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Subject:Sound Forge 9 on OSX Leopard
Posted by: cyrral
Date:9/24/2009 8:05:13 AM
Even though I've been working on PCs for years, I've just picked up a MacBook Pro with Leopard on it. I do own a Peak Pro 5 license, but have been using Sound Forge on the PC and would prefer to keep using Sound Forge to do my restoration projects. Has anyone had success with running Sound Forge, within a PC-environment, on OSX? I'm using SoundSoap Pro, which is cross-platform. But I would just-as-soon stick with Sound Forge if at all possible. Thanks, LC |
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Subject:RE: Sound Forge 9 on OSX Leopard
Reply by: rraud
Date:9/24/2009 5:06:17 PM
Not me personally, but a few colleagues reportedly run SF-9 on OSX (bootcamp) without any issues. |
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Subject:RE: Sound Forge 9 on OSX Leopard
Reply by: Geoff_Wood
Date:9/25/2009 6:25:46 PM
Why not just try it, and do report back here ! geoff |
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Subject:RE: Sound Forge 9 on OSX Leopard
Reply by: Jace
Date:10/23/2009 10:11:20 PM
if the Mac WORKS with Windows, the question is irrelevant because you're NOT using it on OSX. You're using it on Windows. "Why not just try it, and do report back here !" Do you realize the amount of work involved in setting up bootcamp on a pre-existing machine? Just to test ONE app? If the machine's been used a while, repartitioning cannot be done without defragging. defragging cannot be done with OSX; you have to buy third party tools. i've been through this. then, only to find the trackpad worked like crap in windows on my macbook pro 3,1... Adobe Suite CS4 refused to install... i gave up and wiped the bootcamp windows partition back to full Mac OS X. Waste of time, hard drive thrashing and mental energy. more useful would be Sound Forge 9 on Darwine. i'd like to know if anyone has found SF9 to run well enough to get work done with that setup... also not ideal, but better than repartitioning, installing Windows, etc... |
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Subject:RE: Sound Forge 9 on OSX Leopard
Reply by: Angels
Date:10/24/2009 2:10:44 PM
No need for Bootcamp: I've used SF 9 successfully in XP running in VMware Fusion (virtual machine) on my MBP. Though it takes a couple of minutes to launch Fusion, SF9 runs quite well. I think you can download a limited time demo of Fusion. Parallels 3 on the other hand definitely had a problem (occasional sound glitching), but I haven't tried version 4 which is supposed to be a lot better. Parallels is a little more visually polished IMO, and should also have a downloadable demo. The advantage with a VM is that you don't have to leave the OS X environment and both Fusion and Parallels can window your program so it behaves like an OS X application, but it does use quite a few system resources and takes some time to open and close. The best for speed would be running the system off a SSD... Message last edited on10/24/2009 2:14:53 PM byAngels. |
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Subject:RE: Sound Forge 9 on OSX Leopard
Reply by: Jace
Date:10/24/2009 6:49:47 PM
Great point Angels. My storage problem still persists, though. my MacBooks only have a 120GB (my MacBook Pro 3,1) and 250GB (MacBook Pro 5,5) drive per machine. Either way, licenses are involved. i have a spare due to a dead VAIO, but that's Vista and i think we're all done with Vista now... |