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solve et coagula
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Hello.
i just picked up a second hand g3 400 mhz powerbook (one of the black ones). i mainly got it for supercollider, but am on the hunt for any good resources. any suggestions, up until now I have been a pc boy, but it was so cheap, i had to go for it. |
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Yard goes all early rave.
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there was a copy of logic 4.8.1 that was quite nice for the ol mac computers...i still use it today. live should run on there as well....
all the old max/msp patches should run on that too. how much did you pick it up for? |
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solve et coagula
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200 uk pounds. which i think is reasonable for a laptop. |
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solve et coagula
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any links for good shareware / freeware resources?
i am a bit new to all this mac stuff. |
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painting into a corner
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you can get an protools free off the digidesign site, it's version 3.4 if my memory serves me. metasynth is very worth a look as it's a great app that is mac only, though not free.
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cristianvogel.neverengine.org
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thats a great machine... the black ones were built like tanks
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26th June 2004
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Take the Ride !
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Nice one mate !!
Is it running OS 9 ??? |
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26th June 2004
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Take the Ride !
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These are the programs I ever wanted to use... they run under OS9
http://www.soundhack.com/freeware.php -> Soundhack http://www.akirarabelais.com/software/software.html -> Akira Rabelais Argeïphontes Lyre Taken from http://www.bitsteam.de homepage of Stephan Mathieu |
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26th June 2004
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Damn, I bought mine for 1200 in 2000. Before the titaniums came out. They are great. The batteries are dead in mine now the CD player is broken. But I love it. Lots of good affordable macs available now.
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solve et coagula
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Yeah, I have always wanted one, and the prices of them are so fooking good at the moment. the one I got off ebay is in excellent condition, with original box and everything. |
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solve et coagula
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yeah os 9.2 dont think I will bother with OSX as i think it would probably be slow on the old beast. cheers for the links! |
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29th June 2004
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I am using osx on a pb 400. The gui is a bit choppy, but the apps don't run any slower. You don't really loose cpu. Especially with things like supercollider.
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solve et coagula
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ah cheers for that, i might bung it on then. |
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i use mine with both X & 9 just make a partition of the harddrive when you install the system and then you coud just use the "startup disk" to stat it up from whatever system you wanna run. allthough i reckon that 9.2 is the best for doing music on the older macs since X is a bit slow for that.
i run logic 4.8 on an exact same machine as you do and i reckon it's going quite allright, allthough i would love one of thoose new titanium 1+ ghz laptops. maybe when i get rich and famous... |
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Get the max runtime from cycling74.com and the twerk max apps from here all free
 He's posted a new sequencer thing that I've not tried yet and a new editable version of burnt toast. |
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yenorom, They look cool.. can't wait to get my mac now...
Any other patch makers you recommend checking out? There's so many around... |
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Loads of people put externals up, I've not seen many full apps that are as good as twerks stuff. Robert Henke had a sequencer on his monolake page. I'm not sure if its still there though.
I wish I could get a shot of the Ae/Devine patches |
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If anyone has any explainable ideas for sequencer apps they'd like to see I'd be up for having a go at building it in max.
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30th June 2004
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Burnt out
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you should actually be able to get the 5.3.2 pro tools demo. that was the last one they made for os9.x. I am running 6.4 on my mac on os x. I think they still have the older demos up but maybe not anymore. |
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anyway...I have the freeware version around for os9...write me,,
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