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Subject:acid for mac??? Posted by: kennymathieson Date:10/20/2002 10:01:55 PM is there any chance of there being acid pro for macs? if not, why not? a little help? cheers, kenny.
Subject:RE: acid for mac??? Reply by: Chienworks Date:10/21/2002 12:00:05 AM There isn't a big enough Mac market for a small company like SonicFoundry to be able to afford the resources necessary for development. For that matter, you can buy a very decent refurbished PC and Windows for about the same price as ACID Pro, probably less even. Get one and then you can run all the SonicFoundry software on it.
Subject:RE: acid for mac??? Reply by: coolout Date:10/21/2002 4:10:24 AM i disagree that the mac market is too small for sonic foundry...ask ableton, digidesign, emagic, or m-audio. i always thought SOFO would clean up if they just ported acid pro 3.0 to the mac. Acid was the only thing that made me kinda leave the mac platform. but i did get one of the limited versions of acid 3.0, acid music i think, to run using Virtual PC + win98se on my imac. I did an A+B comparison with a KVM switch to the pc i was using at the time and there was no comparision to the PC. Acid will run on a mac with virtual pc but it has to be a version of acid without the directx effects and you have to have a pretty powerful mac. I seriously doubt 4.0 would run on anything but a new dual processor G4, acid 4.0 is way too intensive. i think sonic foundry's PC system requirements are incorrect and understated. even with acid 3.0 on virtual pc the response is still a bit more slugish and of course you can't use the effects, so you really can't complete a project in virtual pc alone. it's better to pick up a cheap P3 or P4 tower, a KVM switch, a crossover cable, and run all the pc software you want.
Subject:RE: acid for mac??? Reply by: Polaris20 Date:10/21/2002 7:18:51 AM Acid is the only thing keeping me on PC as well. I do not like Windows, never have. I just like Acid 4.0 that much.
Subject:RE: acid for mac??? Reply by: vanblah Date:10/21/2002 9:48:14 AM I don't it's simply that the Mac market is too small ... as Chien said: it's also that Sonic Foundry would have to devote an extensive portion of their budget and development team to getting it to work on the Mac. They are already stretching just to develop enhancements and bugfixes for the current products. In my experience, anytime a company that has been focused primarily on a single platform starts to port to another platform the product starts to degrade.

Subject:acid for mac???

Date:10/20/2002 10:01:55 PM

is there any chance of there being acid pro for macs? if not, why not?

a little help?

cheers,

kenny.

Subject:RE: acid for mac???

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:10/21/2002 12:00:05 AM

There isn't a big enough Mac market for a small company like SonicFoundry to be able to afford the resources necessary for development.

For that matter, you can buy a very decent refurbished PC and Windows for about the same price as ACID Pro, probably less even. Get one and then you can run all the SonicFoundry software on it.

Subject:RE: acid for mac???

Reply by: coolout

Date:10/21/2002 4:10:24 AM

i disagree that the mac market is too small for sonic foundry...ask ableton, digidesign, emagic, or m-audio.

i always thought SOFO would clean up if they just ported acid pro 3.0 to the mac.

Acid was the only thing that made me kinda leave the mac platform.

but i did get one of the limited versions of acid 3.0, acid music i think, to run using Virtual PC + win98se on my imac.

I did an A+B comparison with a KVM switch to the pc i was using at the time and there was no comparision to the PC. Acid will run on a mac with virtual pc but it has to be a version of acid without the directx effects and you have to have a pretty powerful mac.

I seriously doubt 4.0 would run on anything but a new dual processor G4, acid 4.0 is way too intensive. i think sonic foundry's PC system requirements are incorrect and understated.

even with acid 3.0 on virtual pc the response is still a bit more slugish and of course you can't use the effects, so you really can't complete a project in virtual pc alone. it's better to pick up a cheap P3 or P4 tower, a KVM switch, a crossover cable, and run all the pc software you want.

Subject:RE: acid for mac???

Reply by: Polaris20

Date:10/21/2002 7:18:51 AM

Acid is the only thing keeping me on PC as well. I do not like Windows, never have. I just like Acid 4.0 that much.

Subject:RE: acid for mac???

Reply by: vanblah

Date:10/21/2002 9:48:14 AM

I don't it's simply that the Mac market is too small ... as Chien said: it's also that Sonic Foundry would have to devote an extensive portion of their budget and development team to getting it to work on the Mac. They are already stretching just to develop enhancements and bugfixes for the current products. In my experience, anytime a company that has been focused primarily on a single platform starts to port to another platform the product starts to degrade.