Subject:Anyone know if you can run ACID on a Mac with emulation software????

Posted by: JETT

Date:11/22/1999 10:48:00 PM

Subject:Re: Anyone know if you can run ACID on a Mac with emulation software????

Reply by: pwppch

Date:11/23/1999 9:05:00 PM

We don't support this, but there was a very indepth article on this
in Electronic Musician( or was it Keyboard Mag). They claimed very
good success.

Your milage may vary and you wont get any tech support from us on
this one.

Peter

Subject:Re: Anyone know if you can run ACID on a Mac with emulation software????

Reply by: ommata

Date:11/29/1999 3:05:00 PM

Peter Haller wrote:
>>We don't support this, but there was a very indepth article on this
>>in Electronic Musician( or was it Keyboard Mag). They claimed very
>>good success.
>>
>>Your milage may vary and you wont get any tech support from us on
>>this one.
>>
>>Peter
>>

It was the January 1999 issue of Keyboard. The article was written by
Mitch Gallagher, and he had the best results with SoftWindows. On a
G3 (266 MHz I think), he was able to play back up to 11 stereo tracks
simultaneously. However, he wrote that Acid would take a huge
performance hit whenever he tried to apply any effects. In the June
1999 issue he did a review of a 400 MHz blue and white G3. In the
article, he wrote that Acid's performance was even better, similar to
running on a fast Pentium II. I emailed him about this, and he said
that effects were still a problem. I'm looking to run Acid on a Mac,
so I've been doing a little research. ;-)

Hey Peter! Do you guys have any plans to release any of your products
for the Mac? It seems to me that there's plenty of interest to make
it worth while.

Ken

Subject:Re: Anyone know if you can run ACID on a Mac with emulation software????

Reply by: Vid_Nut

Date:12/6/1999 4:26:00 AM

>>Hey Peter! Do you guys have any plans to release any of your products
>>for the Mac? It seems to me that there's plenty of interest to make
>>it worth while.

Emulation is great for people who absolutely need it, but it's also a
potentially dangerous practice. It certainly doesn't ecourage companies
like Sonic Foundry to develop applications for the Mac that take
advantage of the Mac's inherent strengths (vector processing, etc.).

I'd like to reiterate that I think there's a solid base of Mac
musicians out there that would make it well worth SF's while to develop
for this platform.

I think continued evangelism is one effective way to communicate this
to SF. I am one musician who would definitely put my money where my
keyboard is.

Acid for Macs!

Subject:Re: Anyone know if you can run ACID on a Mac with emulation software????

Reply by: pwppch

Date:12/6/1999 8:24:00 AM

We get asked this all the time. I have been asked by big
studio guys and little studio guys. I always respond the same way...

No, there really are no plans for any of our software to be ported to
the Mac. We are not a Mac house. We do Windows.

While saying never is usually a bad thing, I can say ACID will never
be ported to the Mac. If I am ever proven wrong in the future, so be
it and I will eat crow at that time.

This has nothing to do with not listening to our potential customers,
or any other evil plots by SF and The Evil Emipre (Microsoft) to put
Apple out of business. We just don't do Mac - or BEos, or Linux, or
whatever - software development.

Peter

Ken Wald wrote:
>>
>>
>>Peter Haller wrote:
>>>>We don't support this, but there was a very indepth article on
this
>>>>in Electronic Musician( or was it Keyboard Mag). They claimed
very
>>>>good success.
>>>>
>>>>Your milage may vary and you wont get any tech support from us on
>>>>this one.
>>>>
>>>>Peter
>>>>
>>
>>It was the January 1999 issue of Keyboard. The article was written
by
>>Mitch Gallagher, and he had the best results with SoftWindows. On
a
>>G3 (266 MHz I think), he was able to play back up to 11 stereo
tracks
>>simultaneously. However, he wrote that Acid would take a huge
>>performance hit whenever he tried to apply any effects. In the
June
>>1999 issue he did a review of a 400 MHz blue and white G3. In the
>>article, he wrote that Acid's performance was even better, similar
to
>>running on a fast Pentium II. I emailed him about this, and he
said
>>that effects were still a problem. I'm looking to run Acid on a
Mac,
>>so I've been doing a little research. ;-)
>>
>>Hey Peter! Do you guys have any plans to release any of your
products
>>for the Mac? It seems to me that there's plenty of interest to
make
>>it worth while.
>>
>>Ken

Subject:Re: Anyone know if you can run ACID on a Mac with emulation software????

Reply by: ommata

Date:12/9/1999 2:54:00 PM

Peter Haller wrote:
>> (I wont get into the debate of how bad Windows is or how good all
>> of these other OSes are, so don't bother trying to irritate me.)


Whoa, easy there Peter!!! I was just making a point that there seems
to be significant interest in using Acid on the Mac platform. Enough,
in fact, to make porting it over worth while. I had no intention of
getting into a debate over which OS is superior, let alone irritate
anyone. Macintosh is just my platform of choice, and that seems to be
the case with several other folks that would like to see Acid become
available for the Mac. I must be honest though, it kind of baffles me
that Sonic Foundry doesn't want to capatalize off of this.

Personally, I have no problem buying a Wintel box to run Acid with,
except for one. Right now I'm really just a hobbiest, and I really
can't afford to buy another computer for this. I'm willing to bet I'm
not the only one in this situation.

Thank you for taking the time to address this issue.

Ken

Subject:Re: Anyone know if you can run ACID on a Mac with emulation software????

Reply by: scamper

Date:3/23/2000 12:42:00 PM

Peter Haller wrote:
>>...I can say ACID will never
>>be ported to the Mac... We just don't do Mac - or BEos, or Linux, or
>>whatever - software development.


There are many game companies - some perhaps even smaller than SF - who
don't do Mac development either. And yet their games are available on
the Mac platform. How? They get Mac SW development contractors to do
the work for them. Considering the huge Mac music base out there - both
hobbyist and pro - it may be a financially rewarding endeavor, Mr.
Haller.

Meanwhile, I'm glad that there are companies like Propellerheads out
there!

-scamper