christina Aguilera
Pet Shop Boys
Depeche Mode
Vince Clarke from Erasure
Aaron Walton
'N Sync
Linkin Park
Roger Waters
Nine Inch Nails
Peter Gabriel
John McLaughlin
Gwen Stefani.

not to shabby there...

lets take it a step further


you would want to couple it with an apogee pci x card
http://www.apogeedigital.com/

this link shows how many musicians have followed the same path
http://www.apogeedigital.com/users/

here is a success story regarding a high end studio in an educational sense
http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/sacramento/

if you wanted to go protools then i would also get an mbox2, looks like a newer v2 is out as well.
http://www.digidesign.com/

there is one great program on the pc called soundforge, akin to photoshop for sound.
however most applications above have all the features soundforge does, a similar program called peak on the mac side covers it as well.

As for windows there's too many success stories from indie developers to full scale studios not to take notice of logic pro.

I do believe one thing tho, raw talent shines through with any program you use.

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Posted: 7th Nov 2006 04:01
Quote: "I do believe one thing tho, raw talent shines through with any program you use."

Yep.


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 7th Nov 2006 10:54
Quote: "I do believe one thing tho, raw talent shines through with any program you use."


Never have truer word's been typed...

I went to a conference recently (DrupalCon) and out of about 130 people I am pretty sure I only saw 1 laptop running Windows. One guy had an old laptop but he was running linux on it. EVERYONE else had Macs - mostly Mac Book Pro's too... They seemed to be doing well!

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Wiggett
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Posted: 7th Nov 2006 11:43 Edited at: 7th Nov 2006 11:44
dbpro on a mac, HAHAHAHA go back to russia.

(edit: that's a simpsons quote that russia bit.)

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