RE: [Nolug] Mac OS X to make an appearance at the next meeting.... maybe.

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 12:58, bad-magic-number wrote:
>
>
> >
> > > Better chips under the hood. That, and I need that platform for
> > > OS 9.2.2 for use
> > > with music software I'll be using. Intels perform poorly when
> > > dealing with more
> > > than a few digital channels of audio when mixed.
> >
> > That must be then the audio software used.
> >
> > A friend of mine makes music and not so long time ago he recorder *LIVE*
> > 8-tracks simultaneously with his laptop, 800 Mhz IBM. Not a single
> glitch or
> > dropped frames. (He can use his multiple channel inputs on a go even with
> > the car batteries. Nice little setup.) I believe he was using Nuendo,
> one of
> > many multi-track audio softwares. This same audio software takes AVID
> > standard .omf files in and plays back video preview, while playing back
> > multiple tracks of audio.
> >
>
> Good to hear it worked. ;) I'd say try and do 32 channels
> simultaneously on it though. My friend who owns a recording studio
> downtown uses Mac now because with his G4 he can do 32 channels of
> digital audio simultaneously. He tried to with his PC, but he said it
> couldn't handle it even with ultra SCSI and oodles of memory.

Again I ask: is this because of the PC's ancient architecture?
Specifically the lame-o interrupt system?

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