[sdiy] OT ? Favorite Software Synths

[Doug Wellington]

Jason Proctor writes:
> well that's a long story. i've been mainly Mac for almost 20 years
> and in common with a lot of the community i have a great deal of
> affection for the Mac and an equal amount of frustration with Apple.

Sure.  I'm with you there!  Actually, I used to HATE Macs before OS X.
 I'm a system admin type for a living, and there was nothing worse
than managing public-access Macs.  I absolutely love my Macbook
though.  I'm running Winders XP and Linux on it too...

> but i can forgive Apple for marketroid bugs like the Unix thing. the
> fact is that to almost everyone OS X *is* a Unix machine, and the
> subtleties of the situation would be beyond 99% of the target market.

FWIW, I'd suggest that OS X is about as much Unix as Linux is...  ;-)

> the intention of my post was to indicate that the pieces that X has
> in common with FreeBSD and/or Linux are no use for making an audio
> app. the audio and MIDI APIs are totally different. and i didn't even
> mention all the user interface stuff - neither Carbon nor Cocoa will
> work on Linux.

Yep, I'm with you now.  Actually, that user interface stuff is one of
the big reasons I don't do any Linux development any more...

> ps i managed to get to DS2004 and it was mindblowing...

That was the year that work/life was crazy and I barely managed to
show up a half hour or so before the show!  For various reasons, I
missed this year's show completely.  Next year though!!!  I just
bought all of the Stooge Panel silkscreens from Dave Bradley, so I'm
really hoping to finish up my modular before next year's show.  I
should have at least 60 modules ready to play with.  Maybe I'll even
get the CC+ expansion installed in my Chroma before then too.  T8,
Chroma, modular - should be fun!

Doug

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