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Subject:Acid with VMWare fusion? Posted by: buckaroo Date:3/30/2008 1:01:55 PM Is anyone using acid on a mac with bootcamp or vmware fusion? Im about to get a macbook for use with Acid, Soundforge and Vegas, and i think it should be fly, but i have heard that under parralells that the keys change? ie: zoom etc is now in a diff place? - is this the case - anyone successfully using it?
Subject:RE: Acid with VMWare fusion? Reply by: pwppch Date:3/30/2008 7:26:12 PM ACID works fine on a MacBook using BootCamp. It is just like running it on any PC. I have not tried VMWare. It works fine under Parallels, as long as you understand the limitations. No external MIDI i/o. Audio is virtual through Parallels. (I have never had any success using a native Windows ASIO or other driver in Parallels. From all the research I have done, this is just not possible.) This said, for simple editing sessions, Parallels has worked fine for me. YMMV. Peter
Subject:RE: Acid with VMWare fusion? Reply by: buckaroo Date:3/31/2008 12:21:45 AM Thanks Peter, Does anyone have any luck with VMware? I would like another Mac, but also an Acid Soundforge machine, so just checking out my options now that they are Intel
Subject:RE: Acid with VMWare fusion? Reply by: buckaroo Date:3/31/2008 12:26:54 AM Sorry Peter, just to clarify again, after re-reading your post - Bootcamp is the best to go for as its exactly like a PC with respect to same key commands, ASIO etc?
Subject:RE: Acid with VMWare fusion? Reply by: pwppch Date:3/31/2008 1:23:54 PM A BootCamped Intel Mac is a PC. It is running Windows and Windows owns the hardware. (You can actually set up an Intel Mac to be 100% PC with no OSX installed, though this is not for the faint of heart.) I have a MacPro, MacBook Pro, a MacBook, and had a MacMINI. I have run and/or developed ACID/Vegas/Forge on these boxes using BootCamp. All of these machines meet or exceed our min system requirements. Any problems you encounter will be in getting BootCamp set up - which is not something we can help you with. Peter

Subject:Acid with VMWare fusion?

Posted by: buckaroo

Date:3/30/2008 1:01:55 PM

Is anyone using acid on a mac with bootcamp or vmware fusion?

Im about to get a macbook for use with Acid, Soundforge and Vegas, and i think it should be fly, but i have heard that under parralells that the keys change?

ie: zoom etc is now in a diff place? - is this the case - anyone successfully using it?

Subject:RE: Acid with VMWare fusion?

Reply by: pwppch

Date:3/30/2008 7:26:12 PM

ACID works fine on a MacBook using BootCamp. It is just like running it on any PC.

I have not tried VMWare.

It works fine under Parallels, as long as you understand the limitations. No external MIDI i/o. Audio is virtual through Parallels. (I have never had any success using a native Windows ASIO or other driver in Parallels. From all the research I have done, this is just not possible.)

This said, for simple editing sessions, Parallels has worked fine for me. YMMV.

Peter

Subject:RE: Acid with VMWare fusion?

Reply by: buckaroo

Date:3/31/2008 12:21:45 AM

Thanks Peter,

Does anyone have any luck with VMware?

I would like another Mac, but also an Acid Soundforge machine, so just checking out my options now that they are Intel

Subject:RE: Acid with VMWare fusion?

Reply by: buckaroo

Date:3/31/2008 12:26:54 AM

Sorry Peter, just to clarify again, after re-reading your post -

Bootcamp is the best to go for as its exactly like a PC with respect to same key commands, ASIO etc?

Subject:RE: Acid with VMWare fusion?

Reply by: pwppch

Date:3/31/2008 1:23:54 PM

A BootCamped Intel Mac is a PC. It is running Windows and Windows owns the hardware. (You can actually set up an Intel Mac to be 100% PC with no OSX installed, though this is not for the faint of heart.)

I have a MacPro, MacBook Pro, a MacBook, and had a MacMINI. I have run and/or developed ACID/Vegas/Forge on these boxes using BootCamp. All of these machines meet or exceed our min system requirements.

Any problems you encounter will be in getting BootCamp set up - which is not something we can help you with.

Peter